I thought it was a standard sanction? That would explain why absolutely everyone voted against it.
Noone wanted standard sanctions as there are so many individual circustances and mitigating factors. But i bet if Everton could vote again they would say they want standard sanctions as no mitigating factors or individual circumstances were taken into consideration in Evertons case.
If they are going to use some rules that are made up on the hoof for applying sanctions then surely they should be documented so that they are applied equally across the board? They can always make a caveat that there may be some mitigating factors, the same as in a court of law where they may adjust a penalty for instance if you were speeding to get someone to hospital.
The PL are destroying football by opening this whole can of worms and each club potentiall suing each other in a litigation merrygoround of never ending chaos.
The PL rules are clearly set up to protect the clubs that have already had financial doping in the past to climb to the top and now dont want anyone else to attack their revenues. Utter greed and its why the same clubs dominate constantly and noone else has a chance in hell breaking into the top 6.
I say good on City and Newcstle etc i hope they get away with it. Why should an owner not be able to put money into a club if they can afford it?
These clubs getting found guilt will only strengthen clubs like Liverpool, Man U etc that have a stranglehold on the money that flows in football and who managed to establish themsleves before these daft FFP rules were made up.