Simon Jordan has been vocal in his condemnation of Everton and their conduct across the last decade or so.
Openly admonishing Farhad Moshiri with regularity, and rightly so, the Iranian billionaire has single-handedly plunged the Toffees into a financial peril from which they are unlikely to emerge anytime soon.
Dooming Sean Dyche to an impossible managerial job too, it is thanks to the 52-year-old that his club is not currently wallowing in the Championship.
But with the Premier League now seeking to alter their rules which resulted in this season’s points deduction, frustration has boiled over. Jordan, however, backs the decision.
What Simon Jordan said about Everton
Speaking live on talkSPORT (12/03, 11 am), the former Crystal Palace chairman pulled no punches when chatting to a disgruntled Everton fan.
The supporter, who sought to put across a passionate point regarding the farcical conduct of the Premier League, riled up Jordan with his accusations surrounding the way in which the media have framed the Toffees struggles.
He even argued with Jim White, who initially claimed: ‘‘The current rules have hit Everton hard.’ Jordan replied with speed: ‘So they should,’ sparking his co-host to continue: ‘They’ve hit Forest hard, and may hit Manchester City hard. So, soon-to-be abolished rules are still hanging over the heads of Everton, Forest and City. Is that right? Soon to be abolished rules.’
He then allowed Jordan to continue his tirade: ‘Soon to be amended, and sophisticated. When they were originally introduced there was not the same implications of £105m it was something different. Rules and laws evolve and you get judged by the rules of the time. With that in mind, it’s kind of irrelevant – and don’t forget that Everton’s transgressions go back three years, they don’t go back three months.
‘So we’re not talking about something that happened a week ago.’
White would hit back though, questioning why they are then changing the rules. Jordan continued: ‘Because, like everything else, when you gather more intelligence and the industry wants to evolve forwards and start to look at the consequences and the challenges… like VAR.’
It does make the Premier League look foolish
Although Jordan might be incensed with Everton’s conduct, and desperately seeking to justify why the Premier League are changing their rules, few can argue with how it makes the organisation look.
After all, they have only added to the growing feeling that suggests their position at the moment is one of immense weakness.
Everyone knows that the only reason why they were so harsh on the Toffees, and later Nottingham Forest, was in a desperate last-gasp attempt to project strength in the face of an independent regulator.
However, in doing so with limited success and amidst huge backlash from Evertonians, they have hardly achieved what they set out to do.
Now struggling once again to maintain their image as they are actively changing the rules with which they have stuck by so staunchly, they are effectively admitting that all they have done this season has been without justification.
If even they feel these rules are unfit for purpose, how can they be justifiably used to punish Everton?
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