6 + 2 Point Deductions

[Victus]

Sometimes I think Football is just the pantomime of todays age lol and we unfortunately play the part of the clown.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

...and yet there you are paying them your money for their opinion. Not a dig at you, pal, just a gripe at how the "system" works.

Not paying for Sky mate but take your point lol

 

[chrismpw]

Sometimes I think Football is just the pantomime of todays age lol and we unfortunately play the part of the clown.

It's certainly as (badly) scripted as any pantomime. Frankly I'm surprised people still buy into it.

 

[irishtony1878]

Who was on the committee / panel who decided 10 points?

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Frig them all!

We can do this, we have done it before. Fans and team as one. We are the famous EFC.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Wednesday got 12 points and appealed to 6 for example in the EFL. The appeals board ruled they disagreed with some of the independent commission findings.

Same thing here. The league will appoint an appeals board and they'll review it.

The other rat clubs who want to sue for compensation have 28 days to do so also

I think with a lot of these things the appeal is almost baked in - the more I look at the judgement the more I see a bit of wiggle room on things they have / haven't included as aggravations or mitigations, think they've sought to take it to the maximum extent in the knowledge that an appeal will knock it down a bit.

Not saying it's all scripted in advance but I think the PL are getting what they want at this point in time in terms of shock value, both as a warning to clubs and a message to the government but I do expect a reduction in the final sanction to something more proportionate. I think the reaction from the broader (non-Evertonian) football world tells you they've gone too hard.

 

[Bristol Blue]

What about Manch C case, that has a list of 100+ breaches?

Brown paper envelopes full of
They’ll be just fine

 

[Nymzee]

Still funny we'd have got less points reduced if we went into administration lol

 

[magicjuan]

Who was on the committee / panel who decided 10 points?

you don't need to know that...

 

[ToffeeTim]

Still funny we'd have got less points reduced if we went into administration lol

I think that is by far the most ludicrous part of today. I would love to hear the justification for it.

 

[kenada_blue]

Agree with the 2nd part. The first part is just passing the buck. The PL doesn't manage EFC's finances.

It signs off transfers dealings. The point being is that if they knew about our finances (the previous years accounts were far more eye watering) they should've implemented something sooner rather than "work" with the club.

To come out at the time and say we were compliant when other clubs were threatening to sue means they were closer to the financials than you'd expect.

Basically they were the passenger not flagging up to the driver they're about to crash.

 

[daza_1973]

Based on what though?

Been agreed we gained no sporting advantage.

Their argument seems based on if we had been punished last season they wouldn't have been relegated

 

[allen]

Who was on the committee / panel who decided 10 points?

Irish Tony is sending the lads round!

 

[Bristol Blue]

Who was on the committee / panel who decided 10 points?

That’s been kept hush hush apparently

 

[Lob]

All these suing us reports are codswallop. There is nothing to sue us for. The PL acknowledged that the breach did not give a sporting advantage. It was to do with interest charges on the stadium. We are guilty but to get a 10 point deduction for it is absolutely preposterous. They have not even explained how it warrants such a disproportionate punishment. Just a suck on that. We would have only got 9 points for going into administration. Every club and supporter in the country should be up in arms about it as it is an absolute disgrace.