EFL chairman Rick Parry has responded to Hull owner Acun Ilıcalı’s threat to take legal action should his club not make it to the promised land this afternoon. Asked by Talksport if he believed today’s result will stand regardless, he said:
double quotation markI hope so, yes of course. We have to move on. The season has to finish. Players are going off to the World Cup on Monday.
We all need clarity now and we all need certainty and what we have a habit of doing in football, all the precedents say that however frustrating it can be at times, you tend to look at punishments prospectively.
If you had to unravel the whole of the previous season’s league table, you would never get a competition finished, so that is always a guiding principle: punishments happen forwards, not backwards.