Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce has confessed he could face the sack if he is unable to orchestrate a turnaround in results.
Pearce's side have slipped down the Premiership table in recent weeks and now sit just one place outside the relegation zone.
City are without a win in the league since the start of January and Pearce knows his future is in doubt unless results improve soon.
"The fact that fans are questioning my future is all part of football management," Pearce said in the Daily Mail.
"If your team get beat, then you blame the manager and I have got to do something about it for next weekend.
"If we don't win enough matches I am a big boy and know exactly what is out there in front of me.
"It's a passionate game and fans are disappointed that we got beat, but not half as disappointed as me.
"There are plenty of clubs in an identical situation to us and they are all thinking the same thing. If we get beaten 1-0 at home and people have a moan, then that's fine. I've had a moan as well."
Pearce is refusing to put the blame onto his players, who have not been performing lately.
He added: "I don't feel let down. Sometimes I'm disappointed with their performance, as I am with my own performance.
"But sometimes I'm not. I don't feel as though players have let me down on purpose."
Wonders if he will stay...
Pearce won't walk away
Under-fire Manchester City boss Stuart Pearce says he has no plans to walk away from his Eastlands job.
Four consecutive Premiership defeats sees the side hovering just above the drop zone, although City do have two games in hand over Charlton.
However, City fans are less than pleased with progress on the pitch and even staged a mini-demonstration following last weekend's loss to Wigan.
Pearce though believes in his squad and is predicting a reaction from his struggling troops.
"Why should I [walk away]?" he told the Manchester Evening News. "This is one of the biggest clubs in the country.
"If I had spent £50million, £60million or £70million putting talent on the pitch and it wasn't happening then I might say to myself `Hang on a minute son, you haven't done it'. But I haven't.
"At this club, over the last two years, there have been a lot of things right and a few things wrong.
"We know what the shortcomings are. This season they are there for all to see. I don't fear the sack because I know the players will respond.
"It is important that - no matter what my future is at City - the baby doesn't go out with the bath water."
Meanwhile, Pearce has filled the void vacated by Frankie Bunn by naming former Swansea boss Kenny Jackett as their new reserve team coach.
Jackett, who spent three years in charge of The Swans, had been out of work since leaving the Welsh outfit three months ago.
he should just resign from the england under 21 job