Albert Cartier's Grenats sit in
20th position in the league, and find themselves 11 points of FC Lorient in 17th place.
Not exact matches
The Midlands club currently sit
in 20th position in the Premier
League and are an astonishing twelve points adrift from safety.
Yet, despite seeing their starting field
position improve from the 23 - yard line to the 24 - yard line, their advantage fell from being tops
in the
league (by a wide margin) to being
20th — and one of the 25 teams that would have been better off always taking a knee.
Brighton & Hove Albion managed to stay alive
in the English
League Championship as the team of Chris Hughtonfinished the season at the
20th position and barely avoided the bottom relegation spots.
Fortunately for Grant, West Ham's next three matches are all very much winnable, but with the team currently stranded
in 20th position and four points adrift of safety, and with the January transfer window looming large and the board eager to bolster their ranks as soon as, you get the impression that even if Grant could mastermind one win over either Blackburn, Fulham or Everton he would still face the axe considering three points from a possible nine would still leave the club rooted to the bottom of the
league and still
in the same old sticky situation as before, just with less games to dig themselves out of the trench they find themselves
in, although it looks as though Grant is the one who will be buried alive.
Indeed, almost half of the top 30 richest clubs are now made up of Premier
League sides and that figure is likely to increase; Newcastle United and Everton have appeared at the top of the list for the first time,
in 19th and
20th position respectively.