Everton reacting to Nottingham Forest’s point deduction: ‘A lot of Everton fans are irked why Everton got 10 and Forest only got 6!’
Everton are feeling hard done by following the news of Nottingham Forest’s points deduction, it does however mean that the toffees can possibly begin to look up the Premier League table, as the race for survival continues.
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00:00 Well, on to Everton. Now, Nottingham Forest has been confirmed to have a four-point deduction
00:07 for breaching profits and sustainability rules. I mean, this, you know, you don't really ever
00:12 want to look at another club and think of, you know, what they're going through, as Everton
00:18 know all too well. But it does sort of play into Everton's hands, you know, in terms of
00:23 the relegation battle. How important is this for Everton? And, you know, we've mentioned
00:28 multiple times they can't rely on other clubs, you know, doing poorly. They've got to pick
00:31 up their results. But it is sort of good news, you know, for Everton and they can hopefully,
00:38 you know, continue in the league and try and continue to get better now.
00:41 Yeah, it is. But I think a lot of Everton fans are particularly ached why Forest have only got
00:49 four points and Everton have got six. That was originally ten. I mean, if you look at the
00:56 document from the Independent Commission from the Forest case, it said that Forest were working in
01:01 cooperation and those behind the scenes will be a little bit annoyed by that because they were
01:06 working with the Premier League for quite a while in terms of what they could do. And then the
01:11 Appeal Board dismissed that notion. So what happens here? Why have nothing in Forest? I think
01:18 it was six points and then minus two for mitigation. And, you know, Everton, then you
01:25 put on top of it the stadium costs are divided. And obviously the war in Ukraine affected Everton
01:32 because he has a lot of funding from Alessio Rusmanov and through his businesses for Everton.
01:37 You know, he has a whole deal on a new stadium as well. So Everton lost significant revenue on that
01:42 and their only fans to be guilty, 19.5 million, where I think Nottingham Park was 34.5 million.
01:49 So Everton are looking at that thinking, what has gone wrong here? Why have we been hit with this?
01:54 But back to the original point, yes, at least there has been a little bit of justice in Everton.
02:01 Have maybe one less rival to bully about as much in terms of the relegation battle.
02:11 They are four points clear. They do need to start picking up results on the pitch because
02:14 it's the winless in 11 games. And they are potentially, if they don't pick up, they are
02:21 going to be in another battle. I'm just adding up that alleged breach from last season, overhanging
02:28 them as well. And I think that case is to be heard the week beginning, you know, Easter week,
02:36 Easter, the week before Easter and Everton will hear maybe the week after that, then probably
02:40 the Tuesday after Easter Monday because it's a bank holiday. So we'll just see about that. But
02:46 yeah, I think you can understand why a lot of fans are calling for an independent
02:52 regulator now in football, because clearly there's no consistency here.
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