Quote Originally Posted by MarkSimmons View Post
Brin I complety agree. My point was that whatever the efl do it will be halved on appeal making them toothless. They tend to get a lot of stick whereas in my opinion the arbitration process, which never fails if you lawyers are expensive enough , is the bigger villain. The efl should be allowed to govern their competitions and sadly they are not. I take your point about the maximum starting penalty being too low, but it makes little difference if a third party appeal body always undermines everything they do.
Could the problem be that the EFL board is made up of club owners and directors with others which are ex Premiership board members?

Maybe tone way forward is to have a franchaise system owned/given to the clubs supporters.