Maybe I'm off here but I don't hear any discussion about Man City and their alleged breaches of regulations?
I generally tend to keep off sports/social media but I didn't have to try hard to hear plenty of opinion about Everton's situation this past fortnight. As much as I abhor the current board and their mismanagement of the club, any significant sanction hurts the club and the supporters, not them individually.
It would be fine if you could separate the sins from the sinner but they are one and the same. It's Everton that are in the dock here. Not Moshiri, not Kenwright. I'd be all for it if the end result was running them out of town with a fresh start under new ownership. We are run by incompetent and egotistical buffoons but the one area above all others now where I pray they can get their act together just for once is in their engagement of the very best professional representation to give us the best possible chance at the hearing.
It would be foolhardy to say there's nothing to see here as far as Everton are concerned but that would be fine and dandy if it was Everton in isolation. As much as questions and due process are legitimate, it is also legitimate to ask why now, and why in the context of a two-year period of co-operation with the Premier League.
I absolutely and 100% desire new ownership and the most savage cull possible at boardroom and executive management level for our club. But we are being targeted here at a politically expedient time for those would would see us further weakened and damaged. What fair punishment could Everton reasonably absorb? Do they want us out of business? Are Everton to be the sacrificial lamb for three decades worth of dubious practices and and a complete and utter disregard for ethics and morality such that the dogs in the street know about it?
I can only hope that the commission come to conclude in practical terms that any significant sanction is akin to setting fire to a 145 year old bastion of English football. That they take the expedient solution of extending our period on the watchlist with a final warning. They have, after all, tried to steer the club towards a more sustainable position. With some slow progress made and more to come, and the move to the stadium, if they want to crush us, then it will be a decision they will have willingly taken.