WEST HAM manager Manuel Pellegrini is rumoured to be holding onto his job by a thread after Monday night’s comprehensive collapse in front of an increasingly exasperated home support at the London Stadium.
The fans’ growing anger was evidenced by a more than half empty stadium by the final whistle. The boos rang out from those who were left, as they had done earlier when Filipe Anderson, arguably West Ham’s most threatening attacker on the night, was substituted.
Pellegrini felt his team competed well for the first hour but then it all went wrong.
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