ALAN CURBISHLEY is the manager suffering most under the stress of eviction from the Premiership this season, according to Big Brother's body language expert.
Judi James studied recent post-match interviews with all six bosses facing the drop to analyse their behaviour under the pressure of the media spotlight.
Each of the bottom six managers had different degrees of success in hiding their real emotions for the cameras.
But James, author of a new book about how to control body language to win at poker, reckoned the West Ham boss was the manager looking like rolex submariner he was holding a losing hand.
"I would definitely say Alan Curbishley is the manager the most in trouble," James said.
"His body language is so complex and goes to so many extremes. One minute he has got his chin up which is defiant.
"The next he is sucking his lips in which is the signal of disgust. Verbally he is trying to be quite bland and cover things up but his body language is the most troubling.
"That would hint there is a real minefield going on behind the scenes and he looks like he has pretty much had enough of it.
"I am not saying he is going to quit but he looked like he would quite happily walk out if he could. He genuinely looked like he had had enough. That if you poked him with your little finger, he might explode and tell you how he really feels. It was oozing out through his body language.
"Sadly that is probably leaking out to the players as well. They would sense that from his body language."
Curbishley, who kept his arms tightly folded throughout his press conference yesterday, defended his body language.
"I saw Steve Coppell barely smile louis vuitton Monogram Vernis when Gunnarsson hit the bar in the last minute against Man United to get back in the game," he said. "Everyone is different. I don't think people expect me to be happy when I have won one game in 11. It affects everybody.
"Since I have been a manager - and I have done 15 years - I try to keep it on an even keel. I have tried not to let my highs be too high and my lows not too low. Some people can be different but that is the way I am.
"It is one thing the way you are perceived, but another thing what you do and how you go about your job. I am not going to do anything to change. Around the training ground I have been my normal self, the same as when I was winning at Charlton, so nothing has been that different." James insists the public performance of the club's most important employee is crucial to the team's morale.
"It is 300 per cent important," she said. "Football managers are the modern-day equivalent of wartime leaders. The team take their strength from when they see their leader appearing on the screen.
"They see their leader like we saw Churchill during the war. You hang on their body language to see how you are doing - it can motivate or de-motivate you.
"They have the power to make a team give up or drag the best out of them. And there are huge differences between them - I thought they would all be the same."
James said managers tried to hide their real emotions by deploying two techniques:
1. Dog facing - they try to close down all body language so they do not give too much
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