Leeds, Leicester and Burnley 'ready to sue' if Everton found guilty

They haven't written to 777, have they? Why doesn't the Premier League tell all of the supposedly unhappy clubs to stop making waves, or they'll be docked points for bringing the league into disrepute?

Another day, another pile of cack for Evertonians to deal with, but at least we know the greatest Evertonian is on the case, as we drift through life, waiting for the next scaremongering report.

Matt Hughes Everton stories

It might not be because he doesn't like Everton per se, but he has a bee in his bonnet about somebody or something connected to the club, or because he 'believes' there is mileage in his pronouncements, so that eventually they will become the truth.

Perhaps, he's just another troll who happens to be a sportswriter at the Mail.

BBC reporter tweeted the following:

Shamoon Hafez@ShamoonHafez

As of this afternoon, 777 Partners have not received a letter from the Premier League or any clubs about plans to sue Everton pending the outcome of the independent hearing on 25 October. #EFC

Despite the Liverpool Echo a stable mate of the Mirror, saying no letter has arrived at 777, as per MK's update in the OS.

I'd be surprised if the press didn't report on such big issues. They are big issues. For the club, for its supporters (witness the number of articles on these different issues on ToffeeWeb and the number of posts), for the wider community, and for other clubs (consider what they might gain from some of the possible outcomes).

But anyway, I still hate the Daily Mail!

They are nothing more than largely unsubstantiated opinion pieces from one Journalist, who never directly quotes any source. If that's what passes for 'reporting', I should have taken a different career path.

What pisses me off the most is that one tweet from these characters and the whole media decide that it's worth running a couple of hundred word article based on some guy's opinion or gut-feeling or whatever it is, but whatever it is, it isn't necessarily factual.

The possible docking of points and subsequent relegation is a massive and real issue. The possible default on debts or loss of our owner are massive and real issues. The threat of our going into administration is a massive and real issue.

The possible take-over by 777 Partners or anybody else is a massive and real issue, especially considering the negative reputational damage and current problems 777 have been and still are facing.

However, is it the job of the media to inform us at every turn, of all of the possible ramifications and to do that by 'making-up' stuff simply to amplify how bad things are?

I'd much prefer that the likes of Hughes set about looking for the reasons as to how a club of Everton's longevity and standing managed to get itself into such a precarious position, and who were the people involved that got us into that situation.

Of course that doesn't gain clicks as much as sounding the death-knell every now and again, does it? It's little wonder that we [fans, public] often remain in the darkness when there's nobody to shine a light on things, which is what the fourth estate is meant to do, or it used to be, anyhow.

Ah, dreams.

By then the media had turned them into the plucky underdogs and didn't see the need of ruining their contrived fairy tale story. They also ran up £192M losses over 3 years before being relegated. Pot and kettle.

Which rather reinforces the notion that these clubs should be suing the Premier League and not Everton. (Assuming they even are planning to sue Everton, of course!)

Isn't the investigation into costs for the stadium anyway? So they can hardly blame our laying a few foundations for their deficiencies on the pitch!

Daily Mail article is kite-flying bullshit, full of errors, and regurgitated from other unsubstantiated articles.

What shall we fill our pages with today, lets do a story on... errrrrr... Everton.

Another failed piece. Must do better next time, Hughes.

Rather than fret over media owners who have it in for us, is it not time to look at ourselves in the mirror and understand what we have become, through our owners and management's dereliction of duty? A club on its knees if not its back.

Moshiri talked earlier this year about an existential crisis and I believe he meant our extinction, at least in terms of the club we know. This is no longer a longs odds chance. My own, possibly wild guess, is a 33% chance.

It's really not a case of shooting the messenger, is it? We are led to believe that we are in a perilous situation, but to what extent? It would seem only a few actually know how bad things are or how bad they may become.

Why should we as supporters have to look in the mirror? What is it that we've done that has accelerated the decline of Everton Football Club? Only one Evertonian has any responsibility for the decline of this club and he doesn't even attend Goodison Park. It is he and his band of fellow crazies who should have looked in the mirror a long, long time ago.

A little bit more scrutiny by the likes of Hughes and the local sports journalists would also have been handy, as it may have prevented some of the ridiculous decisions that have been made in the last few years.

I'm not looking back, I'm looking at the present, and we are in the gutter and not seeing the stars.

Of course it's not our fault, but then I don't see the media, or certainly this article, suggesting it is. Maybe you're right that they could have done better seeing the possibility of our current plight. For sure some on here have. But that doesn't alter my point.

Burnley, Leeds (dirty, dirty Leeds) and Leicester? Have at it, knock yourselves out etc. Sue us for what? We haven't got a pot to piss in.

Oh and don't spend your £1 token damages (split 3 ways) all in the one shop.

What do you actually want, back in the Premier League? And which one of Leeds (dirty, dirty Leeds) Leicester will get promoted then – you can't relegate us twice. Or do Burnley want a Mulligan if they drop down again this year?

With the RS media circus postulating having a goal added or even replays, where will it end... lost the pre-game toss? – Off to The International Court of Human Rights in The Hague.

I think (hope) the Premier League have rules to forbid this sort of shite.

Save your money; you couldn't punish Everton any more than we are currently doing to ourselves.

You never get what you deserve, but you usually deserve what you get - All 4 of us!

Or, like the VAR are interpreted as suits?

Whether Everton overspent a bit had nothing to do with it at all. To complain that somehow the two games they each played against Everton out of the 38 games they played made some major contribution to them going down is simply absurd.

The reason the three clubs I have mentioned went down was because Burnley lost 17 games and Leicester and Leeds both lost over 20 games. Even if Everton had won the league, they would still have been relegated.

They are basically trying to blame any club that finished slightly above them for them getting relegated. Might as well blame a lousy VAR decision. A deflected shot, injuries etc etc.

Clubs have been getting relegated since 1892 when Division Two was founded. It's part of the game as every club knows. So to start making complaints now is simply ridiculous and there is no court in the UK where their arguments would survive any scrutiny at all.

However, I believe that because it's possible, this will be a factor behind why we won't get found guilty in our hearing. If we did, it would set a precedent and make the whole P&S thing even more of a shit show than it already is.

Chelsea meanwhile spend £1Billion, nobody bats an eyelid.

Surely any claim for compensation would be against the Premier League given Everton we're operating under their guidance and their sign-off of all things Everton!!

Just a thought, I really don't want 777 Partners. If Rights & Media Funding are in agreement that 777 Partners are acceptable but MSP Sports Capital aren't, then Kenwright must be in bed with R&MF (meet the new Chairman, Chairman Bill)???