Stefan Borson: Leicester City have real risk of ‘increased penalty’ and this is why

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“They obviously think that they have at least a chance of saying that the original independent commission got the law wrong in respect of one of their arguments that would have knocked the whole case out, i.e. it would have said zero points,” said Borson. “I don’t think that they’ve got much hope at all of arguing the scale of the breach.

Then they’re left with some of the competition arguments, which would all probably knock the whole thing out.” Read More: Why the points deduction verdict was “very good news” for LeicesterHow many more points could Leicester be deducted?Borson insisted Leicester are attempting to overturn their points deduction following their appeal. “I don’t think they’re fighting for one or two points,” said Borson.

“I think this is an attempt to knock the whole thing out again in the way that they did with 2023, so they get zero deduction. But the slight problem here is I think they do have a risk of an increased penalty, which I don’t necessarily think that a lot of the other cases had.