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• Nickname:Pompey
• Founded:1898
• Manager:Michael Appleton

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Grant still unsure over future

28 Feb 2010 - 10:42:09

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Portsmouth manager Avram Grant admitted that he was greatly saddened by the club's off-field plight, following a 2-1 victory at fellow strugglers Burnley.

Goals from Frederic Piquionne and Hassan Yebda gave Pompey the points in East Lancashire, a day after the club were forced to go into administration to avoid a winding-up order.

Grant said after the Turf Moor success: "I'm very proud to be part of the football side of the club, but I'm very disappointed and very sad about what has happened on the other side, because it is not football.

"I'm a football manager and I want to deal with football problems, I don't want to deal with other problems.

"Of course I could never have predicted what has happened, not even in my dreams.

"I thought we had a position on the pitch we could handle, that we could do something.

"But then I started to doubt the situation when 100 per cent of the things I was promised didn't come and then it became worse and worse and then administration.

"Now I don't know what will happen tomorrow, never mind next season.

"I cannot promise anything, other than as long as I am here then I will fight for the city and the club because it's the right thing to do.

"But I'm not thinking about myself right now. If I think I need to walk away, then I will do it.

"But if I was going to walk away I would have done it in January when everything that should have happened didn't and then things became even worse."