It's not black and white for former West Ham chairman Brown

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Brown, chairman for 15 years until selling his 40 per cent stake to an Icelandic consortium last year, is credited in the acknowledgements as helping to write the biography Brown Out (£16.99, Pennant Books), published next week and written by club historian Brian Belton.

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Despite publicity blurb calling him 'disgraced', the book puts property magnate Brown in the best possible light on almost every West Ham matter.

It claims he was not directly involved in the negotiations for the transfer of Tevez and Javier Mascherano, signings which relegated Sheffield United claim should have resulted in West Ham losing their top-flight status.

It adds that the Icelanders could have been more diligent in their own research into the third party ownership difficulties surrounding the two Argentinians before buying West Ham.

The book asserts that Brown should be given back his lifetime seats in the directors' box that were taken away by Eggert Magnusson in the wake of the Premier League fining West Ham a record £5.5million.

There is no chance of a rapprochement with Brown while so many legal issues have still to be resolved, including an FA hearing into Sheffield United's allegations.

But with Magnusson no longer running West Ham, it helps Brown's chances of eventually getting his seats back.