English Championship

Derby County are set to accept a 9-point penalty for a breaching of English Football League financial regulations, but Alan Nixon has revealed that the EFL ‘had the power’ to pursue a much larger 17-point deduction.

Derby County remain rooted to the foot of the Championship table after suffering a 12-point deduction for entering into administration earlier in the season.

Reports this week have now suggested that the Rams are set to reluctantly accept a further 9-point deduction for their financial misconduct during Mel Morris’ reign, taking their total point deduction for the season to 21 (with a 3-point suspended penalty for a late payment of players last season).

The club’s administrators launched an appeal against their administration points penalty which was later adjourned, and they were also confident of seeing what was always set to be a 9-point deduction for breaching financial regulations reduced.

But it looks set to be a 9-point penalty.

Nixon though writes in The Sun on Sunday this morning that the EFL ‘had the power’ to push for a much larger penalty for Derby County’s financial misconduct – he writes that, should the case have gone to an independent disciplinary commission, then the EFL could’ve pushed for a 17-point deduction rather than a 9-point deduction.