I am watching Sky Sports pre-match show now, and everybody on the table saying this 10-point deduction was harsh, and if you want to punish people, punish the owners and this and that…
I get it, Man City has over 100 allegations, and Chelsea has some too but that doesn’t change the fact Everton is in the wrong as well, personally, I think they will be fine even with the points deductions there are teams worse than them and they are playing well enough to be safe till the end of the season.
And if the end of the day, it’s proven Man City and Chelsea are also in the wrong, punish them, simple as that.
I just don’t get the feeling of “oh poor lads, they don’t deserve this…” Please, we have teams in history that suffered way more than a simple 10-point deduction and the level of outrage wasn’t near the same. We have teams that played in the Premier League out of league football because of poor management.
The two questions for me are, as someone not well versed on the Prem laws and rules:
Is the points deduction itself commensurate with the level of the transgression?
Are the Premier League going to apply this standard of punishment evenly across the league?
As long as those two points are covered, then there can be no complaints. But as I suspect, point 2 is going to be a huge question at the minute. And I would appreciate any insight into where the Prem got the 10 points from.
Luton were on the receiving end of a points deduction that was, essentially, designed to destroy the club, certainly for the EFL to wipe its hands of us for good. We were not unique in the number of administrations and the supposed financial irregularities were rife throughout the Football League, but we were chosen as the sacrificial lamb to be made an example of.
And I can say from personal experience that points deductions don’t punish the right people. For us, those who got us in that position were already long gone by the time we got that -30.
If you’re going to punish something, you make sure everyone guilty shares the punishment.