Manchester United enjoyed a comfortable 3-0 win over Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday evening.
The hosts’ woes continued after having ten points deducted due to breaching the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules.
Everton’s struggles went from bad to worse when Alejandro Garnacho opened the scoring just three minutes in with a stunning overhead kick that set the Red Devils’ evening alight.
Having struggled to find their form in the Premier League, Erik Ten Hag’s side seem to have found their feet with a glorious victory over a struggling Toffees side.
The victory sees Man United fly into the top six, just two points behind Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham.
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Andy Burnham has accused the Premier League of an ‘abuse of process’ and the decision to deduct 10 points from Everton for financial breaches should be ‘null and void’ due to altering the framework used to make the judgment midway through the case.
Everton were charged and referred to an independent commission in March for breaching profit and sustainability rules, but the guidelines for how to punish such a case were only put together on August 10 this year.
‘Has there been a fair process?,’ the Labour politician and mayor of Manchester asked reporters at Goodison Park on Sunday. ‘There has been a highly flawed process and I would go as far to say there has been an abuse of the process. And that abuse of process concerns the guideline and framework that was put together in August and submitted to the independent commission.
‘It could be argued that the Premier League handing a new penalty regime to the Commission in this way is akin to the Government handing new sentencing guidelines to a judge in the middle of a particular trial.’
In a letter sent to the Premier League, seen by Mail Sport, Burnham wrote to chair Alison Brittain: ‘I would say the process should be declared null and void because of the regulatory malpractice of introducing new rules in the middle.’