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For anyone left who might be inclined to dig a little deeper into the legal morass the Premier League created when their Independent Commission gave credence to the narrowest of margins in probabilistic modelling that granted Burnley £26M in compensation (plus interest) at Everton's expense, Stefan Borson has been authoring a series of short articles published last month on his Substack that are well worth reading:

Burnley have won a parachute-sized claim. Will they keep it? — 11 June 2026
 
 
The panel that deducted 10 points added a £35m award to Burnley — 12 June 2026
 
Everton were clear in their statement last week that they consider the recent Compensation Commission’s interpretation of the PSRs to be fundamentally flawed — 17 June 2026
 
 
Burnley's bold gamble may make others more cautious — 25 June 2026
 
Stefan Borson is a lawyer, football finance commentator and Partner and Head of Sport at law firm, McCarthy Denning.
 

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Mal van Schaick
1 Posted 25/07/2026 at 13:21:55
Do a Man City and keep it going for years and years without consequence.
Jack Convery
2 Posted 25/07/2026 at 14:22:05
If they get this £35M, we should sue for the loss of the parachute payment, Burnley received. After all if they are right, we should have been getting it, instead of them.

Ifs, buts, and maybes, is no way to making a ruling as the biased committee did.
Eric Myles
3 Posted 25/07/2026 at 15:07:13
True Jack, nowhere have I read about the legal principle that you can't benefit twice as a result of the wrongdoing.

The parachute payment should be deducted from our £35 million.

Although Borson's argument is that the payment is a further sanction for the wrongdoing.
Gerry Quinn
4 Posted 25/07/2026 at 20:31:03
Come on, Andy Burnham, lay into this corrupt FA
Don Alexander
5 Posted 26/07/2026 at 01:37:12
Gerry, for any Prime Minister, your suggestion is a sure-fire net vote-winner, but what do we know of our fellow Toffee Burnham? If he's not on ToffeeWeb, why not?

Or do the prolific freebies systematically given by the Premier League to MPs across the board for decades now prevent him from doing some good with his gigantic majority in the Commons?
Bob Parrington
6 Posted 26/07/2026 at 01:37:50
The Premier League... What a mess!

Burnley — I hope you are relegated each season over the next 3 years. Bad sportsmanship and greed!
Alan J Thompson
7 Posted 26/07/2026 at 06:21:06
Sorry, Bob (#6), but Everton didn't vote against the introduction of such rules so are just as much to blame as Burnley.

What I find difficult to understand is what most clubs thought they would benefit by such rules rather than being stand alone entities, have there really been that many Bury's saved from themselves?

It most certainly hasn't introduced a level playing field and, if inflation in everyday life was roaring along as it is in the Premier League transfer market, then we'd be appointing two Prime Ministers at once to save time.

Pity football clubs don't have as much difficulty moving money out of the country as I have trying to move a little in...

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