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Few Premiership chairmen are facing more questions than West Ham's Terence Brown, as Darron Kirkby explains
The only thing that West Ham fans can agree on at present is that the club is in crisis. Without a home win in the league this season – a run of 12 games including defeats by West Brom and Birmingham – and with only an FA Cup victory since October 22, becoming the first side in Premiership history to be bottom at Christmas and avoid relegation is looking an increasingly tall order.
Bolton Chairman Phil Gartside tells Andy Lyons how his club is ready for anything
"We have a plan for various eventualities, such as whether we stay up or go down. If the worst came to the worst we could reduce our wages significantly. We haven’t really looked at other clubs who have gone down as case studies of what not to do because we’ve been up to the Premier League and relegated twice before, so we’ve had the experience. It might be possible to do things like increase the parachute payments to relegated clubs, but the rules are the rules and you have to plan around them.
Martin Edwards' unpopular reign at Old Trafford is reassessed by Ashley Shaw, putting forward another side of the argument
Martin Edwards is a misunderstood figure. The well publicised attempts to sell his controlling interest in Manchester United have clouded supporters’ judgements of the progress made at the club under his chairmanship. Fans consistently forget his key role in establishing the club as the dominant economic power in British football, making Manchester United a respected name from the City to the Champions League.
Having a bad season? Worried that things couldn't be much worse? Cheer yourself up with some schadenfreude as Chris Lynham looks back on Gillingham's darkest hour
In 1993, Gillingham celebrated 100 years of chronic underachievement with a campaign so inept it even failed to meet the very limited expectations of our band of world-weary supporters. Having put up with five years of steady decline, we could all cope with the boredom of inoffensively squatting in the lower half of the old Fourth Division, but the eternal agony of the 1992-93 season was a step too far.
Arsenal have a new business venture. Al Needham has a go at Arsenal Monopoly
Monopoly is a board game that extols the virtues of avarice, greed and personal gain to the detriment of everyone else. “The game reflects the essence and spirit of Arsenal football club,” says a spokesman for the makers of Monopoly, who have launched a new version of the Sunday afternoon pursuit of driving other members of the family into bankruptcy with the help of a couple of dice and a Get Out Of Jail card.