Former Brum chairman says he can turn the club around…

Bongo baron David Sullivan has announced he’ll ’save’ West Ham from financial doom, but only if the club’s Icelandic owners hand him over half the club. For free. According to this morning’s Sun, Cardiff-born Sullivan, apparently a Hammers fan from boyhood, told bosses at Straumur he’ll inject £40m and turn the club back into a profitable business, but won’t touch any debt repayments:

West Ham’s debts are frightening and nobody in their right mind would take on such a nightmare. So he’s come up with an ingenious plan.

He basically told Straumur: ‘I’ll turn this club round, I’ll make it profitable and healthy but only if you give me a 50 per cent stake right now and leave me to run the ship with my people.

F1 villain could soon fail the fit and proper person test

A rotund 59-year-old with grey thinning hair and his 29-year-old wife, Italian Wonderbra model Elisabetta Gregoraci. Life, she is not fair.

Unless you have no interest in the sport where they drive around in circles for hours on end in order to sell advertising, you will have heard that Flavio Briatore has stepped down from the Renault F1 team, following the race fixing allegations at the Singapore 2008 Grand Prix.

After Renault bosses announced that the part-owner of QPR is “morally responsible” for an incident which allegedly saw Nelson Piquet Jr massively risk his own safety by deliberately crashing, it looks as if the FIA may throw him out of the sport.

If this happens, he will fail the Football League’s fit and proper person test, which states that a person cannot own a majority interest in a team if they are “subject to a ban from a sports governing body relating to the administration of their sport.”

The knock-on effect for QPR is currently up for debate. The West Londoners would probably miss his commercial nous, new sponsors may be reticent to do business with the club if he stayed. Considering the fact