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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that Gold and Suillivan are shrewd businessmen. They may not be great football club owners, but they sure know how to manipulate their position as one.

This was obvious in their campaign to buy the club (well a percentage stake anyway) otherwise how else would they beat out much richer competitors? Again they proved their mettle as businessmen by the way they handled the Zola departure without being fully out of pocket.

Now with this much touted, must win game coming up this Saturday against Wigan, the two Davids have lined up their chess pieces for a win win situation for them.

Consider this. Grant is not performing as the coach/manager of our team. The feeling among most of us is that any change is better than this. We already have our savior in mind, and if the worst case scenario happens and we go down this season, I’d rather go down fighting with our hearts on our sleeves with Paulo at the helm, than cough and splutter towards impending doom with Grant.

I can imagine that even if Paulo is not in the thoughts of Gollivan, then another replacement has already been discussed, even if it is just a backup plan. So what better way to save millions in a severance payment than to embarrass old toad face into resigning if things don’t go well this Saturday.

How will they do this? Well, have as a guest of honour the person the majority of the supporters want to replace him.

If we’re not convincingly leading by the time the twenty minute mark comes, then Paulo’s name will be reverberating around the Boleyn Ground, while Grant sits in the dugout wishing a bigger hole than the one we’re in opens up and swallows him; all this while Paulo watches on from his own Suite 50 feet above him.

If we don’t win convincingly, you can imagine Gold and Sullivan will be pressurizing Grant to resign, with the boos still ringing in his ears, and Paulo’s name following him down the tunnel.

I’m not a great fan of Gold and Sullivan for the simple reason they meddle in football affairs. I’d have more respect for them if they stuck to what they are, astute businessmen. But I have to take my hat off to them with the set up this Saturday.

If they were truly behind Avram, they would have politely postponed Paulo’s visit to Upton Park for the time being, but they are who they are.

And even though I would keep Avram for at least another game in exchange for us getting 3 points this weekend, if we fail to achieve that, well, Machiavelli eat your heart out!

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