Source: Telegraph
Portsmouth: FA Cup winners to crisis club
May 2008: Beat Cardiff City 1-0 to win FA Cup and qualify for Europe for first time.[LNB]Oct 2008: Harry Redknapp leaves for second time to join Spurs. His assistant, Tony Adams, takes over.[LNB] Related ArticlesSport on televisionPortsmouth sack Paul HartStoke City 1 Portsmouth 0Portsmouth transfer ban 'to be lifted'Jan 2009: Exit of Jermain Defoe and Lassana Diarra and out of the FA Cup.[LNB]Feb 2009: Adams is sacked and replaced by Paul Hart, who steers team away from relegation.[LNB]May 2009: Pompey accept a bid from Sulaiman Al-Fahim to buy the club from Alexandre Gaydamak. However, Peter Crouch, Sylvain Distin, Niko Kranjcar and Glen Johnson all leave.[LNB]July 2009: Al Fahim is made non-executive chairman, while chief executive officer Peter Storrie assembles takeover consortium.[LNB]Aug 2009: Al Fahim completes his takeover.[LNB]Sept 2009: Pompey set a Premier League record of seven straight defeats from the start of the season. [LNB]Oct 2009: Avram Grant returns as director of football. Ali al-Faraj buys a 90 per cent majority holding with Al-Fahim retaining a 10 per cent stake.[LNB]Nov 2009: Hart is sacked.[LNB]
