Pressure on West Ham United's chairman may have eased on the terraces, but in the boardroom the heat is set to turn up even higher.
The Whistle group is the latest organisation to set their sights on changing the way the business side of the club is run -- and spokesman Mike Hanna reckons they can make the owning Cearns and Warner families take notice.
But Hanna and his colleagues are no quick-fix megabucks outfit promising cash and glory overnight.
Instead they are taking the longer view, looking for a new man to take control of the finances and create a profitable business which will, in turn, fund a successful football team.
"We are not a consortium planning to buy the club," said Hanna.
"We are not people with money or out to cause trouble for the hell of it."
Instead this group of businessmen is trying to raise support among shareholders for a change in corporate management, using the same logic the board used themselves to remove football manager Glenn Roeder.
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Published Tuesday November 18, 2003
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