West Brom Points Deduction???

[jackharris]

West Brom face points deduction which could relegate them over alleged breach

Championship strugglers West Bromwich Albion have been charged with an alleged breach of financial rules but are fighting to delay any possible sanctions until next season

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[bakajack]

This would be... interesting
West Brom desperate to pull off every delaying tactic possible to make any penalties hit next season rather than this
Depending on the last few games this might help Oxford escape the drop and send them down along with Leicester.

Now THAT would be funny and would no doubt serve as a message from the FA to other clubs about managing finances.

 

[jackharris]

If I could have my way I would like it to be Blackburn and Leicester to go down with Wednesday. Blackburn because it’s so far away and we now seem to play them mid week. Leicester because it’s just funny after their fans saying ‘Poor Swansea’ on their message boards after they got Sousa as their manager. Also because they had some fans who were moaning the league was too easy for them the last time they got promoted, which it was for a while 3 seasons back because they had a multimillion pound Prem squad.

I don’t want Oxford or Portsmouth to be relegated because with Pompey it’s nice to have South Coast sides to play and with Oxford it is not another Northern team and is not too bad to get to. If West Brom get the points deduction, I hope it is Leicester who joins them if they get relegated.

 

[J_B]

If I could have my way I would like it to be Blackburn and Leicester to go down with Wednesday. Blackburn because it’s so far away and we now seem to play them mid week. Leicester because it’s just funny after their fans saying ‘Poor Swansea’ on their message boards after they got Sousa as their manager. Also because they had some fans who were moaning the league was too easy for them the last time they got promoted, which it was for a while 3 seasons back because they had a multimillion pound Prem squad.

I don’t want Oxford or Portsmouth to be relegated because with Pompey it’s nice to have South Coast sides to play and with Oxford it is not another Northern team and is not too bad to get to. If West Brom get the points deduction, I hope it is Leicester who joins them if they get relegated.

Yes, "poor Swansea" because they got Sousa and we got some bloke called Brendan Rodgers.
That aged well.

 

[bakajack]

If I could have my way I would like it to be Blackburn and Leicester to go down with Wednesday. Blackburn because it’s so far away and we now seem to play them mid week. Leicester because it’s just funny after their fans saying ‘Poor Swansea’ on their message boards after they got Sousa as their manager. Also because they had some fans who were moaning the league was too easy for them the last time they got promoted, which it was for a while 3 seasons back because they had a multimillion pound Prem squad.

I don’t want Oxford or Portsmouth to be relegated because with Pompey it’s nice to have South Coast sides to play and with Oxford it is not another Northern team and is not too bad to get to. If West Brom get the points deduction, I hope it is Leicester who joins them if they get relegated.

Don't forget the fact that they got promoted while completely disregarding the financial fair play rules set out by the FA for the Championship that season and argued (with the Premier League agreeing with them) that the FA didn't have the authority to levy a punishment against a Premier League side.

When they got relegated and the Premier League charged them with the same thing they tried to argue that the Premier League didn't have the authority to punish a Football Association team. Unlike when the FA appealed to them and they washed their hands of it when the shoe was on the other foot the PL didn't spare any resources to lobby with the FA to change the rules so that Leicester could be punished.

 

[IsraJack]

Regarding that, a very troubling article:

Is the Championship heading for financial 'catastrophe'

 

[Ringwood]

I doubt the reduction will kick in this season.

 

[Dewi1jack]

Just thinking.
Leicester are the most obnoxious fans we go up against.
West Brom joining them gets another set of obnoxious fans gone.
Coventry going up gets rid of a 3rd set of obnoxious b'stards
Pity Derby can't get relegated instead of Wednesday. Doubt that they'll make the play offs.
We'd make it a clean sweep of obnoxious fans gone

 

[jack_lord]

Just thinking.
Leicester are the most obnoxious fans we go up against.
West Brom joining them gets another set of obnoxious fans gone.
Coventry going up gets rid of a 3rd set of obnoxious b'stards
Pity Derby can't get relegated instead of Wednesday. Doubt that they'll make the play offs.
We'd make it a clean sweep of obnoxious fans gone

Always remember when we played Detby in your cup at the Vetch and walking to the ground with a bunch of their fans in front of me slagging of Swansea as a shithole. The irony of them walking along a 6 mile coastal beachfront calling Swansea a shithole

 

[cmajack]

Always remember when we played Detby in your cup at the Vetch and walking to the ground with a bunch of their fans in front of me slagging of Swansea as a shithole. The irony of them walking along a 6 mile coastal beachfront calling Swansea a shithole

They are all the same, the likes of Bradford, West Brom and Luton calling Swansea a dump, dear me.

 

[Menston4128]

They are all the same, the likes of Bradford, West Brom and Luton calling Swansea a dump, dear me.

That made me laugh, Bradford calling somewhere else a dump. The best part of Bradford is Ilkley however it's not really in Bradford and uses a Leeds postcode.

As for the rest of Bradford it ranges from dump (the better places) to absolute sh$thole. However in this woke world we all live in someone deemed it the city of culture in 2025

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Read one of the first articles on this and it said 3pt deduction at most with 1 point taken off for good behaviour so max 2 pt deduction. Also likelihood is in favor of it not being applied to this season

 

[magicdaps10]

Would be in our best interest if any deduction came into place was for next season.
Its such a tough playing field and we are safe from relegation this season.

 

[Magic_Michu]

I think we'll have a real go at Top 8 next season.

I don't think the teams coming up will be anywhere near as strong as the teams that came up from last season. Having spent a season filming a LOT of League 1 games with them up the road this season I was astonished to see how bad the quality is down there, compared to the championship.

Lincoln are awful and they're running away with the league.

Leicester going down will help up because they would surely have been better next season.

If Spurs come down they're almost guaranteed Top Spot next season, you'd have thought. Then the rest will be all to play for.

 

[monmouth]

I think we'll have a real go at Top 8 next season.

I don't think the teams coming up will be anywhere near as strong as the teams that came up from last season. Having spent a season filming a LOT of League 1 games with them up the road this season I was astonished to see how bad the quality is down there, compared to the championship.

Lincoln are awful and they're running away with the league.

Leicester going down will help up because they would surely have been better next season.

If Spurs come down they're almost guaranteed Top Spot next season, you'd have thought. Then the rest will be all to play for.

The three that come down next year will go back up.