everton only plead guilty to the charges once it became clear that the commission wasnt going to accept the mitigations.

i.e. cost of building a stadium in the inflationary period immediately following the outbreak of the ukraine war.

the cost of stadium finance subsequent to losing hundreds of millions of pounds of investment due to the same war. this equates to about 50m a year that we have to account for in psr. or did until TFG refinanced.

(these two were the same for everyone according to the commission. i could only see one stadium being built with russian investment).

paying gylfis wages up when he was suspended. we lost the player when we could have done with him and couldnt then spend his wages on a replacement.

(a business decision according to the commission).

balance this against utd claiming 40m quid for ratcliffe buying some shares and tell me we broke the rules.

the rules are what the league and then the commission (appointed by the league) choses to interpret - they are very vague. we got the hanging judge.

forest went bust by more having spent on players (we didnt) and got a lesser fine.

now we are a couple of years behind forest as they are in europe and happily spending money.

we were fucked over pure and simple.

the rules are a joke anyway. no inflationary clasue meant that eventually every club will end up breaching. unless of course the league decides you are a cash cow and doesnt refer you to a commission (utd again, and chelsea selling hotels)

saw a comment on line about everton cheating again by selling the womens team to create headroom.

i mean - "again". i would love to know what advantage we have got to show for trying to build a stadium. and where we actually cheated. that implies gaining an advantage. i would love anyone to show me where that has been hiding these past 4 years.

thats where ste's point comes in.