by Elm Park Kid »
01 Mar 2023 19:39
The EFL statement provides zero information other than restating what we already know - that Reading had an obligation to stick to an EFL business plan. They would have released exactly the same statement regardless of whether they had already decided we were guilty/innocent or whether they were genuinely still reviewing the facts.
Football journalism obviously has a poor reputation for printing rumour as fact, and extrapolating a lot based on minimal details. However, there is going to be some kind of source when they report this. They must have an insider providing them with information - someone that they can reasonably trust. As others have said, maybe the EFL are looking to gain a bit of media attention with this leak, maybe they want to prepare Reading fans, maybe it's just one individual who owes a journalist a favour. Maybe the EFL haven't made any final decisions and this person has jumped the gun.
It's obviously not 'nothing' though - there's a now a very strong possibility that we are about to see a points deduction. The crazy thing is that it could be a 12 point and we'd still have a fighting chance of staying up.