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So Chelsea secretly pay out £47.5m in brown envelopes to players & agents for 7 years helping them sign players like Hazard and gain sporting advantage while winning multiple trophies..
PUNISHMENT: £10m fine
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Everton meanwhile, slightly breach PSR, overspending by £19.5m over the allowable £105m limit in one period, largely linked to stadium investment & COVID impacts.
PUNISHMENT: 10 point deduction followed by a another 2 point deduction both which directly affected their league position and prize money whilst risking being relegated from the Premier League.. AND now have to pay Burnley £40m for alleged lost earnings due to Everton’s “unfair advantage!?”
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One club hid tens of millions in shady payments for years and got a slap on the wrist. The other got hammered with points lost, risked being relegated, costing millions in prize money for league placement and now have to pay compensation to clubs as well!?
The disparity in severity, sporting impact and deterrence makes the rules look ridiculous and unfair.
“Big” clubs get no consequences for their actions, while Everton are the league’s whipping boy suffering multiple existential hits.
Why are Everton treated so differently to every other club in the league!?
Interesting that in the Everton points deduction verdict the Premier League said “A financial penalty for a club that enjoys the support of a wealthy owner is not a sufficient penalty” and that “the requirements of deterrence, vindication of compliant clubs, and the protection of the integrity of the sport demand a sporting sanction in the form of a points deduction’.
Presumably the Chelsea fine (which ultimately is just a deduction from what billion dollar Clearlake will pay to billionaire Abramovich from the £150m held back at the deal date) is then neither punishment, a deterrent or protecting the integrity of the sport?
If I was an Everton or Forest fan would not be happy with this outcome.
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Town today looked boss with blues everywhere. Just as it did after the last game at Goodison.
Every home game wear blue. Put flags up outside boozers. Make the City Centre Everton.
We need to use this new ground to start stamping our club onto the City for everyone to see.
It’s 29 years ago today since Everton beat Blackburn 3-0 at Ewood Park 🔵⚽️
Daniel Amokachi opened the scoring with 20 minutes to go before Andrei Kanchelskis netted a brace.
Everton have seemingly replaced Calvert-Lewin and Mangala with prime Drogba and Lampard.
What a half - again! This is how the last season at Goodison *should* feel #EFC
The last ever Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park is almost upon us
🔵⚪️ Everton v Liverpool 🔴⚪️
Before this fixture is played at the Grand Old Lady for the final time, I’ve made this video of the greatest ever Goodison derby moments… 🎥▶️
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