Pompey on the brink

Fratton Park boss 'sad' for everybody at crisis-club

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An emotional Avram Grant has 'more or less' been told that debt-ridden Portsmouth will go into administration on Friday.

The Fratton Park outfit have been in off-field disarray for the majority of the season, while also sitting bottom of the Premier League, and Balram Chainrai, the club's fourth owner since last summer, has been attempting to find a new buyer.

Pompey have been fighting to win a race against time ahead of a potential High Court winding-up order on Monday and Chainrai admitted the club would accept administration on Friday in order to avoid that conclusion.

A South African consortium was thought to be close to a deal, but an agreement appears to have stalled and Portsmouth manager Grant is as good as resigned to that fact.

Asked if he had been told that the club was going into administration, which carries a nine-point league penalty, he told Sky Sports News: "More or less."

When pushed on the subject of a potential new buyer, Grant said: "I don't know. The finances, I don't know anything about."

"Of course," he said when told that he looked upset. "You can imagine.

"We did a football job and every step we couldn't do our job. I am very sad for me and for everybody."

Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has already begun talks with an administrator ahead of Friday's deadline.

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