Reviews from When Saturday Comes. Follow the link to buy the book from Amazon.
Coventry City's first ever relegation will cost them on and off the pitch, writes Neville Hadsley
For Coventry City fans, relegation is a new and strange experience. It is the first time City have been relegated from any division since 1958. Even that was more of a reshuffle as Divisions Three North and South became Divisions Three and Four. In fact it is the first time Coventry have finished in the bottom two of any league since 1952.
Howard Borrell, spokesman for Chesterfield Football Supporters Society, explains how his supporters trust is vital to the survival of their club
Chesterfield is now owned by a Supporters Trust, which has inherited a mess. A cash surplus has been turned into a £1.6 million debt – the creditors ranged from the tax man to a local sandwich shop – including £650,000 of football-related debt. The club is in administration. In a few weeks, we must convince the courts we have the ability to turn it around. But before then, we must fight the motion brought by a group of Third Division chairman to expel us from the League.
QPR aren't just coming to terms with the cost of relegation – there are stories behind the scenes too. Anthony Hobbs reveals all
The last time Queens Park Rangers were relegated, from the Premiership five years ago, things were very simple. We had a rich chairman with no real interest in football, who was completely unwilling to spend his own money, but content to realise the capital of our most liquid assets (ie sell our best players). In the five years leading up to our latest 40-point season, things have been bit a little less clear cut. This season in particular, it’s felt a little like being on a boat that hasn’t been properly tied up. We’ve just been gradually drifting away and nobody quite knows what to do about it.
Karl D Pridmore explains how the board at Nottingham Forest tried to change a football club into a public company in 1997
In April the financial future of Nottingham Forest was decided in the High Court, to almost complete indifference in the national press. It’s a complicated tale, but one with important implications for other clubs and, for Forest, a more or less happy ending.
The Football League's verdict on charges of financial irregularities against Chesterfield has thrown the Third Division into confusion. Hartlepool fan Ed Parkinson is among those left unimpressed
In a confusingly dishonest world full of spin, deceit and greed it is usually possible to gain some respite by indulging an obsession with lower division football, a reasonably plain-speaking sporting backwater still dominated by traditionalists and mercifully free of prawn sandwiches. The recent events involving Chesterfield would suggest that this rare pool of comparative sanity is in danger.