This week, we shall be running a series of five posts examining the fortunes of 5 clubs that have experienced significant financial and/or organisational turmoil in recent times. Unfortunately, this cross section is but the very precarious tip of a very grubby iceberg indeed - and if you think the problems we shall detail are unique to this quintet alone or indeed the 72 clubs in the Football League, then think again.

Six years ago to this very day, Theo Walcott signed for Arsenal Football Club at the age of just 16-years old. The teenager, who had set the Football League Championship and the south coast alight whilst playing for Southampton, was signed by Arsene Wenger just a couple of months before his 17th birthday.

Wrexham were denied a lucrative tie with Newcastle United after a heartbreaking penalty shoot-out defeat to Brighton in an enthralling FA Cup third-round replay.
Craig Mackail-Smith scored the decisive penalty after Peter Brezovan had denied Dean Keates to set up a fourth-round home clash against Alan Pardew's Newcastle.

OK so it's not the major striker or defender signing that some have been looking for but the club announced its first deal of the year with the news that Yago Falque has signed on a permanent deal from Juventus.

The 21 year old Spaniard has been with the club since the start of the campaign with the intention of completing a season long loan.

Hampton and Richmond striker Dan Thompson's proposed move to Portsmouth has fallen through, with a host of Premier League clubs circling, according to The Daily Star.
The non-league forward has been heavily linked with a move to the south coast, however Stoke City have also reportedly lodged a bid.

Twenty years ago in January, Wrexham AFC managed one of the great FA Cup surprises of all time. They had finished the previous season at the bottom of the Football League and had only been spared relegation to the Football Conference on account of the League expanding its size, while their Third Round opponents in that competition, Arsenal, had ended the previous season as the champions of England.

Despite the memory of the dreadful performance against Leeds on Tuesday evening looming large in my mind I'm actually quite looking forward to a trip to the south coast this weekend. Admittedly it's because it's been a while since I've had the thrill of a new ground to tick off the list, but well, you have to take your pleasures where you can as a Forest fan [.

Some good words today from Matt Le Tissier about both Alan Pardew and the Newcastle side. Matt Le Tissier Tiote and Cabaye are heartbeat of the side Le Tissier spent his entire playing career Southampton, and in 540 appearances for the south coast side, scored 210 goals in career the lasted from 1986 through 2002.

Portsmouth are understood to be closing in on non-league starlet Dan Thompson, who has also attracted interest from Liverpool and Newcastle according to skysports.com.
The 17-year-old striker, who currently plies his trade for Hampton & Richmond has been tipped for a bright future, as a host of Barclays Premier League clubs continue to monitor the situation.

Vicente: From the Mestalla to Falmer
The year is 1997 and on England's South Coast, things are far from sunny, writes David Hartrick.
Brighton and Hove Albion are facing an uncertain future as the Goldstone Ground has been sold as a result of an asset strip from a board led by a man with little to no regard for the club.

'It's playing poorly and still managing to win that's a sign of a good team'
If I had a pound for every time I've heard that in the last 36 hours I'd have enough money to make Keith Andrews' move to Portman Road a permanent one.
The scoreline suggests that the midfielder's 80th minute strike was the only difference between the two sides, but that wasn't the case.

Southampton may be an unlikely breeding ground for top Premiership talent but as all Spurs fans will know, they gave us PFA player of the year Gareth Bale while apparently there are some ex-saints plying their trade up the road.

With that track record, it's no surprise that the top sides are keeping tabs on the south coast's biggest club and Spurs are believed to be preparing a move for Luke Shaw, a 16 year old who has just broken into the first team squad at St Mary's.

Football League blog: Brighton's Poyet out to put one over on old club Leeds

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Kenny Dalglish lauds Liverpool 'talisman' Steven Gerrard after captain returns from injury in League Cup victory at Brighton

Reds skipper makes first appearance since March as strikes from Craig Bellamy and Dirk Kuyt round off solid performance on south coast from Premier League side

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Agger out for weeks as Reds head for south coast

Liverpool are set to be without the services of Daniel Agger for at least six weeks after news that the Danish international broke two ribs on Sunday at White Hart Lane. Kenny Dalglish played the injury down somewhat, telling LFC.

After defeat at home to Portsmouth two weeks ago and an under-strength young team were beaten by Southampton on the South coast last week, I'm sure the Academy would be desperate for three points today to reward what's actually been a very promising start to the new season. 1st Half United got off to a [.

