Another Premier League Attack

 The views in this blog are just my opinion based on what I've read about the new charge against Everton Football Club from the Premier League.

It's disgusting that we now have to face a second charge, seventy-five percent of which we have already been punished for and are yet to have our day in court to appeal. How is that possible? How is that legal?

From what I have read in the Athletic, The Echo, and TheEsk on X who seems to know an awful lot of the inner workings of this whole thing, we have already been punished for the  19/20, 20/21 and 21/22 seasons. Why, then, are these same seasons being brought up again in the new charge? You can't be charged for the same crime twice, surely, unless they've got new evidence. In which case why wasn't that brought up in the first commission hearings?

This whole things seems like it will be rumbling on for years as we go from commission hearing to appeal court month after month. The good news is that this new charge cannot be heard by the "Independent Commission" until our appeal has already been heard.

It stinks and the odour isn't just filling the nostrils of Everton fans, it's worldwide and now Nottingham Forest have been dragged in front of the firing squad as well; a club who spent massively to build a team worthy of just surviving in the Premier League. It's not like their team got that much of a sporting advantage when the same year they stayed up, Manchester City won the league...again... the FA Cup and the Champions League.

PSR seems to be designed to keep less rich clubs from competing for the same resources as those already sat at the high table. I refuse to use the bigger club/smaller club analogy as I refuse the argument that Manchester City are a bigger club that Everton or Chelsea and Tottenham for that matter. Everton Football Club's name is woven into the fabric of the rich tapestry of English football history. What did Manchester City win until they got their oil baron sugar daddy?

The Premier League is running scared because the British government has threatened them with oversight; which has long since been overdue, at least into how they operate at the top level.

I fail to see what sporting advantage Everton stand to have gained from any of this. We have been badly mismanaged both at board level and in terms of the actual team itself, stuck in a perpetual downward spiral with misguided player transfers and even more questionable managerial appointments which we have had to pay out once we realised, almost too late, just how bad they were.

We are currently in the process of attempting to better our standing in world football by paying for our own new stadium. Something the Premier League has hinted that we have needed to do for some time. I'm sure I remember we were told Goodison Park wouldn't be up to the Premier League's standard and we had to improve it or move out by a certain deadline at some point in the last ten years; hence why we have had three attempts at moving since the beginning of the 2000s.

Each time we tried, we were sold a dream and now that we are making that dream a reality; which the Premier League should be delighted about and surely take into consideration when handing out punishments.

Why would the Premier League not want to encourage teams to challenge from a level playing field? The ones at the top table have already spent hundreds of millions to build themselves up to a solid foundation. Would they not want the other clubs to be able to do that same thing, so that the League is more competitive?

I'm probably waffling and talking in sound bites at this point but this has been a bit of a stream of conscious. I'll leave it there. UTFT!!

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