This is a mad precedent to set. Surely opens the door to other teams making similar claims and then where does it end.
The following season Everton survive by 2 points ahead of Leicester but can Leicester now argue Everton benefitted in that season from the breach the previous season? Or that Everton shouldn’t have been there at all? If we’d dropped points against them that season (we didn’t) and then lost the league by a point could we have some form of case against them?
And all of this from five years ago so how far can anyone go back? And how do Everton now account for a £35m hole and does that impact whatever is replacing PSR?
It’s a nonsense that the punishments come so late after the offence and basically impacts an entirely different season. I get the accounts need sorting and that takes time but it makes a mockery of two seasons.
I wonder if there would have been some sort of indemnity clause in the contract when the owners bought the club with either the previous owners or insurance reimbursing any monies the new owners have to pay out for the previous transgressions?
Just Googled this… Sounds like the sweets can no longer be thrown into the crowd in case they cause an accident :0)
Typical Everton eh..
Everton mints are no longer thrown into the crowd at the stadium. Due to modern health and safety regulations, the Toffee Lady—who officially returned for this era at the new waterfront Hill Dickinson Stadium—now hands out the mints from a basket rather than hurling them into the stands. [1, 2, 3]
The traditional customs at the club feature:
How to get them: The Toffee Lady (and occasional Toffee Girl) walks around the pitchside, greets supporters in the Plaza, and visits the Family Stand before kick-off to hand out the sweets directly. [1] The Tradition: The mints are individually wrapped boiled sweets with distinctive black and white stripes and a chewy toffee centre. The sweet-tossing custom dates all the way back to the 1890s and local sweet shop owners like Old Ma Bushell and Mother Noblett.
