Burnley Legal Case

[Robioto]

Just makes me want to give up on national level and international football entirely this. It's completely broken.

After a bit of reflection, this isn't just a flippant comment, I really feel like I'm teetering on the edge. I put a lot of energy and passion into football, maybe that can go elsewhere now. I fell in love with the sport, not the ever expanding side show that now comes with top level football.

[TheRam]

[AjaxAndy]

Can anyone explain why Forest also aren't being sued despite also breaching PSR? Why is it just us?

[Lazarou II]

After a bit of reflection, this isn't just a flippant comment, I really feel like I'm teetering on the edge. I put a lot of energy and passion into football, maybe that can go elsewhere now. I fell in love with the sport, not the ever expanding side show that now comes with top level football.

I'm seriously wavering, take this with a pinch of salt but I can't really be arsed with the World Cup and all the baggage that goes along with the modern version of it.

It is not a sport, Football is just a money extraction device.

[blueToffee]

Can anyone explain why Forest also aren't being sued despite also breaching PSR? Why is it just us?

They probably could be now, with this precedent.

Potentially this opens the floodgates as before teams didn't think they had a legal claim.

[blueToffee]

Where do you even begin with this? I mean it's literally a meme now, dock us points, fine us, dodgy VAR, we're the club that's ok to kick around for the PL because we're big enough to seem like they're serious but not big enough to be able to do what Man City have done and hired an army of lawyers to try and slow roll a favourable decision over the line.

The logic of this feels worse than the other decisions though as really where does this stop? The obvious answer as with most of this stuff is with Everton. It opens the door though to every future event branching out from this now being subject to punishment? However, if this was applied equally then Forest should be next to get sued by anyone who finished below them, Chelsea's admittance of breaches that got them a 10 mil fine should invite law suits from every club they finished above which was most of them because they were winning leagues at that point. Finally Man City would literally cease to exist if every club below them could ask for compensation due to deferred punishment. They would be fighting legal cases for decades. Which really means the only way they can avoid that craziness is to find them not guilty of all of it.

It's just such a joke. I don't even know how an "independent panel" can be the exact same lot that deducted us 10 pts too.

[Sir Stealth]

The only positive I’ve found is that when I saw the thread title I instantly thought of the song ‘Barely Legal’ by The Strokes, and that is a tune

[Trowel]

Annual interest charged on the damages at 11.81%

[UnsyisaRhino]

I'm seriously wavering, take this with a pinch of salt but I can't really be arsed with the World Cup and all the baggage that goes along with the modern version of it.

It is not a sport, Football is just a money extraction device.

Like so many other things, seems like the world is rushing head first over the profitability cliff and the people making the most aren't arsed because they think they'll be isolated from the fallout.

Unfortunately, it's not limited to the top level. My lad's Sunday team signed up for a summer tournament, when they turned up for the first round of games, the organisers surprised everyone with an additional fee of £600 per team, for a 6 week league and it get's worse every year.

[NomadskiEFC]

And there we were, ready to settle down to a relaxing 2 months of football.

[Silas]

Will Mc Kenzie: I do like football, but Burnley. Burnley can fuck off.

[toffee_scot]

Burnley, a vile and insignificant yo-yo club.

I mean, when I think of Burnley FC I think Sean Dyche, Danny Ings, Ashley Barnes. Enough said.

[NickNack]

I thought I couldn’t be less bothered with football in general, now this.

It defies belief, credibility, logic, justice…it’s absolutely batshit crazy that Everton are sued for what was essentially the PL’s incompetence in applying the points deduction in the wrong season.

I mean it's a good job they did but if anyone should be compensating Burnley, it’s them not us.

[Gary1878]

It’s absolutely disgraceful and sets an extremely dangerous precedent. We need to be sueing any team that has finished above us and been found to have breached any rules of that is the case.

There is no way we are paying that.

[cassius]

Watch the PL bring in a new regulation in a few months time that stops clubs from suing other clubs