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Cheatski are still scum

The people who are entrusted with the management and integrity of the game are not fit for purpose.
Football is our national game but they have allowed overseas investors and managers to run OUR clubs. That's a xenophobic view I admit but I feel clubs have lost that link they had with their fans.
I don't have the love of the game I had, in fact I dislike many of the people involved in it as most appear to have lost sense of fair play and natural justice.
I understand the world has changed from my youth and people want to be associated with winners rather than their local teams, the saturation of the sport in all forms of media as bred a different type of follower and not for the better.
 
Both them and City should have their records expunged

(and Pompey and probably Leicester - any financial shenanigans that a club benefitted through overspending or by paying out brown paper envelopes should be taken).
 
Chelsea's record of financial cheating is far worse but don't forget Scholar was guilty of illegal payments. Sugar got the points deduction and FA cup ban overturned as he succesfully argued it happened under the previous owner , so whose titles and cup wins do we expunge from the records.

PS The article is not stricty accurate , both Everton & Forest knowingly broke the rules , may have been by a small amount but both owners of those clubs knew they were in the wrong, you can read all the findings of the judicial panel and the reasoning behind those points deductions. Also seems to be no mention of UEFA in the article, these illegal payments by Abramovith have been dealt with by UEFA ages ago with a 10 million Euro fine and the reason PL and UEFA issued fines is that this was all agreed between UK governement , the PL and UEFA when the new owners took over.

"while smaller clubs like Nottingham Forest and Everton get whacked with a points deduction for inadvertently breaching spending limits by a few quid."


PSS
You only need to go back and look at the Chelsea takeover to know it was only ever going to be fines.

www.football.london

New Chelsea owner Todd Boehly held back £100m from total purchase price

Chelsea news: The takeover saga spanning three months ended with Todd Boehly’s completed purchase of Chelsea
www.football.london www.football.london
 
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They are never going to impose serious sporting sanctions on clubs they know can afford to fight them all the way in the courts and potentially show them up as just a paper tiger. They'll only ever go after the low-hanging fruit. The ones for whom the cost of losing a legal battle would be deemed too big a risk.
 
So the money that was supposed to go to war victims is paying the fine. Didn't think I could hate them anymore guess I was wrong bunch of clams

The £10.75m fine for secret payments during Roman Abramovich's ownership is being paid via a £150m fund reserved during the club's 2022 sale, reported the Observer. This arrangement means the cost effectively comes from proceeds originally destined for Ukrainian war victims, as the money is deducted from funds meant to be distributed by a charity, rather than being paid out of the new owners' pockets,
Key details:
  • The Fine: Chelsea FC was fined £10.75m by the Premier League for breaking financial rules between 2011 and 2018, as reported by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
  • Source of Funds: The money comes from a $150m fund set aside by BlueCo (the new owners) during the sale to cover potential liabilities from the previous regime.
  • Impact on Charity: The funds for these penalties are deducted from the money that was intended to go to Ukraine war victims, effectively reducing the final donation amount from the sale
 
mudshark said:
They are never going to impose serious sporting sanctions on clubs they know can afford to fight them all the way in the courts and potentially show them up as just a paper tiger. They'll only ever go after the low-hanging fruit. The ones for whom the cost of losing a legal battle would be deemed too big a risk.
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No need to go to court, the precedent has been set in 1994 by Tottenham Hotspur FC and Alan Sugar.
 
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