EVERTON ARE EPL's FINANCIAL CHEATS - REALLY?
Everton Football Club have received an immediate 10-point deduction after being found to have breached the top flight's financial rules.
Let that sink in ... EVERTON - who have barely escaped relagation in the last two seasons - are going to be made the scapegoat and poster boy for the Engish Premier League financial rules - and have been docked 10 points.
Everton say they have not been given clarity on how the commission reached the figure of 10 points and sources believe a sporting sanction for a technical breach on the accountancy of building their new stadium is not appropriate.
English top-flight clubs are permitted to lose £105m over three years, and an independent commission found Everton's losses to 2021-22 amounted to £124.5m.
Given Covid-19's impact on 1.5 of those seasons - given the fact that Everton dropped a Russian sponsorship due to Ukraine war - and given the fact that they're barely holding on - how exactly dos Everton's £19.5m really hurt anyone?
Meanwhile MANCHESTER CITY who are facing 115 charges, and who have clearly spent outside their ability to earn for the last 10 seasons, completely imbalancing the playing field and buying success with oil money .. carry on unaffected. Their case rumbles on and on - probably waiting for the statute of limitations to expire.
The Premier League powers that be seem to love a bit of oil money - so I guess it gets spread around ... and everyones snout is in the money bag taking their cut ??
When it come to financial doping or financial imbalance it won't come as a shock that I reckon CHELSEA and MANCHESTER CITY are at fault - and while EVERTON might have overspent it's hardly a major issue.
What is a major issue is that all of these "due process" calls seem to be favouring the new dirty money clubs - and do not seem to be providing a level playing field for all clubs.
AND THIS IS STILL A FOUL !! GET VAR OUT !!
But given that the Premier League are still backing their VAR who somehow decided that THIS wasn't a foul in the final phase of oil-rich Newcastle's goal against Arsenal ... I hardly expected any better from them.
Look I'm a simple guy. I pretty much evaluate what I see and call bullsh!t when it's bullsh!t and the "goal" above was scored due to a clear foul - and if the referee didn't see it then it's VARs job to clear it up- They did NOT do that.
Just get VAR out of the game if they can't even rule on this clearly. I'm OK if the referee misses a foul and a goal. I played footy for 45 years since the age of five - and I get that the referee can't be everywhere.
But VAR can be and I thought that the pay-off for putting up with 1-2 minute waits was getting things right. If VAR can't do that then let's get back to instant decisions, referee calls only, and fans reacting when goal are scored - not waiting around for 120 seconds and some law-waiving (or corrupt) twerp behind a video monitor to get it wrong.
How much money is being paid to VAR and "INDEPENDANT" COMMISIONS to get these decisions so wrong? Inquiring minds want to know. What's your price?
