Burnley Awarded £35m From Everton

[St Chalet]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cqx1wqr3yjno

This on top of their massive 6 point deduction. In the article it suggested we were considering a legal claim along with Forrest.

[coalman]

10 minutes ago, St Chalet said:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cqx1wqr3yjno

This on top of their massive 6 point deduction. In the article it suggested we were considering a legal claim along with Forrest.

Meanwhile in Middlesborough as the news was being received.

[Saint86]

That's a bugger for us. Goes a long way to wiping out the first year reduction in parachute payments.

[Football Special]

Opens a can of worms, we'll end up with clubs taking out lawsuits against each other , lawyers will be delighted but the game is so far removed from the every day fan with all this nonsense 

Expect the appeal will take a while to be heard 

[Draino76]

This was the arbitration panel, apparently.

[obelisk]

It's getting to the stage where there'll be no point playing actual games of football. Get in a decent defence of highly paid lawyers and promotion will be available without even having to kick a ball soon.

I have to ask whether standing behind a tree with a camera watching events going on in public view is a better or worse offence than this though.

[Farmer Saint]

[pingpong]

Forget getting a new striker, who is going to be in the legal team next year? Can we get that lord panic guy involved?

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Think Everton are appealing. Also is this worse cheating than Spying ?

Funny if they say to Burnley, they can have Dibling instead.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by JohnnyShearer2.0

[badgerx16]

3 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Think Everton are appealing. 

Not my type.

Edited 1 hour ago by badgerx16

[saintant]

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Edited 1 hour ago by saintant

[Gloucester Saint]

Absolute mess. Pace may well use that money to pay down some of the debts accrued from their leveraged takeover.

[West Dean FC Legend]

Interesting response from Everton, ummm not saying they didn't do it, just saying it wasn't fair. Errrrr....the rules were there, it is your job to know them, you can't make excuses afterwards. So you are guilty of doing what you were charged with:

The club said in a statement they were "clear in the belief the ruling is fundamentally flawed in both law and fact".

"This ruling sets a dangerous and unworkable precedent for English football, given it is constructed on a principle that a club can be in breach of financial rules at any point in a financial year," the statement said.

[Soton7]

It sounds like the Premier League, EFL, FA and FIFA are a bunch of corrupt wankers who couldn’t run a bath. Absolutely useless.

[DellBlockH]

It makes you wonder how any football club can plan for the future. Everton were punished at the time and, presumably, thought that was it. Any claim by Burnley (or any other club) should have been dealt with then. The same goes for our recent transgression. Deal with it summarily and move on. Having several goes at the same offence helps no-one. 

Moving on to any claim against us that Middlesbrough might contemplate, I think it would be difficult for them to show that our spying denied them Premier League football. They rather managed that on their own.

[DellBlockH]

5 minutes ago, West Dean FC Legend said:

Interesting response from Everton, ummm not saying they didn't do it, just saying it wasn't fair. Errrrr....the rules were there, it is your job to know them, you can't make excuses afterwards. So you are guilty of doing what you were charged with:

The club said in a statement they were "clear in the belief the ruling is fundamentally flawed in both law and fact".

"This ruling sets a dangerous and unworkable precedent for English football, given it is constructed on a principle that a club can be in breach of financial rules at any point in a financial year," the statement said.

They are not saying that they didn’t commit the offence or that they shouldn't be punished (they were). They are saying that they cannot be held financially liable for Burnley's relegation. 

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, Soton7 said:

It sounds like the Premier League, EFL, FA and FIFA are a bunch of corrupt wankers who couldn’t run a bath. Absolutely useless.

didnt you know already?

[saintant]

It's getting to the stage where your team of lawyers is more important than your team of players.

[chownie20]

cant remember what happened that season but dont we equally have an argument too?

[Football Special]

30 minutes ago, saintant said:

It's getting to the stage where your team of lawyers is more important than your team of players.

Match of the Day coming live from the High Court 

[SWLondon Saint]

Jesus, what a mess. Can't see this ending well for anyone except the lawyers.

I remember someone was saying in the spygate thread that a lot of football, despite the big money, is really badly / incompetently run. This kind of thing just proves that....

[Harry_SFC]

This is getting ridiculous now 

Edited 26 minutes ago by Harry_SFC

[West Dean FC Legend]

51 minutes ago, DellBlockH said:

They are not saying that they didn’t commit the offence or that they shouldn't be punished (they were). They are saying that they cannot be held financially liable for Burnley's relegation. 

Thanks for that - you can tell I was an electrician for a while 😂

I would say that if they broke those rules, in Premiership football these clearly has an effect on your squad/managment and therefore it must affect results - therefore Burnley can easily claim what they did. Whether it is a much as that who knows but you can definitely argue that without such an advantage Everton may not have stayed up and Burnley might have - you can't prove it but you can't disprove it either. 

Anyway tactics - oh never mind them - who cares?! 🙃