Sean Dyche has indicated hope that Everton will avoid a second points deduction from their recently concluded independent commission hearing.
The Toffees boss spoke in his pre-match press conference (28 March) ahead of the Bournemouth game to reveal he had been told that the club had provided all the information they could but were still in the dark as to what the outcome might be, although he did indicate that the players “seem non-affected” by the situation.
His view comes in the context of Nottingham Forest getting a smaller deduction (four) than Everton did in, either their original hearing (10) or following their appeal (six), with Dyche admitting “I don’t know the minutiae of ours [case] let alone theirs”, but that he didn’t understand how the two had come out so differently.
Predictions for the outcome have ranged from an inevitable second points sanction to possibly escaping one altogether, with the Toffees reportedly resigned to another blow, but the Goodison Park boss suggested that is not the case.
Dyche said: “I think the last one jolted everybody in football so I think really we’re just waiting now, because I don’t think anybody has concrete proof of which way these things will go, particularly after the first one.
“From our point of view we can only give the information that’s appropriate, I wasn’t there obviously but so I’m told, we’ve given every bit of information that we can give, and hope that they see it accordingly what the club’s been trying to do to make sure we’re in the right areas that they need us to be in.
