West Ham should get points deducted

Prem League want the big name clubs in the prem, which West Ham are.

Who would you rather watch? Wigan or West Ham?

 

West Ham got off lightly with the fine. The other clubs have every right to be annoyed with the descision.

 

Wigan \o/

 

Exactly.. The decision not to deduct points makes the league looks rather Italianish..

 

I'm sure that the vast majority of fans would prefer to watch the team that has not cheated and lied about it to stay in the division.

 

That is so cynical but so true. But is a big club mired in the relegation battle really more of a draw than a cinderella story like Reading?

 

Great, we lost three vital points due to two goals scored by an illegal player. And we say the Italians are corrupt...

 

West Ham.

 

Doesn't matter, as it looks like a load of Premiership clubs are happy to bankrupt them. Hehehe.

 

No they should not be deducted points, The league should have done something before it got to this point. It is unfair to the entire team and and it's fans. Let the play on the field decide who stays , not some boardroom ruling. The league should have stepped in straight away and denied that move, after the fact it's ridiculous.

 

The field of play is where West Ham have been able to field a player who should not have been playing. Every time they have played Tevez and Mascherano they have been knowingly breaking Premier League rules and certainly over the last couple of months they have gained a significant advantage from this. Without Tevez they would have been down some weeks ago.

 

Every match involving Tevez or Mascherano should be awarded as a win to the opposing team, and -3 points to West Ham.

 

I sense.....bitterness?

 

Why shouldn't I we be bitter? They signed a player illegally to stop themselves being relegated. Any other team would have been deducated points, but they're the media darlings so they get away with it.

 

I understand your bitterness about them getting Tevez, but your statement about him being brought in to prevent relegation is terribly misguided. He was brough in when they were atop the league - with 0 points.

 

Well actually he was brought in when they had 4 points from their first 3 games. [/anorak]

 

To be honest ... as wrong and as scandalous it is that West Ham are going to stay in the premiership next year, I think the institution to blame for this fiasco here is the FA. How they have let this continue until the end of the season is just atrocious. The FA should be deducted points for letting the two players get signed in the first place. They gave the green light for West Ham to sign the players in the first place and they continued to look away throughout the entire season.

 

Actually, I think that West Ham were bottom of the league at the beginning of the season - Arsenal were at the top.

FYI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_order

 

If they were illegal, then the league should not have allowed them to play in the first place. Don't allow them to play, then at a later date say, well they shouldn't have played.

 

The whole problem is that West Ham deliberately withheld the information that showed them to be illegal from the Premier League and when asked if they had any further information on their ownership denied having any.

The inquiry said that points would have been deducted had the case been heard in January but decided not to as it was so close to the end of the season (which is hardly a valid reason - let's not ban Michael Ball for stamping on Ronaldo as we're near the end of the season). The offences clearly justified a points deduction, but for a variety of reasons (none of which stand up to any scrutiny) the Premier League decided not to deduct points.

 

I thought West Ham lied to the FA. If so, it's hard to blame the FA for believing West Ham.

EDIT: lanman confirmed this.

Looks different now, doesn't it kids?