The Everton Forum • Re: Financial Fairplay Investigation - Deducted 10 points

Or, as mentioned the fact that they seemingly had no framework for enforcement these rules, did I read correctly that they came up with these punishment guidelines relatively recently?

They came up with the punishment guidelines in August this year, after they were already prosecuting the case.

So they effectively tried someone for a crime, and mid way through the trial, they made up a completely arbitrary punishment for that crime.

Surely stuff like that can't stand up under appeal?

That will go a long way to explain why the independent panel went out of their way to say they were specifically ignoring the PLs sentencing guidelines as it would invalidate the powers of the panel.
And then, coincidentally, plumped for the exact same points deduction as the PL had recommended. But without specifying how they came to it.

This is the thing that has bothered me the most about it. I read through the entire 41 page transcript of the hearing. The commission gives the reasoning for why the PL asked for 10 points (6 for the breach, 1 for every additional 5m over), says they won’t be swayed or influenced by it and then hands down 10 points with zero explanation for why they settled on the number.

I realise we’ve breached and don’t expect no punishment, but this feels unjust. Especially when it’s been decided there was no sporting advantage. Why would the punishment be a sporting disadvantage? That suggests they’ve tried to balance the scales as though the overspending helped us

Statistics: Posted by dsaund — Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:49 pm

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