Recent content by marok

er..no, which is why I said "one of the options available to the PL" The PL have already admitted that they should have levied the punishment as soon as this came to light. So there is no way they could have known then which of the punishment options (if any) would send West Ham down. Don't...

You can't base the level of punishment on how effective the player was. Sheff Utd supremo McCabe keeps saying that there should have been a points deduction. So, would he have been happy if the hammers had been deducted 2 points (one of the options available to the PL). Of course not. He will...

O.K, I'll reword my initial statement:- The PL had a range of punishment options available to them. There was no precedent to draw from regarding this offence (nobody had previously committed it), hence a fine was not an unreasonable punishment. People keep talking about West Ham playing an...

The PL had a range of punishment options available to them. There was no precedent to draw from regarding this offence (nobody had previously committed it), hence a fine was a reasonable punishment. The nearest precedent that could be applied, was with Spurs (a few years back), who successfully...