This week, next week, next month… what does it matter?
Either way the PL are on a hiding to nothing as the optics are bleak for Masters whatever the outcome.
Give us any points back and it pulls the rug from under their claims of fairness, transparency and most importantly the ability to self govern.
Stand firm and don’t give points back, all hell breaks loose, the club gets relegated and goes into admin, the wider brand impact, more government scrutiny etc etc.
The lesser of two evils for them is to revoke the penalty, come out and say “we’ve listened” and are drawing up a “sustainable plan for football” or whatever marketing executive nonsense and deliver weeks of “time to move on for the good of the game” nonsense through the client journos.
Problem for the prem is the time to be decisive was months ago, they’ve only themselves to blame.
Whichever way this goes, we need to keep the heat on the cartel and show their precious world wide audience what a sham of a league this really is.