Everton are now 15th in the Premier League table after they have had their 10-point deduction from November 2023 for breaching the EPL’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) reduced to six.The reduction of their points penalty will move Everton on to 25 points. The Merseyside club called the decision “wholly disproportionate and unjust” and appealed against it two weeks later.Everton’s points deduction has been reduced from 10 points to six, moving them into 15th 📈 pic.twitter.com/zpS4Zhtq5D— B/R Football (@brfootball) February 26, 2024 That appeal has now been partially successful, with four of the 10 points restored.A Premier League statement read: “An independent appeal board has concluded that the sanction for Everton FC’s breach of the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSRs), for the period ending season 2021/22, will be an immediate six-point deduction.##NAJAVA_MECA_7899462##”This follows the club’s appeal of an independent commission’s decision in November 2023 to impose a 10-point deduction for the club’s breach of the PSRs. The appeal was heard over three days earlier this month by an appeal board comprising Sir Gary Hickinbottom (chair), Daniel Alexander KC and Katherine Apps KC. Everton FC appealed the sanction imposed against it on nine grounds, each of which related to the sanction rather than the fact of the breach, which the club admitted. Two of those nine grounds were upheld by the appeal board, which has substituted the original points deduction of 10 for six. This revised sanction has immediate effect and the Premier League table will be updated today to reflect this.”
