Deal 'unfair to soccer club's shareholders'

Shareholders with a 25% stake in Nottingham Forest football club have launched a High Court bid to outlaw a £6m cash injection deal which they say was improper and devalued their assets.

Former Forest football director and Tottenham chairman Irving Scholar, together with other former directors and pension fund trustees, are claiming the deal was a device to give Nigel Doughty control of the whole business.