Grateful Grant hails Pompey stars

FROM Mick McCarthy there was humour, from Avram Grant heartfelt passion.

Such is the difference in the way fate has bestowed its favours on these two managers in the Premier League basement.

Wolves boss McCarthy, his team secure for another term in the top flight, grinned wryly as he said: “People keep telling me about second-season syndrome. I wouldn’t know. I’ve never had one.”