We won't be the last warns Grant
Avram Grant
Friday March 19 2010
Avram Grant has warned the Premier League that Portsmouth will not be the last top-flight club to go into administration.
Pompey's nine-point deduction has all but relegated the club and Grant will meet with his squad before deciding how to tackle the remainder of the season, with suggestions they may be ready to field a weakened side in protest.
The experienced Israeli coach, 54, admits he is in uncharted territory, but is in no doubt other clubs will suffer the same fate, and said: "It will not be the last time. There are other teams in debt. What will they do with them?"
He added: "The Premier League need to check their rules about who can buy a football club, because sometimes when you point the finger at someone else, you need to ask what did you did wrong."
Pompey now have just 10 points, 14 behind second-from-bottom Hull whom they face at Fratton Park on Saturday.
By then, Grant will have gauged the mood in the squad, which still has an FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley to look forward to but may lack motivation for what are essentially meaningless matches with the players perhaps contemplating their own futures elsewhere next season.
"I will talk with the players about it and we will make a decision and go from there," Grant said. "It is not easy because we still believed that, even with all the difficulties, we could fight against relegation, because Portsmouth did that a few years ago.
"Now we need to think about everything. Football needs to be decided on the pitch.
"You need to give all of the teams an equal chance, which we did not have in this case.
"The decision was taken a long time ago Portsmouth would not stay in the Premier League, for one reason or another."
