Cris Freddi looks at how Glenn Hoddle's predecessors have coped with the press
The rough ride Glenn Hoddle’s been getting from the fourth estate isn’t unusual (every other England manager had it) but the timing of it is. Most of the others were granted the luxury of a honeymoon period.
Someone may have written a worse book than Glenn Hoddle's Diary but Harry Pearson won't believe it until he sees it
The Hoddle book. A betrayal of trust; a gross error of judgement; an action in which personal gain has been put ahead of the public interest. Yes, there’s no doubt about it, by charging £17.99 for 236 pages of this mind-numbing rubbish Andre Deutsch really have brought the English publishing game into disrepute.
The annual statement of football's accounts does not make good reading for fans of Nationwide clubs. Patrick Harverson looks at the numbers
Ask most fans how they think the European commission’s 1995 Bosman ruling, which allowed out-of-contract players to move clubs on free transfers, has most changed domestic football and they will talk of the hundreds of foreign players who make a living in England today.
Neil Reynolds finds out more about the Baggies' visionary chairman
Distinguishing Features Fiftyish, with dark hair and a light moustache which gives the impression that one or other is false; they’re not.
The prospect of fresh investment being pumped into your club fills every fan with excitment, but Frank Plowright knows that this new money comes at a cost
It is the wish of every supporter to see more money funnelled into their team, more so in Scotland where clubs in declining industrial communities struggle for support as each week hundreds from their area head for Ibrox or Parkhead.