Clutching at straws but what are the chances of the club having a hitherto unpublished 'dosier' of other clubs that have done the same thing, which they've been keeping up their sleeve if they felt a nuclear reaction was ever warranted?
After all, the club did state in it's original response to the EFL verdict that they were 'offering to help set up a commission to investigate the wider implications' (or words to that effect)... Why would they have said that if they had zero evidence of anyone else doing it, anecdotal or otherwise...?