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.

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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.

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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.

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Prime Minister Robert has relatives in high places and, as Tom de Castella explains, nephew Leo has presided over a sharp decline in Zimbabwe's domestic football

Earlier this season Peter Ndlovu returned from a family funeral in Zimbabwe two hours before his club, Sheffield United, were due to take on Rotherham United in the First Division. Ndlovu came off the bench to score the game’s only goal. Whatever issues preoccupied him on the trip home to a country facing political meltdown and desperate food shortages, they were not enough to distract him in the midst of a south Yorkshire derby.

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Leroy Rosenior is settling in well as the far south-west's latest black manager, but Nick House is puzzled by the route that took the former striker to Plainmoor

It’s fair to say Leroy Rosenior’s appointment as Torquay United’s first-team coach – manager in old money – met with some scepticism. The concern was simple yet forceful: was he any good? Reports from travellers were decidedly mixed: acclaimed as part of a trio at Bristol City; steady at Gloucester; hardly a suc­cess at Merthyr

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