Portsmouth set to field weakened side against Hull in response to nine point penalty

Portsmouth manager Avram Grant is ready to stick two fingers up to the Premier League by fielding a deliberately weakened team against Hull tomorrow.

Pompey became the first team in Premier League history to be deducted nine points for entering administration earlier this week.

Angry Grant claims all focus at Fratton Park is on next month's FA Cup semi-final and he will hold a meeting with his players today to discuss how to play out the remainder of their league fixtures.

Grant fumed: "It will be a democratic meeting but we will go with my decision in the end - I cannot say what my team will be.

"What we do next I will tell you after I have spoken to the players. I want to know what their opinions are from what we do from now on.

"We do not have a duty to the other clubs in the Premier League, the Premier League has a duty to those clubs but we only have a duty to ourselves.

"I think the Premier League are embarrassed by Portsmouth but I think they need to check the rules about who can buy a club and who cannot.

"The writing was on the wall a long time ago and for me it is a sad day. It is a sad day for Portsmouth Football Club and for the Premier League.

"The Premier League is the best league in the world but for the first time in its history a football decision has been made not on the pitch but in some office.

"This is wrong, this is not good. I said we would fight against everything as long as we had a chance, now I do not know.

"All the time that we believed we could stay up we had something to fight for, and it is always easier when you have a target to aim for.

"Our target now is the semi-final and I am trying to win that."

Grant has refused to commit his future to Pompey beyond this summer are growing frustrated at the lies and broken promises behind the scenes on the south coast.

The former Chelsea boss turned down an approach this week from tomorrow's opponents Hull to become their new manager.

Grant added: "It is difficult to know what to do from here because this is not a situation that has happened before.

"I cannot ring Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger and ask what they did in this situation.

"I have a contract until 2012 but I have a clause, even with the contract, I can leave.

"I do not want to speak about whether I was or was not approached, Hull have a new manager and I wish him every success."