Icelandic owners, the Tevez and Mascherano affair and hooliganism have each blighted West Ham fans’ last few seasons.
The 2009/10 season hasn’t exactly started brilliantly either. The club sit in 19th with five points from seven games, but 90minutesonline found Graeme Howlett, editor of Knees Up Mother Brown, in fairly optimistic mood.
After a seven year stint in the Premier League under Alan Curbishley, Charlton have in recent years experienced relegation twice and now find themselves in League One.
2009 has already seen them set a new club record of 18 games without a win, but things are getting better. The Addicks currently sit second in the league having lost one of their last 11 games and have just received a significant financial injection.
90minutesonline spoke to Grant Wyn, author of Addick's Championship Diary, about his team and his hopes for this season.
Nine games in and things continue to look good for FC Twente, who finally claimed the top of the table all for themselves this last weekend. McClaren's team continued their unbeaten domestic season with another win, this time 3-1 away at mid-table Heracles. Meanwhile nearest rivals PSV fell 2 points behind the Eredivisie table-toppers, after being held 0-0 at Utrecht.
Things didn't initially start too well for FC Twente on Sunday. In the ninth minute the visitors conceded an unnecessary, if slightly dubious looking freekick. Everton curled in the set-piece with his right foot and it managed to allude everyone and bounced in past the goalkeeper.
Polish football was far from hit this week by Jagiellonia Białystok midfielder Marco Reich’s comments that the Ekstraklasa is comparable in quality to the German third tier.
Whether it’s true or not, the former Walsall, Crystal Palace and Derby County man is the one poor enough to be playing in the Ekstraklasa, and he played 84 minutes this week as Jagiellonia upset high-flying Legia Warszawa thanks to a fine display by Kamil Grosicki.
Just two games into this season's Champions League group stage, and it is becoming apparent that the dynamics of European club football is reflecting more that of international football. It has been a common soundbite in recent years that there are no easy international matches anymore, and likewise judging by some of the results, the same could now be said for the highest level of club football.
If you only take a fleeting look at the scorelines of this weeks round of Champions League matches, you could be forgiven for thinking that there were some mistakes in the reporting. The stand-out results involved both of Milan's clubs. Firstly Jose Mourinho's Inter only managed a 1-1 draw in Russia against Rubin Kazan, and then on Wednesday AC Milan fell to a 1-0 home defeat to Swiss champions FC Zürich.