Originally Posted by
Brin
But the EFL suggested/requested for an independent panel to deal with it, so in essence they still sent it for just punishment. Purely just an arse covering exercise for the EFL so, they couldn't be accused of personally handing down whatever judgement was handed out, bunch of cowards the lot of em. As it turned out it was a fix as 6 points were later removed, which again wasn't just.
You're either fully guilty or not. All evidence in mitigation should have been heard at the time of the hearing but somehow, Weds managed to find new mitigating circumstances after the charge of -12 points was handed down.. As it was, they removed the 6 points when they should have removed them all. I have never heard of a 50/50 sentence in football.
Take a court sentence. A person is found guilty of said charge and sent down. Appeal is heard and after deliberation the defendant is found NOT guilty therefore all criminal charges are removed and expunged, as the incident never happened. Not in football though.