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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

Supporters should blame club owners – not the rules – for points deductions

Nottingham Forest fans holding aloft scarves
Nottingham Forest have been deducted four points for breaching the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

Welcome to the Premier League’s latest sensational product innovation: the courtroom drama relegation battle. Two things seem certain after the decision to dock four points from Nottingham Forest over breaches of profitability and sustainability rules. First, this isn’t over by any measure.

Buckle up for some really excellent legal wrangle content over the coming months as Forest, Everton and at least four other clubs cling like Indiana Jones on a collapsing rope bridge to a league table primed to shuffle and rejig with every fresh tribunal hearing and special circumstances appeal.

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