Reds pile pressure on gonner Grant

IT IS the by-product of such a bizarre Premier League campaign that no sooner has momentum arrived, it disappears.

West Ham are the only side to have shown any real consistency and if their miserable run of one win in 14 Premier League matches is extended beyond next weekend’s home game against Wigan, Avram Grant will surely be the first top-flight manager to lose his job this season.

If West Ham’s players looked defeated, their fans took it another step, calling for Grant to be dismissed and ridiculing their manager, calling him “utter class”, then asking him for a wave, then pointedly singing the name of Paolo Di Canio, seven days after Roy Hodgson was baited with songs about Kenny Dalglish.