danielwood5
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Yep, you don't get relegated or titles stripped for disagreements about putting expenditure X42y/7 in column 37b-12 rather than 37b-13.It's part of the unfortunate hysteria of reporting.
Because there's no obvious rules around punishments, people let their imaginations run wild. There's a report in one paper about United staff wondering about getting winners medals for 2017/18.
The punishment could be a fine, points reduction, relegation, expulsion from the football system - even forcing the season to be replayed is theoretically within the Premier League's powers.
It's what makes people think they've been cheated when the club only gets a fine.
That kind of extreme action comes after match fixing or bribing referees, not accounting minutiae.