Everton are being punished for daring to dream - Man City spent a decade doing what they wanted

Here we go again… another charge for Everton.

We’d all like to be talking about football and how Everton could start climbing the table and closing the gap on the Premier League’s elite and we tried that when Farhad Moshiri came in. We’re still waiting on the result of the appeal against out 10-point deduction but hopefully that is over sooner rather than later so the players and managers can focus on the job at hand.

It’s disappointing that we’re wasting a lot of time and effort over this situation and it doesn’t seem right to me. For many years, a lot of Evertonians have questioned the way that the club was being run and were getting hushed by outside voices telling them that they were crazy but it’s now come to fruition that the club isn’t being run as well as we’d have liked.

Yes, we’ve got excuses but every club is in the same boat. We want to try and close the gap on the big six but now they’re going to get rid of these rules for next season which I find absolutely baffling.

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The only way for Everton to try and close that gap was to build a new stadium and generate more income. Unfortunately, we seem to be getting penalised for doing this and building a stadium at possibly the worst time ever after Covid-19 and with the war in Ukraine, which seems very harsh to me.

I remember reading a column by David Levy where he said timing was everything and he understands that if Tottenham Hotspur wanted to build their new stadium now then it would