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ALAN Curbishley may have gone but he got the backing of Liverpool legend Ian Rush when he visited Canary Wharf this week.

Rush had every sympathy with the plight endured by Curbishley towards the end of his reign at Upton Park, having endured a similar experience when in charge of Chester City in 2004/05.

"You get told what to do," he said. "The average span of managers now is getting less and less. Look at Alex Ferguson, it was five years before he won anything but there's no chance of that happening again.

"It's instant success that's needed, because that's the pressure they put on people now. You've got to be an instant success or you're out."