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Ian Ladyman explains why Nottingham Forest have found themselves incapable of breaching the growing gap between the Premier League and the First Division
Looking back on what is likely to be a short stay in the Premiership, Nottingham Forest fans will wonder just when it all went wrong for their floundering club. They will have to look back further than this season to find the answers.
Padraig McKenna charts the moves in the botched takeover and flotation of Forest which have left the club in such a parlous state.
In autumn 1996 Nottingham Forest were approaching a crisis. Brian Clough was gone and we had already, briefly, dropped down into the First Division. The club was surviving largely due to the willingness of the banks to increase the overdraft regularly.
The Premier League is currently the least of Queen of the South’s worries. Jim Rutherford reports
IT'S A RARE DAY when Queen of the South steal the headlines in the Scottish press. But the Dumfries outfit enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame recently. Unfortunately, it came for all the wrong reasons as the club found themselves splashed all over the tabloids because of their manager’s marital problems.
Martin Brodetsky explains how a failed stadium scheme has pushed a club on the fringe of elite towards destruction
On Wednesday November 25th over 700 people crammed into Oxford Town Hall to attend a meeting organised by the pressure group FOUL (Fighting for Oxford United’s Life). The group was formed in November in response to the club’s dire situation: £13.5 million in debt; losing about £12,000 each week; a half-built stadium rusting away on the city outskirts (see WSC 140); and facing imminent receivership.
Steven Morgan explores the financial depths to which Portsmouth have sunk
As Christmas presents go, it was like finally unwrapping something you’d asked for two years ago. Still, better late than never. Chairman Martin Gregory’s decision to quit Portsmouth on December 18th had been the top item on every fan’s festive wish list, such was the crippling financial damage wreaked during his three-year stint in charge.