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[Football] Forest docked 4 points FFP
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Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Hardly surprising grey suits create a grey area for yet more grey suits to make money in challenging the grey decision.
All very predicable and bland.
OK...but maybe Everton will appeal again now?
Could be that only 2 years out of 3 were in the PL so this was taken into account for the points deduction.
Ah yes, Man City...hmmm
...which season do you reckon the cases will be heard, and which season finalised after appeals...? Yes, it's ridiculous.If they said something like: anyone breaking the rules will just be relegated (even if it's ten teams...) maybe that would simplify things.
brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
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Obviously the recent cases are different, so I dont want to compare one to another, but it all just seems a bit lenient to me. If Forest/Everton have overspent which has lead to them unjustly improving their playing squad and therefore to date earning more league points than they potentially should have, now deducting them an amount of points that can be recouped in just two games feels like a smack on the wrist but not meaningful enough. Surely it will lead to other teams chancing it with their spending, thinking 'whats the worst that could happen, a 4 point deduction..'.
Rowdey
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Handily for them, they have been prolific buyers, so would have taken advantage of this side of the coin..!
- Oct 17, 2008
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I am no @El Presidente I freely admit, but it doesn’t seem right to me.
The advantages of cheating to gain an advantage far outweigh the punishments for (eventually) being punished.
It would seem to make sense to cheat brazenly to get the points, take the inevitable small deduction - appeal it and see it likely reduced even further - and still be way ahead.
It’s like robbing a bank with your face clearly visible and your address printed on your t-shirt, being caught sentenced to a few months in prison and being allowed to keep the money afterwards.
The advantages of cheating to gain an advantage far outweigh the punishments for (eventually) being punished.
It would seem to make sense to cheat brazenly to get the points, take the inevitable small deduction - appeal it and see it likely reduced even further - and still be way ahead.
It’s like robbing a bank with your face clearly visible and your address printed on your t-shirt, being caught sentenced to a few months in prison and being allowed to keep the money afterwards.
brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
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Yep exactly this. They overspend and buy players they shouldn't be able to afford, get caught, receive a tiny punishment, and then get to carry on the season with those same players.
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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Which they know full well.
- May 8, 2018
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Surely a single transfer is irrelevant to the outcome, where as they are still accountable for wider approach / strategy they decided to take, so £20 above or below the Johnson valuation doesn’t hit the sides
You only spend £250 on players if you think nothing will come of it, seems like the enforcement has come somewhat as a surprise to these long standing financial institutions?
- Oct 17, 2008
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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It's all a bit of a joke now. The Evertons and the Forests get arbitrarily moved up and down the table mid-season while the Chelseas and the Man Citys just carry on regardless. Add in the vagaries of VAR and it's increasingly hard to care anymore. EPL will eat itself
But this has nothing to do with Man City or Chelsea, completely different cases of (alleged) cheating.
Yep this is the problem with having the same body that is in charge of promoting and marketing the Premier League also being the authority on implementing the rules of the league too. Needs a fully independent body in charge of enforcing the rules that isn't worried about "tarnishing" the league.
KZNSeagull
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Oh no surely not? Companies that pay billions for a product want to have a say in how it develops? I can't believe that
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
I've said it before and I'll bore you all by saying it again.
Chelsea have played a final and are back at Wembley for a cup semi.
If Brighton exceeded FFP and had a points deducted we'd already had the best season in our history and you cant take that away.
So does a small points deduction mean breaking the rules is worth it.
Answer YES.
Chelsea have played a final and are back at Wembley for a cup semi.
If Brighton exceeded FFP and had a points deducted we'd already had the best season in our history and you cant take that away.
So does a small points deduction mean breaking the rules is worth it.
Answer YES.