Burnley Case

[Leylo]

Can't we just give them Barry and call it quits

 

[Root66]

Because they don't want the oversight of a government authority.

They've now pissed off billionaire trump donating Texans.

Once Trump and vance have finished with Somalilans on X I expect the PL to come up

 

[Saint Domingo]

They shouldn’t get a penny for inflicting us with Michael Keane for 10 years

 

[evertony]

Takes the spotlight off the growing pressure on Dour Dave I suppose.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

You know it’s bad when Rollo Tomassi starts angry reacting everyone again

Just when I thought I was out.

 

[Frenk]

Just imagine in the unlikely event that we were running away with the league the extremes they’d go to in order to sabotage us. Absolutely disgusting, sue the hell out of them.

 

[Quadvod]

We must have the sh***ist legal team- get taken to the cleaners every time. Does double jeopardy not apply in this kangaroo court

 

[Jebus_lives]

I wonder if at appeal we can argue that Burnley's losses were caused not just by our breach, but also by the league's delayed and poor enforcement of their own rules.

The line would hold that:

A) The Premier League's enforcement was delayed.
B) The league itself didn't know what the appropriate 'sporting sanction' should have been at the time. (They said it could be capable of giving a sporting advantage, but this ruling specifically says it did).
C) as such, it's impossible to know with confidence what the league table would have looked like at the end of the season.
D) so, other factors would've caused the relegation.

But, I'd be worried if I were the premier league as it leaves them wide open to people suing them as the regulator. Can of worms.

 

[Jebus_lives]

We must have the sh***ist legal team- get taken to the cleaners every time. Does double jeopardy not apply in this kangaroo court

I think the main issue we have is that we did actually breach.

 

[Tipp blue]

So alternate realities have a place in proceedings now, If Everton were deducted points then Burnley had a better chance of staying up, What actually did happen after our points deduction a loss to United followed by a run of 4 wins on the bounce, did we even counter their alternate reality by pointing out a fact of us picking up points after a deduction. An average lawyer could have won this case.

• Nottingham Forest 0–1 Everton
• Everton 3–0 Newcastle United
• Everton 2–0 Chelsea
• Burnley 0–2 Everton

 

[NathDogg]

Glad I saved these. Save the 1878s a few quid.

 

[Big Sams Undies]

We must have the sh***ist legal team- get taken to the cleaners every time. Does double jeopardy not apply in this kangaroo court

 

[Blue83]

I wonder if at appeal we can argue that Burnley's losses were caused not just by our breach, but also by the league's delayed and poor enforcement of their own rules

Let's not complicate things, just tell it how stupidly it is, Burnley are suing us because of a choice the PL made in enforcing rules & applying punishments that everybody including Burnley agreed to

 

[dannyboy]

So alternate realities have a place in proceedings now, If Everton were deducted points then Burnley had a better chance of staying up, What actually did happen after our points deduction a loss to United followed by a run of 4 wins on the bounce, did we even counter their alternate reality by pointing out a fact of us picking up points after a deduction. An average lawyer could have won this case.

• Nottingham Forest 0–1 Everton
• Everton 3–0 Newcastle United
• Everton 2–0 Chelsea
• Burnley 0–2 Everton

This is exactly what I was thinking. The whole season and our approach to it changes. Think we'd have still somehow found enough to stay up mainly because Burnley were and still are an absolutely crap football team.

We're being penalised for a completely hypothetical scenario that didn't and won't ever exist. What a dangerous precedent this sets for the Premier League. No doubt we will be the first and only victims of this.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Don't even know what that means

could it be that the £40m compo will be taken care of by the PL out of their pocket via reducing Everton fc plc tv payments?