ELBOW? IT IS WORSE IN GREECE SAYS SILVA

WATFORD managers are not renowned for job security, but Marco Silva claims the sacking culture is even worse in Greece.

Silva (above) takes his unbeaten Hornets to St Mary’s refusing to discuss whether he was courted by Southampton in the summer as a potential replacement for Claude Puel – but relieved he is not among the earlyseason favourites in the sack race.

The Portugese head coach was also on Crystal Palace’s hit-list, but the Eagles made their move too late and Frank de Boer is already in the firing line after just three games in charge at Selhurst Park.

Silva, who previously managed Olympiakos in Greece and Sporting Lisbon in his native city, is the ninth manager in five years at Vicarage Road, but he said: “It’s football – in Greece it is always worse and in Portugal it is more or less the same.

“It’s our life, the life of a manager. You need to prove something day by day, game by game.

“Of course it’s important that we believe in our ideas and convince our players to believe in them too.

“Everything is not happy in the world when you get one good result, but if you don’t achieve you have to continue your work and do something different.

“It is not perfect, but we all know in football there is pressure when you don’t achieve results.”

Silva has read the riot act to Watford about discipline after two red cards in their last two games, with Jose Holebas and Miguel Britos making the walk of shame.

Holebas returns from his one-match ban at Southampton today and Silva observed: “I don’t want to talk too much about different situations, but I hope we finish every match with 11 players from now on. With 11 it is difficult, but with 10 it is something else.

“Our players know I want aggression, with and without the ball, but in the right way – not like we did in the last match.”