'I doubt it' - Pat Nevin asks Premier League points deductions question after Everton 'shambles'

Pat Nevin doubts whether other clubs will face the same kind of extreme punishments that his former club Everton have been given this season for breaching the Premier League’s PSR rules.

Everton were slapped with an immediate 10-point deduction back in November, the biggest sporting sanction in 135 years of English top-flight football at the time, and although that was reduced to six points on appeal, they were given a further two-point deduction on Monday for breaching again. Goodison Park chiefs say they will again appeal against the second verdict while Nottingham Forest, who in between Everton’s cases were given a smaller four-point deduction for a larger breach than the Blues initial case, are also appealing.

The Premier League’s current profit and sustainability rules are to remain in place for next season despite clubs agreeing unanimously to change the rules in principle at a meeting on Thursday. A vote on whether to move to a model adopted by UEFA, which permits squad spending to a ratio of revenue and player sales, will take place in June but with details still to be worked out, the current system will remain in place.

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Nevin, 60, who played 150 games for Everton, scoring 21 goals between 1988-92, wrote in the BBC Football Extra newsletter: “Everton have had another two points taken off them. It is painful, losing 10, getting four back and then losing another two.

“This entire story has felt like a shambles on all sides. As the rules change – and they most certainly will radically again – will teams who fall foul in future suffer the same extreme punishments?

“I doubt it,