Everton decision could cause bigger Premier League problem as Super League verdict nears

The result on the pitch may not have gone the way Everton fans had hoped on Sunday, but they made their voices heard in calling out the Premier League over the sanctions placed upon the club.

Ahead of Everton’s first game since an independent commission upheld a charge against the Toffees of breaching profit and sustainability regulations that resulted in an immediate 10-point deduction, supporters marched to Goodison Park in huge numbers.

The feeling among Evertonians, and many in the wider football community, is that the punishment doesn’t match the crime, and that the club have been handed an overly harsh deduction for what was a £20m overspend where it was not defined by the commission that any competitive advantage was gained.

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That is an argument that Leeds United, Burnley and Leicester City, clubs relegated in seasons where Everton just managed to stay up, will try and make in a bid to seek some kind of financial compensation following the decision passed down by the independent commission earlier this month.

Many Everton fans held up placards with the world ‘corrupt’ emblazoned on them, while during the Manchester City and Liverpool game on Saturday, a game screened live on Sky Sports and beamed around the world, a plane flew over the Etihad Stadium with a trailing banner that read ‘Premier League = corrupt’. The plane and banner had been funded by the 1878 Everton Supporters Group.

A league that has been on a rapid growth incline for many years now, buoyed by bumper media deals that have seen them pull away from their major European competitors in Spain, Italy,