Everton and Nottingham Forest broke rules they voted for — there is no conspiracy

In The Mirror, John Cross writes that, “Everton and Nottingham Forest are up in arms after being charged for overspending while conveniently forgetting it was actually the clubs themselves who brought in PSR more than a decade ago.”

The journalist dismisses the notion that PSR is “some sort of conspiracy to help the big boys by keeping the likes of Everton and Forest firmly in their place” or that the “independent panel [made] up a punishment as they [went] along.

“Don’t blame the Premier League. Blame the clubs who broke the rules. And it’s the clubs who imposed these rules in the first place.”