Alright, Jack?

Northampton 1 KENNY JACKETT believes he can turn around Portsmouth’s fortunes.

Ryan Watson scored two while Fraser Horsfall and Sam Hoskins also netted for Northampton.

Portsmouth grabbed a consolation through Ellis Harrison, but have only won one of their last six matches. Jackett said: “The goals are very disappointing.

“We’re obviously very disappointed and we need to compete in games. Every manager is under pressure and when you’re 4-0 down at half-time, that comes with the territory. They are a good

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group and want to do well and turn it around.”

Caretaker Northampton boss Jon Brady said: “I’m delighted. The boys worked extremely hard and they got their rewards for it, especially in the first half.

“You can see from the organisation out there that the players have clarity in their roles and responsibilities. We’re closing off spaces and we’re not letting teams break us down.

“It’s important to be out of the bottom four, but we’re nowhere near out of the danger zone and we need to keep working.”

STEVEN GERRARD can now consider himself officially part of the managerial elite.

Why? He can show foulmouthed disrespect for the authority of a referee and hardly get a word of censure.

Gerrard served a one-match touchline ban yesterday but the general reaction to his berating of John Beaton during Rangers’ win over Livingston was a shrug of the shoulders.

Some even thought it amusing, some thought it showed the passion of a manager who could wrap up the title a month before Easter.

Gerrard (above) was on the pitch at half-time, complaining that Alfredo Morelos – a player with over 40 yellow cards and seven red cards in less than four seasons in Scotland – had been unfairly booked for simulation.

Pointing at Beaton, Gerrard shouted: “... you’re f ***** g bang wrong. You’re bang out order.”

Whether Beaton had erred or not – and Morelos has form for diving – is irrelevant. That a hearing rescinded Morelos’ caution is also irrelevant.

Beaton is the referee and should be guaranteed a safe and uninhibited passage to the dressing room.

The sooner authorities show a bit of backbone and BAN managers from going on to the pitch to confront refs the better.

Because there was only one person who was ‘f ***** g bang wrong’ and ‘bang out order’ in this case – and that was Steven Gerrard.