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drew

drew

Drew
Oct 3, 2006
23,074
Burgess Hill
Neville's Breakfast said:
On the Sunday Supplement this morning they said the 12 point deduction can be applied to next season. Doesn’t that quash the rumour about the bet ?
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I think the rules are that if you get relegated without the deduction then it is applied from the start of next season. It will also start from next season if applying it this season has no affect.
 




HastingsSeagull

HastingsSeagull

Well-known member
Jan 13, 2010
9,277
BGC Manila
We have some good connections with Wigan. Dan Burn and Christian Walton.

Compare that to a bunch of fans rivaling the massive for sh**housery and it's a no contest who will be cheering on in the last 5 games.

Is Gaston able to walk yet ???
 




Jim Van Winkle

Jim Van Winkle

Well-known member
Jul 14, 2010
3,125
Hawaii
Icy Gull said:
I hear he went to the same miracle recovery centre that saved Billy Sharp after THAT Dunk tackle
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He’s done it again . . .

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Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
31,360
Uffern
drew said:
I think the rules are that if you get relegated without the deduction then it is applied from the start of next season. It will also start from next season if applying it this season has no affect.
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These are an extraordinary set of circumstances though. When clubs framed that rule it wasn't envisaged that a club would deliberately go into admin in order to be relegated. If there is a conspiracy to get one up on the bookies, then, by applying that rule, the EFL could be party to that conspiracy.

There's a lot to untangle at Wigan and it's early days, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility that there could be criminal charges brought against club officials and there's even a chance they could be brought against employees of the EFL. It's an unholy mess but the EFL could sidestep a lot of it by applying the penalty next season.
 


Not Andy Naylor

Not Andy Naylor

Well-known member
Dec 12, 2007
8,803
Seven Dials
Gwylan said:
These are an extraordinary set of circumstances though. When clubs framed that rule it wasn't envisaged that a club would deliberately go into admin in order to be relegated. If there is a conspiracy to get one up on the bookies, then, by applying that rule, the EFL could be party to that conspiracy.

There's a lot to untangle at Wigan and it's early days, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility that there could be criminal charges brought against club officials and there's even a chance they could be brought against employees of the EFL. It's an unholy mess but the EFL could sidestep a lot of it by applying the penalty next season.
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Very much this. The EFL has a chance here to apply common sense and salvage something from the mess they have made by nodding through the two takeovers.

However, there are other fingers pointing at the EFL. They have failed to rule on points deductions for Derby's and Massive's sales of their ground to themselves. The precedents aren't good, as their ad hoc decision to deduct a meaningless number of points from Macclesfield for non-payment of wages has rival clubs fuming. A listen to El Presidente's very fine Price of Football podcast is very instructive on this..
 


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