Fine, suspended points deduction. Anything else would be completely disproportionate. As I've pointed out in other posts, you just need to look at some other clubs to see just how much you need to bend the rules before finally getting a deduction. It's ridiculous. You actually have to try, very very hard, before the EFL slap any remotely serious sanctions on you.
Here’s a question: If Chien & Conway were banned from being directors/owners and they refused to sell their shares?
Neither, come on did anyone read the statement, it’s Conway/Lee they are after, the clubs current board were the ones who brought it to the EFLs attention, they didn’t hide it, the EFL were none the wiser otherwise. Ideally Conway/Lee will be barred from owning an English club again, but that’ll be too good to be true, most likely they’ll throw solicitors at it and just get a slap on the hand. They failed to send some forms that’s all they did and presumably if they had sent them they’d have been approved anyway, it’s hardly anything. How the heck someone thinks that’ll end up in a points deduction for a club now owed by others who reported it is beyond me.
That’s what I’d like to know, how much power does the EFL have, if barred can they make them sell shares? or would it just prevent them from buying more? I haven’t a clue but hopefully this is the beginning of the end for them
No. But if we get relegated two divisions and fined a million for the same offence that Birmingham got a slap on the wrist for then we'd have decent grounds for appeal.