So, three weeks into the new Football League season and in many ways it's much the same as the last. The divisions might be different, but Southampton and Brighton are still dazzling on the south coast; Peterborough are still serving up improbable goalfests at London Road; Crawley are still cruising at the top of the league; and, less happily, Plymouth's horrific decline continues seemingly

With the top two from last year's League 1 table being transposed atop the Championship, it is perhaps understandable that much attention has been focused on the South Coast mutual dislike society, Southampton and Brighton. However, the third of the promoted clubs have also made an encouraging start to their campaign.

League One is the junction at which all of English footballs avenues meet. At one end of the spectrum are the likes of Charlton Athletic and the two Sheffield clubs, who have fallen from their once lofty perches and are now trying to figure a way to get back to where they feel that they deserve to be.

Liverpool target Danny Ings has emerged as the subject of a surprise summer transfer bid from Russian based club Lokomotiv Moscow according to talkSPORT.
The highly rated Bournemouth starlet has been earning rave reviews for his performances on the south coast last season, capturing the interest of a number of Barclays Premier League clubs.

One of the most memorable seasons in recent times just has to be 1994/95: It was a crazy year in many ways and one which saw Jurgen Klinsmann arrive and the advent of a bizarre 4-1-5 formation.

There are many great memories from that season and one of these took place at the Dell, where mutual loathing between Southampton and Spurs fans was still a few years away.

One of the most memorable seasons in recent times just has to be 1994/95: It was a crazy year in many ways and one which saw Jurgen Klinsmann arrive and the advent of a bizarre 4-1-5 formation.

There are many great memories from that season and one of these took place at the Dell, where mutual loathing between Southampton and Spurs fans was still a few years away.

Portsmouth striker David Nugent is out-of-contract this summer and the one-time England international is keen to resolve his playing situation one way or another in the coming weeks.

The former Bury trainee enjoyed a good footballing education at Gigg Lane in League Two, earning a move to Preston North End, who, at the time were challenging for Championship promotion.

In League One, the sense that this was to be the year of the south coast started to grow as winter turn to spring. Brighton & Hove Albion soared away at the top of the table, and as the home straight of the season came into view, the pre-season favourites Southampton also began to pull away into the distance, themselves securing an automatic promotion place with a couple of games of the season still to spare.

For men of a certain age, the name of Leatherhead FC makes the eyes mist over and the memories come flooding back. The Tanners were in Division One of the Isthmian League (which was renamed the Premier Division in 1977, following reorganisation) when they beat Colchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion on the way to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup in 1975, where the BBC's Match Of The Day cameras saw them steal a two goal lead against First Division Leicester City before losing by three goals to two.

Ritchie de Laet joined Portsmouth on loan in January, after already playing for Preston and Sheffield United on loan this season.

This week he has claimed that he's really happy with the progress he's made over the last few months on the south coast.

"This must be my best-ever season because I am playing that many games," he said.

There are just four weeks left to go of the season in the Blue Square South, one of the two feeder leagues to the Blue Square Premier, and there is still all to play for at the top of the table. This week's Non-League Videos Of The Week features six of the top eight in the league, and with the battle for the title and for the four play-off places still wide open, there is still all to play for.

At the Withdean Stadium this afternoon, all the fun of the fair was on display, with two goals in the last few minutes and a win that keep Brighton & Hove Albion at the top of League One. This success is well deserved, but there is a knock-on effect of sorts going on just up the road at Whitehawk.

You can take a club to Turkey but can you turkey a club?

It was quite a surprise when word leaked out this past autumn that Toronto FC would be spending its preseason in Turkey. In the previous four years, TFC were more like Quebecois senior citizens who went to Florida for the winter. Their opponents usually resembled Old-Age Home U-90 teams too.

La Liga Lowdown, Jornada 20: Málaga – new manager, new players, same old problems is a post from: Just Football

Until recently, no one really paid too much attention to south coast side Málaga. They're your typical ‘yo-yo' club, bouncing between the top two tiers of Spanish football, the Primera and Segunda División.

This according to Matt Law from the Express, who seems to have an inside line on the transfer of the young winger. The player has chosen Arsenal ahead of Liverpool, but the sticking point remains as to whether he joins up at London Colney this month or stays on the south coast until the summer.

Either way, this appears to be a decent deal for the club.