Adams facing the axe from Portsmouth — reports

Tony Adams’ future at Fratton Park was under scrunity again Monday amid media reports that the Portsmouth manager is facing the axe, after less than four months in charge.

The Telegraph and the Daily Mail newspapers reported that the former Arsenal and England defender would be sacked later Monday, and the Sun claimed the decision had already been taken.

Portsmouth have been in freefall since Adams replaced Harry Redknapp, who took over at Tottenham earlier this season.

The team has managed just two wins in 15 league games since he took charge on October 28, and has slid to within one point of the relegation zone.

The Sun reported a source saying that chief executive Peter Storrie broke the news to Adams on Sunday afternoon, and it came as “a complete suprise to him as he had previously been told he was safe until the end of the season”.

After Portsmouth’s 3-2 defeat to Liverpool on Saturday, Adams had appeared confident about his future, saying: “We have got a third of the season to go and have to play the teams around us so we are not too downhearted.”