'They have ruined it' - Andy Burnham launches new Premier League attack after Everton and Nottingham Forest points deductions

Andy Burnham says the Premier League have ruined Everton’s penultimate season at Goodison Park and has accused them of “making it up as they go along” after Nottingham Forest were given a smaller penalty than the Blues despite a bigger breach.

Forest’s PSR (Profit and Sustainability Rules) case concluded with a four-point deduction on Monday after they exceeded their allowable losses by £34.5million. Everton were given an initial 10-point deduction in November after being found guilty by an independent commission of exceeding losses by £19.5million. Although they appealed against the decision, which reduced the punishment to six points, it was still two points more than the punishment that the East Midlanders received.

Speaking to Mark Chapman on The Sports Agents podcast, Mayor of Greater Manchester Burnham, a lifelong Evertonian, said: “I feel so frustrated about it. They’ve ruined this season, the second to last season at Goodison Park, they have ruined it.

“The fact that this grand old ground is just shrouded constantly in protest and frustration and anger, it isn’t right to me. But not just to us, look at the whole bottom of the table.

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“Nobody knows where they are, nobody knows what is going on. Nobody knows what the next deduction will be… And you look at the process they’ve got Forest and ourselves in now.

“Have they used the formula that they sent to the original commission that looked at Everton, to the commission looking at Forest? I don’t know the answer to that question…

“Will they use the same formula with Everton? Will Everton and