Seems stupid to me though. More than one player makes a team. We're not talking about one game, this is a whole season of results.
Agreed, but if you take 3 points off them they get relegated. So it does equate to one game. But I agree that Sheffield Utd had it in their own hands and cocked it up. Ultimately it's the Premier League's fault. They shouldn't have allowed the transfer in the first place and then shouldn't have delayed the decision on it till the end of the season. The original tribunal made it pretty clear the only reason they went for a fine rather than points deduction was because it would be unfair on the fans to dock points so late in the season. Quite apart from the fact that no such criteria seem to have applied to us when we were demoted, the only reason it was so late in the season is because the Premier League sat on their hands for 8 months before calling a tribunal.
And the Sheffield United players are greedy cunts. They want a bonus for playing shit in effect.
Yes, that should be thrown out on its ear straightaway - the knock on effects of that as a precedent could be very worrying. Every season would be like the 2000 US election, we could forget the play-offs, the summer would be spent in court
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