Everton points deduction: appeal verdict rumours swirl but Blues can save themselves
Manager Sean Dyche describes it as “the noise” and implores his players to do their best to ignore it but the off-the-field distractions that seem to be omnipresent around Everton these days have reached a fever pitch ahead of the Crystal Palace game.
A nine-day gap between fixtures since what was already an early kick-off against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium for Everton last time out has produced a longer build-up and with so many issues remaining unresolved, speculation naturally fills the vacuum between an absence of hard facts. When the Blues visited the reigning English, European and World champions, well-placed sources were envisaging a result to their points deduction appeal verdict that coming week.
Former Everton chief executive Keith Wyness said: “I’m bullish on a positive outcome close to Valentine’s Day – hopefully a bouquet of roses rather than the thorns we’ve been getting recently.” The postman didn’t come knocking with any flowers or note to Goodison Park though.
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Everton’s appeal – which the ECHO understands ran for three days from Wednesday January 31-Friday February 2 – was presented to a fresh independent commission than the one that hit them with the most severe sporting sanction in 135 years of English top flight football for a single Financial Fair Play breach back in November. In the build-up to the club’s appeal hearing many high-profile politicians, both Evertonians and non-Blues, including Steve Rotheram, the Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, who is an unabashed Reds fan, spoke out vehemently against both the harshness of
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