Case shut out at Brighton
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Your support makes all the difference.The malaise at Brighton & Hove Albion deepened yesterday when the Nationwide League's bottom club sacked their manager, Jimmy Case.
Unrest off the field has been matched by a dire record on it. Case had guided Brighton to only three victories this season and saw his side knocked out of the FA Cup by non-League Sudbury. Brighton supporters protested again during Tuesday night's home defeat to Darlington, in the latest of a series of demonstrations against the board. They are upset at the sale of the stadium and the club's plans to ground-share with Gillingham next season.
The 65-year-old Brighton coach, George Petchey, has been made the club's caretaker, but the former Millwall and Crystal Palace manager does not want the job on a full-time basis.
The club's chief executive, David Bellotti, said Brighton would be advertising for a permanent successor to Case. He said: "In the last few hours there have been a number of managers who are out of work, who have spoken to me, and who would like to consider coming to Brighton."
The Middlesbrough chairman, Steve Gibson, has made it clear that the unsettled Emerson -who has again failed to return on time from a visit to his native Brazil -would not be allowed to leave the club. Gibson said the pounds 4m midfielder has been fined six weeks' salary -around pounds 50,000-since he joined the club on a four-year contract in the summer.
Gibson said: "The club's position is clear. Emerson cannot be allowed to leave. If he doesn't comply he will lose everything and it will cost him his career."
Jack Charlton, the former Republic of Ireland manager, has rejected an offer to become director of football at First Division Grimsby. The club's chairman, Bill Carr, said that Charlton did not want the "day-to-day pressure of running a club again".
Mike Newell is set to join Bolton from Birmingham City after the clubs agreed a pounds 700,000 fee in time for the former Blackburn striker to be available for the weekend.
Liverpool are ready to sign the Gothenburg striker Andreas Andersson for pounds 2m. The manager, Roy Evans, watched the Swedish international play in the Champions' League last night. The Anfield club have also thwarted an attempt by the England coach, Glenn Hoddle, to add their assistant manager, Doug Livermore, to the national team's coaching staff.
Southampton are to appeal over the sending-off of Ulrich Van Gobbel at Blackburn, who was dismissed for a second bookable offence.
Nottingham Forest shareholders have been promised pounds 25,000 worth of shares in the club if they back the takeover bid by the consortium led by the Monte Carlo-based businessman Lawrie Lewis.
Lewis' consortium partner, Phil Soar, outlined the takeover proposals to nearly two-thirds of Forest's shareholders who attended a three-hour meeting. It is understood they were told they would also receive 12,000 shares in Forest in exchange for the one they currently own if Lewis gains control of the Premiership club.
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