Preston chairman has wasted no time in stamping his authority in club, sacking the club's manager Phil Brown barely a week in the job.
Brown took over the Lancashire club last January and was immediately plunged into a relegation battle.
Those who bet on the Championship certainly fancied Brown's men to lose their fight against the drop, which they duly did, given the desperate nature of the situation it did not reflect poorly on Brown.

Manager's moaning about referee's is nothing new, it has always gone and probably will always go on. But Kenny Dalglish took things to another level by playing a DVD during his weekly press conference to point out examples of where his club were hard done by against Fulham last Monday.
The game, which the Red eventually lost 1-0, also landed Liverpool in trouble with the FA after Luis Suarez was charge after giving the Fulham fans the finger, while the club was charged for failing to control their players after they surrounded referee Kevin Friend following Jay Spearing's dismissal.

So Steve Kean at least avoided the ignominy of becoming the Premier League's first coach to be sacked thi season. Poor old Steve Bruce has taken that title for him.
But with Rovers propping up the rest of the division and slung out of the Carling Cup by Cardiff in midweek, most managers in Kean's position would be nervously awaiting a phone call from the chairman.

"I don't agree [that I need help.] I don't solve problems on my own; I solve problems with my group of people and my group of players.
Says Andre Villas-Boas, who apparently is already under pressure in his role as Chelsea manager.
True, they face a fight to stay in the Champions League and the premier league odds have drifted to 14/1, but it is still a ludicrous suggestion, but one that is symptomatic of the Abramovich era at Stamford Bridge.

Mike Ashley certainly has an impeccable sense of timing. Whenever Newcastle are going well the club's owner always seems to cause unnecessary disruption and incur further wrath from the supporters.
His latest act is to rename the club's home – St James' Park – the Sports Direct Arena, after his own company.

It cannot be denied that Leicester's current position of 13th is not really good enough for a club that spent in excess of £15million over the summer and has the highest wage bill in the Championship.
But in what remains an immensely truncated division, the Foxes are just three points off fifth place and only a further four off the automatic promotion places.

A mid-season tour of India was supposed to provide SteveKean with a bit of relief from the storm brewing among the terraces at EwoodPark.
Instead it has merely fuelled the fires, with a ‘Kean out'banner somehow making the journey to Asia with him and unfurled during afriendly and a third supporter protest planned upon his return.

Premier League footballers and their mis-use of Twitter is rapidly becoming the primary source of news and entertainment for journalists and fans alike.
Free from the oppressive, bland media-trained arena of post-match press rooms, the modern day player on the internet is worryingly loose cannon for managers, with supporters and journos waiting on every tweet.

For those looking in on England's progress over the past decade, it is clear that both supporters and media oscillate wildly from boundless optimism to the depths of despair.
The Three Lions are either World-beaters or a bunch of over-paid prima donnas not worthy of the shirt – you would be led to believe anyway.

It's no secret that Everton have been relatively inactive in the transfer market this summer – and also that this inactivity was not necessarily through choice. It has been revealed by Toffees chairman Bill Kenwright that their hands are tied by the financial constraints of operating in post-recession Britain – and there have been more unsettling words to have come from the man in charge of the Goodison Park purse-strings:
"We've come to a stage with our bank where we just can't borrow any more.

One of the many vagaries of the transfer window (of which I am totally against) is the pattern of behaviour that leads to a mad-dash on deadline day.
The 24-hours sports news channels love it, and to an extent so do the fans, but for the clubs it sabotages the opening weeks of the season.
Because after surveying the 18 clubs that took part in the opening round of games it is clear we can't judge how they will fare during the season as they have not yet completed their shopping, making Premier League betting an unpredictable exercise.

In most of the season previews I have read about Everton, most of them have stressed the importance of keeping their small squad fit and being lucky with injuries if they are to succeed.
So to have one of their brightest young prospects and key attacking threats, Seamus Coleman, crocked before the season began, is an ominous sign for the Toffees.

If you look down Everton's squad it is hard to see why their fans are so restless at present.
They have a team packed full of internationals and promising youngsters with one of the best young managers in the game at the helm.
But look beyond that and you will see the fragile nature of the current side.

With the start of the Premier League season just around the corner now is the time to get all you season bets down with the bookmakers. The coming season looks an exciting and competitive one and one that certainly could through up a few surprises. So with this in mind we'll be looking at all the betting for the season and try and find that extra bit of betting value to help win that little bit more from the bookies.

While no-one was particularly surprised when Shay Given finally moved from the Man City substitutes bench in order to find first-team football at Aston Villa, the signing of a FIVE year contract may have raised a few eyebrows.
After all the deal would take him past his 40th birthday, old for even goalkeeping standards!