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They've gone down, there's in-fighting at the club's annual dinner and the club are £80m in debt but a long list of men are lined up for the manager role at Upton Park. Chris Hughton heads the list of West Ham suitors in the early trading on Betfair's next manager market. The former Newcastle boss, so harshly sacked in mid-season by Mike Ashley, is the 3.0 favourite to take the reins at Upton Park following Avram Grant's Sunday afternoon sacking in the DW Stadium tunnel. In volatile trading, Hughton has been backed at a low of 2.12 from an early high of 6.2 before settling at his current level. Possessing promotion winning experience at Championship level with a thin Newcastle United squad in 2009-10, and not currently employed in football, Hughton looks ideally placed to take...