PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[MarsLlama]

They are damaging the sporting integrity of the league by making points deductions. They will then compound their mistakes if they change the rules that could have potentially have led to clubs being relegated.

Everton's fault though isn't it. We pretty explicitly warned them this would happen.

 

[KS55]

The clubs.

Ah. At which meeting did the clubs vote on this? I’ve not seen that reported, but you may know more.

 

[KS55]

Everton's fault though isn't it. We pretty explicitly warned them this would happen.

On Day 1 of all this Khaldoon warned that it was bonkers. That’s more than a decade ago.

 

[Bluewonder]

You’re (disingenuously, ironically) mixing up 2 separate things.

1) Should there be any financial restrictions in football?

2) Is the Premier League destroying its sporting integrity by enforcing the punishment system the clubs voted for when clubs are caught deliberately cheating?

We’re discussing 2, 1 is a completely different conversation.

I'm not mixing up two things as they are inextricably linked.

The root cause is the rules, the application of them, is merely an extension of that.

Besides the application of the rules and subsequent sporting sanctions is a mess anyway, as sanctions were not clearly defined at the outset.

Btw, there's a whole host of reasons why a business might be loss-making that wouldn't constitute 'deliberate cheating'

 

[KS55]

I'm not mixing up two things as they are inextricably linked.

The root cause is the rules, the application of them, is merely an extension of that.

Besides the application of the rules and subsequent sporting sanctions is a mess anyway, as sanctions were not clearly defined at the outset.

Btw, there's a whole host of reasons why a business might be loss-making that wouldn't constitute 'deliberate cheating'

I’ve never heard of any other system of regulation that does not clearly define all the rules at the outset.

 

[domalino]

Btw, there's a whole host of reasons why a business might be loss-making that wouldn't constitute 'deliberate cheating'

Yeah and none of them apply here.

If you don’t even know what Everton did, how can you give opinions about whether it’s fair or not?

 

[Dribble]

Everton's fault though isn't it. We pretty explicitly warned them this would happen.

None of them were concerned about the consequences when they believed FFP/PSR would only affect City, & that they'd all be the beneficiaries of us being neutered.

 

[Sibierskii]

What about Man City?

 

[Fuzzy80]

Apparently, Everton are planning an appeal because of this, the previous breach & the next breach on the horizon, all overlapping with each other.

The PL said this punishment has taken the breach overlaps into account, but Everton are aploplectic with rage & feel they're being hit with treble jeopardy.

I think the punishment was aimed at not having one, but hope they do.

Let’s have relegation determined in the court room.

Everyone of these hitting the financial giants of Everton and Notts Forest is starting to paint a picture to the everyday fan.

PL just lucky that these deductions may prove to have no meaningful effect with these clubs staying up anyway.

A lot more of a mess the other way and is what I am hoping for.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Tonight’s the night I get banned from the BBC have your say. But not for defending City, no I’ve gone full dipper mental Nazi, I have posted half a dozen comments demanding exactly what the public want. Blood and lots of it. City shut down, stadium burned down, players put in concentration camps, fans rounded up and murdered. Why argue with them, give them what they want, blood and guts, murder! Forget due process, the will of the people must be satisfied.