The 10-point penalty meted out to the Blues was what so many have said – a disproportionately harsh sporting punishment for a financial crime that makes a mockery of the very concept at the heart of the Premier League's unevenly applied rules: sustainability
The downgrading of a relatively obscure Bermuda-based reinsurer should have little consequence for a 144-year-old football club, having arguably its most encouraging sequence of games in several years (albeit now penalised 10 points for breaching the Premier League financial rules) and with the tantalising prospect of moving into the brand new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock […]
A summary of the justification the Independent Commission used to recommend a 10-point points deduction for Everton
It’s hard to shrug off the feeling that there was nowhere near enough distance between the prosecution and the adjudicating entity for this to have been a truly fair process.