Well well, the Premier League has grown a pair after handing out a massive ten point deduction to Everton FC after the club was found guilty of breaching profitability and sustainability regulations after reporting a loss of £372million over three-years – £122million more than the £250million permitted. Championship clubs Leicester City and Leeds, together with Burnley, are reportedTo have confirmed their intention to sue Everton for a total of £300million after the club were found guilty of breaching financial fair play rules. According to MailSport, senior figures at the three clubs held talks this afternoon to reaffirm their plans to sue after the Premier League confirmed Everton’s guilty verdict and 10-point deduction, the biggest in the competition’s history.
This is big news isn’t it? Man City owners and board members must be quacking 8n their boots having previously been charged with over 100 financial related breaches and possibly Chelsea too after the vast amount of money the club has spent since Todd Bohley took control of the club, plus, if the the PL digs deep, they might even find something untoward from the Roman Abramovich era.
Arsenal seem to be ok as far a finances go but the FA have slapped a misconduct charge on Mikel Arteta for the comments he made after the Newcastle match. The FA statement reads:
Mikel Arteta has been charged with a breach of FA Rule E3.1 following comments that he made in media interviews after Arsenal’s Premier League game against Newcastle United on Saturday, November 4. It’s alleged that his comments constitute misconduct as they are insulting towards match officials and/or detrimental to the game and/or bring the game into disrepute.
Mikel Arteta has until Tuesday to respond to this charge. I’ve no idea what kind of penalty he’ll receive if found guilty but I reckon the proverbial book will be thrown his way. A big fine and a touch line ban I suspect. Arsenal as a club could yet be in trouble too as according to The Telegraph “Tregulatory action will be taken against clubs if they support managers who criticise referees” – and as we know, the club publicly announced their support of Mikel Arteta by releasing an official statement.
If only the attention to detail within an investigation of financial breaching and post match interviews by managers was given to one of the major problems within the game. For far too long and far too often, those who officiate matches have been making mistakes. Yet nothing is being done about it. We have Dermot Gallagher on Sky Spirts giving his review on a Monday morning but after that, there’s nothing. The big carpet comes out and the glaringly obvious mistakes are quickly brushed under it. The occasional referee will be given a Championship match to officiate the weekend after his cockup but what hood does that do long term? None. Plus, why should he be deemed ok for the Championship? Send him off to Sunday League football, then he might think a bit harder about his job and how he can improve.
Mikel Arteta will be expected to keep quiet and behave himself in future though…
As for Everton and their ten point deduction, I read they’re likely to appeal. Successfully or not only time will tell but if their ten point deduction sticks, City could end up in League One if a few of the charges against stick…
Catch up in the comments…
From AFC.com.
Edu has won the Best European Director Award at Golden Boy 2023.
Hosted by Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport, the award acknowledges Edu’s work as our first-ever Sporting Director, which he began almost one year ago on November 18, 2022, after re-joining the club in the summer of 2019 as Technical Director.
Since then, he has overseen the signings of several key players that have contributed to Mikel Areta’s squad, including Leandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior, Jorginho, Kai Havertz, Jurrien Timber, Declan Rice and David Raya, who joined on loan in the summer.
Congratulations, Edu!
Saka, Rice and Ramsdale are all on the bench tonight.
Let’s wait and see what happens in the appeal before getting excited about Everton’s well deserved points penalty.
Good, hopefully England win tonight, top the group and they all get rested in the second match.
If they win an appeal, what’s the point? No pun intended 😂
For my sins I watched the England game it was embarrassing. An own goal to give us a 1 – 0 lead, not a shot on target until about 50 minutes, then Saka set up Kane for a tap in. Finally Rice hit the back of the net but thanks to Kane loitering in the area the goal was rightly ruled out for offside. Oh and Kane got booked for diving in an attempt to claim a penalty.
No matter who Southgate picks and whatever formation he plays I just do not see any real cohesion or signs of improvement.
The even though England are guaranteed to top the group, the headline to Southgate’s after match interview “We are not where we want to be” says it all.
I watched some of the game too, Big Brother was far more entertaining and that’s saying something on a final night. Lol
Afternoon Rico and all, I feel a tiny bit of sympathy for Everton, how long has Man C been doing the same thing and winning title and getting away with it.
It’s the Premier League picking the low hanging fruit Geoff. The Everton case is so straight forward and easy to penalise. Ten points deducted in the current season and as far as the authorities are concerned that’s it done and dusted. It’s now up to the clubs relegated in the past three seasons to take any action they consider will be financially beneficial to them.
In the City case punishing them with points deductions in previous seasons is opening a can of worms with the legal processes which would follow so convoluted it would take years to sort out.
I don’t expect any punishment to be handed down before the end of the current season, when an immediate relegation would be a quick and clean way to wrap things up.
Reading 5 Arsenal 2 U21….. ????
Hi Geoff, I don’t. It’s about time punishments were dished out in the PL as they are in the lower leagues.
It’s not actually the PL Cicero, it’s an independent board who set the penalty.
Rico I agree all cheaters should be penalised, the only reason why I feel a very little bit of sympathy for Everton is Man c have won titles and yet no action taken
It’s a bit different for City Geoff, 100 odd charges to prepare evidence for.
At least with Everton getting a hefty penalty, City should get much much worse if found guilty.
Another good win for the women..
Almost too comfortable, Rico. An early first goal, total control, played with composure and dealt easily with such threats that Brighton offered. Wrapped up with two more goals. Great to see Beth Mead start a game on the anniversary of the injury which kept her out for so long.
Saving their energy Cicero. Lol
Absolutely re Mead, Arsenal and England have missed her.
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/stan-kroenke-already-made-550m-28138088
Reflections from an Amercian standpoint . Dodged a bullet it seems.
I have to admit to wanting Usmanov to takeover but boy am I glad he didn’t. A# you say,w3 dodged a bullet, especially as the previous Everton owner was in with him..
Rico at 3:57pm could not have said it any better.
On the bright side at least we don’t have any more protest at games asking Kroenke to leave or invest in the club.
Hopefully if ther are any big bill to come, it’s only for any upgrades to the stadium.
Another great night for English football NOT.
We undoubtedly have some very good players, as well as a few duds, but they do not gel as a team. Either they are unsuited to the style of play favoured by Southgate or they are just not motivated by his coaching. Sluggish in playing out from the back, careless in possession and content to play in front of the packed defence of their, supposedly, inferior opponents.
We are about to go into the finals of a major tournament and Souhgate, by his own admission, is still learning but about what he doesn’t make clear. At this stage he shouldn’t be experimenting with full backs playing in midfield, Alexander Arnold, and a rookie at left back who has played most of his very few club games in midfield.
Loyalty to his players is all very laudable, but when it comes to persistently selecting out of form, and not very good central defenders, Maguire, and totally out of form and self-belief forwards, Rashford it’s stretching that loyalty beyond all reason.
It’s too late to replace Southgate for this tournament, but surely his masters at the Football Association must be scratching their collective heads over who to appoint in his place when the inevitable early return home from the finals next summer forces them into action.
Question is, who do England replace him him with? Potter seems the obvious choice, off the top of my head anyway. Unless the FA opt for a non English manager.
Glad I don’t have take the choice Rico. 😕
Me too Cicero..
New post up.