Pearce 8/1 To Be Out By Weekend

Under pressure Manchester City boss Stuart Pearce is 8/1 with William Hill no longer to be City boss by kick-off time of their weekend game against Middlesbro.

Pearce is already odds-on favourite to be the next Premiership manager to leave his club this season following Manchester City's Cup defeat by Blackburn, with William Hill making him 5/6 to be the next to go this campaign and also offering odds of 7/1 Curbishley; 25/1 Pardew; 40/1 Boothroyd.

They also offer 11/10 that no more managers will leave their club this season.

But with City facing Chelsea in midweek, a game which they are 11/2 outsiders to win, with Chelsea 4/9 and the draw 13/5, William Hill are offering 8/1 that the City manager will have departed before they play Boro.

"Pearce is a proud man and a heavy defeat at home, even to the champions, would be bound to produce critical crowd reaction which could make him decide to walk away or prompt his sacking" said William Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe.