STRESSED BROM

Pulis: I’m getting hammered by fans but no one is making me do this job

TONY PULIS says he is getting “slaughtered” and admits every manager has a “shelf life”.

But the under-fire Baggies boss insists his reign is not yet past its sell-by date.

West Brom visit promoted Huddersfield today and another defeat could push Albion fans into open revolt.

They are without a win in eight matches with games against Chelsea and Tottenham to follow.

Albion are still struggling to score with just nine goals in 10 league games, which has been a persistent criticism of Pulis’ reign.

The Welshman, 59, still has a proud record of never being relegated, but mere survival is not enough for many Albion fans who remember earlier swashbuckling sides.

Pulis, in charge since January 2015, said: “When you’re losing, you get slaughtered.

“But I have to accept it, nobody is putting a gun to my head and making me do this job. Society is changing all the time and it is moving further away from when you could go into a football club and you could have five, six, seven years.

“I don’t think that is relevant now. Things move so quickly. It is moving that way and there is a shelf life there for everybody.

“I am not talking about just people at the bottom of the league either. I am talking about people at the top of the league too.

“You saw what happened with Jose Mourinho at Chelsea – winning the title and a few months later leaving the football club.

“Nobody thought that would happen, but that is the way it is.

“I don’t think you will see anything like Sir

Alex Ferguson at United for 27 years. Arsene Wenger will be the last one to do that.”

Pulis believes Albion’s fortunes will improve when record-signing Nacer Chadli and new boy Oliver Burke get fully fit.

He says victory today to leave Albion on 13 points from 11 games would constitute a satisfactory start. He knows Albion need a win soon to ensure players do not lose belief or confidence. But Pulis insisted: “I don’t think the performances have been that bad, no one has given us a hiding.

“We’ve shot ourselves in the foot more than anything else.”