On Monday, Nottingham Forest lodged an appeal against the four-point deduction imposed upon them for a breach of Premier League financial rules.
Earlier in March, they had four-point deducted from their total for breaching the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules.
“Nottingham Forest can confirm that it has today lodged an appeal against the four point sanction imposed by the Commission in relation to the Club’s breach of the Premier League’s Profit & Sustainability Rules,” the club said in a brief statement on its website.
“The club will not be making any further statement at this time.”
Reacting to their points deduction at the time, the club said, “We believe that the high levels of cooperation the club has shown during this process, and which are confirmed and recorded in the commission’s decision, were not reciprocated by the Premier League.”
However, the commission which imposed the sanction on the club said, “The four points sanction is not to punish Forest so much as it is to be fair to the other clubs; to give the public confidence that when a club invests as Forest did to compete in the Premier League, it still needs to comply with the PSR threshold for losses.”
