The Irons boss was widely expected to lose his job on Saturday night, regardless of the result, with Martin O'Neill ready to step in to try to retain their Premier League status. Arsenal, who moved to within two points of top spot, showed the Israeli's team no mercy as goals from Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott put them in command at half-time, before the Dutchman wrapped things up with a penalty on 77 minutes. Despite having guided the east London club into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup, where they beat Birmingham here in midweek to move within 90 minutes of Wembley, the patience of owners David Gold and David Sullivan - who only appointed Grant during the summer - appears to have run out. While the club were officially making no comment, Grant's public spat with vice-chairman Karren Brady over the collapse of Steve Sidwell's proposed transfer having appeared to have brought matters to a head. Grant went on the defensive when the issue of his future was raised. He said: "Why do you ask me this question? Where was these reports? "You know who gave you the rumours. Ask the person, not ask me. "When I will give you something, ask me." At the final whistle, the Israeli shook hands with his players as they left the pitch, before applauding the fans and throwing his claret and blue scarf into the stands in what appeared to be a farewell gesture. However, Grant maintained: "I have done this at the last few games, throw my scarf to the children who are there. "Today it was emotional to see the reaction of the supporters after the game, we had lost 3-0 and they were so supportive. "It was touching to see this, so I did what I did. You need to respect the supporters, that is what I did." Grant vowed to continue in his position until told otherwise. He said: "I live my life to do my job, but I cannot say it has helped. Still, I need to do my job, that is what is important. "I understand, but there has not been one question about the game. "You can ask me only about information I give you, and what I can say is I am very happy with the boys today. "It is not often when you lose that you are happy, but we were without so many players and against a very good team, they gave everything. "The effort was great from the players, and that was important for me." Grant added: "You know what has happened at the club, it was not at a good situation and it is my job to make the club better. "Even though we are at the bottom, what we have done in the last few weeks is the right things. "We have a lot of injuries, but still we are close to escape from relegation. "There is not a lot of difference in the points at the bottom. "When we can do things right on and off the pitch, it will give us more points and that is what is important." While West Ham are deep in trouble, Arsenal remain very much in the hunt for the title as they finally produced a complete passing display to bounce back from the disappointment of their midweek Carling Cup defeat at Ipswich. Gunners boss Arsene Wenger said: "It became pretty comprehensive. We had a good, mature performance today. "We are on a very strong run in the Premier League because we beat Chelsea, won twice 3-0 away from home and a convincing nil-nil against Man City at home. "So overall we are on a strong run. I said many times that the Premier League will be exciting and interesting until the end." Wenger continued: "It is in our hands, we play all of the big teams at home and we have a strong run at home now. "Tomorrow we have many big games, but we have done the job today, so we can watch them in a relaxed way a little bit. "We are very interested in one because it is a big test for Tottenham and Manchester United tomorrow." On the rumours over Grant, Wenger said: "There is all this speculation about the job, it can unsettle because your words maybe have less power and your environment is a bit unsettled. It doesn't help, that is for sure. "I have big sympathy for Avram Grant. I don't think it affects him at all, but you don't know how much it affects your environment. "Our job is difficult enough not to put some more on your back. It's difficult enough without problems of that sort."
