Everton: Question Premier League must answer shared after Nottingham Forest points deduction
The Premier League has a question to answer over the disparity in punishments handed out to Everton and Nottingham Forest for Profit and Sustainability breaches, Liverpool Echo journalist Connor O’Neill has said.
Everton had a 10-point deduction for breaking financial rules reduced to six after an appeal against their punishment was partially upheld. They could still lose more points depending on the outcome of a hearing for a second breach.
Forest found out on Monday that they will lose four points for their breach and O’Neill thinks there should be some further clarity as to why.
Posting on X (18 March), he wrote: “While Nottingham Forest’s points deduction is a boost for #EFC and others at the bottom, yet again, it is a case of more questions than answers emerging from the process. The first question the Premier League needs to answer is why #EFC were deducted six points and #NFFC four.”
Why did Nottingham Forest receive fewer points than Everton for PSR breach?
It appears as though Forest had two points knocked off of their punishment for mitigating factors and for their cooperation with the independent commission ruling on their breach of PSR rules.
But that will do little to appease Everton supporters who will, rightly, be seething that they have lost six points (originally 10, of course) and could yet lose more points depending on the outcome of a second breach.
All it will do is increase the feeling among supporters that Everton have been unfairly treated throughout the process and there is now going to be a feeling of complete mistrust over the process.
Every supporter just wants to focus on the pitch and staying in the league but this situation has cast a dark cloud over their entire season. Hopefully, the Toffees can pick up enough points to make sure it makes no difference but right now there will be a feeling of understandable anger.
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