Following our Appeal to the Football Association Yesterday Monday March 26, The FA appeal hearing has reduced our Ryman League punishment. We have been deducted only 3 points, and fined £400 as per the original punishment. Hopefully you would have seen the result of the hearing in the Media
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Why do the FA bother handing out punishments if they just change their mind at the first time of asking? Rules are rules, we all have to stick by them if we like it or not.
Baggy Trousers wrote: Why do the FA bother handing out punishments if they just change their mind at the first time of asking? Rules are rules, we all have to stick by them if we like it or not.
The original punishment was meted out by the Ryman League not the FA and one of the rules in the League rule book is the right to appeal to the FA against any punishment thought to be unfair. The FA appointed an independent 3 man panel to review the punishment and, having considered all the facts, reduced the points deduction to 3.
I do hope you are as amenable if the circumstance surrounds another club and an appeal on their behalf denies you promotion or relegates you. Or would that be 'unfair'?
