23-01-2022, 04:55 PM
(20-01-2022, 01:21 PM)optimistic_red Wrote:(20-01-2022, 10:54 AM)wassy04 Wrote:(20-01-2022, 08:26 AM)Plymouth red Wrote: What annoys me is that derby cheated and now the club wants sympathy.
What really annoys me is that they came so close to their cheating actually paying off. If they had won the playoffs and got in the premier league does any of their cheating come to light? I doubt it.
They are in this situation because they got caught. They deserve everything they get. In fact, if they enter liquidation then i'm afraid they have no one to blame. They've defrauded the football league, they've defrauded other teams and now they are trying to defraud the tax payer.
Quite frankly a fresh start with a phoenix club might actually help get rid of the stench of cheating.
I hope we fecking smash them at the weekend.
Exactly this, if they went up they would not be suffering at all. EFL wouldn't have been able to touch them. They failed now it's time to live with the consequences. Ultimately as sad as it is to see a team liquidated, you can't make special arrangements because that will encourage others to take similar risks in the future. The deterrent has to be there, hopefully for their sake someone generously puts up enough for them to survive/pay some of the debts so they can keep going and gradually pay back what they owe.
Alternatively, bye bye.
Yeah its S**t for Derby, both they and Villa were "cheating on FFP", winner is fine, loser f@cked.
The system needs fixing so that getting promotion isn't a get out of jail free card.
Therein lies the big problem in all of this; getting promotion is no longer a get out of jail free card.
The EFL and the PL have a cast iron agreement that any promoted club who have broken the rules will be charged accordingly.
Derby, Villa and Wednesday sold assets to parent Companies to circumvent the P & S rules, but only Derby have been charged.
Wednesday were deducted points, not for selling the Ground, but for recording the sale in the wrong set of accounts.
Villa have got away scot free.
If you remember the EFL failed in their attempts to impose a penalty on Derby for the Ground sale; in fact, had it not been for going into administration, it is extremely doubtful whether the EFL would have attempted to penalise them for their accounting practices relating to amortisation.
The EFL will have a lot of questions to answer when this is all over because the way they have conducted themselves would suggest they are not fit for purpose.