Everton and their fanbase have consistently sought to discredit and disprove the Premier League’s unrelenting barrage of attacks throughout this campaign.
It has been an arduous task, and one which may finally come to an end following the appeal of this, their second PSR breach and subsequent deduction.
There are some supremely intelligent fans out there as well, who have actually picked holes in the division’s argument with ease.
However, one point made in their recent ruling has made a mockery of the entire process.
Independent commission make a mockery of the Premier League
Many fans have latched on to one particular paragraph that has emerged from the independent commission’s findings, which both reveal and then embarrass the Premier League for their weak efforts to attack the Toffees.
It reads as follows: ‘Further, we reject the PL’s submission that Everton should not have placed “all its eggs in one basket”, and that Everton should have been aware that Mr Usmanov had a heightened risk profile.
‘That is a nice point to be made in hindsight, as was the PL’s invocation of the Russian invasion of the Crimea and the Russian poisoning episodes on UK soil.
‘It is, in the Commission’s view, too much to ask that Everton should have taken these matters into account with respect to the prudent management of the sponsorship risk.’
Effectively, how did the Premier League expect Everton to see into the future? Well, their hypocrisy has only been heightened when delving deeper.
The Premier League’s hypocrisy revealed by Everton
With this imperative paragraph now published, amongst many other controversial points, the Premier League have been made to look like the hypocritical tyrants many Evertonians had already branded them.
After all, to completely dismiss Everton’s mitigation regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, whilst they themselves were forced to cut ties with the former too, is laughable.
‘The Premier League and its clubs today unanimously agreed to suspend our agreement with Russian broadcast partner Rambler (Okko Sport) with immediate effect and to donate £1million to support the people of Ukraine,’ read the Premier League’s statement after the initial invasion back in 2022.
It was quite clear that they had not foreseen such an event occurring, obviously, because who possibly could?
They likely lost a huge sum from that endeavour, just as Everton did. Admittedly, the Toffees were far more reliant on the cash that Alisher Usmanov was pumping in than the division was on that particular broadcasting deal.
However, it just shows how even they could not predict the war, and therefore it begs the question as to how they expected Everton to.