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Despite the “Sacked in the morning ” singing emanating from his own team’s supporters after the mediocre display at Vicarage Road, West Ham’s manager will feel pretty secure just now as the boardroom remains in chaos after one cycle of the shareholder pre-emptive rights options comes to an end. Until the outcome is known, his bosses will be pre-occupied with a power struggle for shares in a rapidly devaluing football club now nineteenth in the second tier, and the last thing they’ll be able to agree on is the firing and hiring of a successor. Nuno did represent the figurehead of ‘stability’ whilst all upstairs was in limbo this summer but he’s come to signify all that was bad about last year instead. There were promising signs from his team selection yesterday: Few would argue with the team or set up deployed but it was the ultra cautious style and the early conceding of another goal that put his mediocre opponents in the driving seat. Espírito Santo himself is clear that pressure goes with the job and that he doesn’t resent the fanbase for their loud voices of discontent: “The fans are the most important part of our club and I respect them so much. I understand everything, I respect every opinion….Pressure is on us every day. We are a big club and we are favourites to go up. We have two points from three games, so who’s happy? He’d better take a look in his calendar: There’s an international break conveniently situated just a few weeks ahead with games to come before against Wolves, Derby, Bolton, Wrexham and Millwall all before the 20th September break. If he hasn’t got the Hammers winning before then, likely the boardroom battle will be sorted next month and he’ll find himself having to answer personally for his team’s shocking start to the season.