 Welcome to Toffey TV, this is the Everton News Daily. Richard Masters today, the Premier League CEO, spoke at a sports committee following up on the Premier League or calls for an independent regulator to govern the Premier League. While he was there, he was asked about the points of deduction that Everton have received on facing further charges and notting him for us. He was less than complimentary. It seemed about the sizing of both Everton and notting him for us. This is what he had to say. We have talked a lot about the cliff edge between the Premier League and the rest of football. There does appear to be a cliff edge inside the Premier League where if you are a really big club and therefore you cannot only afford the best players but the best lawyers, then you get embroiled in legal matters that take ten years or never come to fruition. Whereas if you're Everton or Forrest, there's an expedited procedure to use your phrase where suddenly in the middle of the season they get knocked ten points off and get threatened with a relegation where on the pitch they wouldn't deserve that. Do you understand the cynicism that develops around that? I do understand the issue and I try to separate the two in the sense that I've said that those standard corrections for everybody are not just the small clubs. So if anybody was found to be in breach and put forward their PSR calculation that was above the threshold, then we'd be doing exactly the same thing on exactly the same timeframe. It's a very separate process for the other cases because they are fundamentally different in nature. Unfortunately I can't go into all of that today. Football without fans is nothing. A line that is trotted out but with no real conviction behind it. We all can see what is going on. We can see that they allowed Manchester City to decide when they face their charges which is fine and well played Manchester City for not have them whatever the Premier League say. But they certainly seem to be going after evidence and I'm sorry but he has let the whole Premier League down to the AveryTube Masters with those comments. It's such a derogatory thing to say about two members of the Premier League. How dare you call some clubs small within that. It's an absolute disgrace and if you're the Premier League board you will be looking to replace him as soon as possible because he is damaging the brand unbelievably so. He also had a say on evidence takeover. Triple seven been waiting to hear for a while. It's I think we're at week 18 now of the process. They were apparently told to take at least 12 weeks but that was what they were given. It be done in December. It hasn't been. They were also then told that it'll probably have an answer before the 12th of January. That was last week. There's still no answer. So when he was pushed today on where they are up to with making that decision regarding triple seven's takeover of Evan. This is what he had to say. When will Everton find out if the takeover by 777 partners is going to be confirmed by the Premier League? As soon as we have completed the process and unfortunately some process has taken a matter of weeks. If we haven't had satisfactory answers to the questions that we have asked it takes a lot longer. So how long is this one going to take? He's already been running for a number of weeks. There you go. To be honest just from me if you were looking at it from the outside. If they're not giving you satisfactory answers then they don't pass the test surely. So therefore if you're not going to pass them then fail them quickly. Or put it on their toes that we haven't had this. We're not happy with the answer you've given. We're giving you seven days to come up with the answer for this, this and this. It's in nobody's interest for this thing to drag on. This is where I am really struggling with the Premier League. They can go on about they're all shareholders and they're all equally important to us and they can come up with slimy answers and all of that. But the reality is you are there to help the members. You're there to get to the right thing for each club. There's as much as you can without favouring it but helping it. And all that we're seeing is we're seeing them put everything through the mill valley with point deductions, referrals, dragging the heels over triple seven. It should be in everyone's interest to conclude this very quickly as quickly as possible. So put it back on to triple seven, give them time scales but get it done quickly. Like I said, if they're not going to pass it, fail them by all means but do it quickly. If they are going to pass it and you've got no reason why you haven't agreed to their takeover then do that quickly. Because you're just taking the piss now. You really are. Moving on. Sean Dyche has given us pretty much press conference today ahead of the Crystal Palace game. Obviously before he got on to the Crystal Palace game he was asked his opinion on the latest decision to charge Evan and Forrest. I guess I'll refare Evan and Nottingham Forrest. This is what the manager had to say on that. I knew before the news breaking, not too far before. They filled me in when I need to know basis. I think it's a bigger picture view if you like. I've been here approaching a year. My timeline and certainly by the recent stats and facts, I think it's a bottom three or four net spend over the last three or four seasons. So there's a start point of the club motioning to do things correctly. Since I've been here, as you know, we let players go out of contract to something we would have kept but we couldn't do that. We've been working hard to lower everything here. When we sold three young players in the timelines we were given to make sure the money was in, we wouldn't have normally sold them young players, quite obviously. New stadium speaks for itself, the effect that I love on the city as much as anything, the Evertonians. The old setting being developed for good causes, which you certainly know of. Alongside that, trying to still put a team out there that can be competitive of course and all the things that go with that are still trying to work within the signing players who we don't even do deals until they're a year's time and trying to find ways to still be competitive as we could do. And then you sort of end up with an on-pitch sanction and you're like, well we're trying to do everything we can to solve all these conundrums. There's a mistakes we've made, I'm sure, down the years that has been, but that's natural part of football, particularly with player training. It's not an exact science, it's very difficult in fact. And you come away with it and we get the initial spell, which is still the focus, the appeal side of things. And you lose 10 points and you think, well, it's an on-pitch sanction, but we've actually been cutting the idea of being on-pitch powerful by resources, by trying to do the right things. So it's been a tough one in my timeline of a year to take. We still haven't found out about the appeal yet, we're still waiting on that and news on that. But I think that's a broad view of there's a lot going on at this football club. They've tried to do right and then within amongst that, or shortly before I got here, or relatively shortly at a wall, you know, and you've got sanctions on ownership and all that. So it is a strange situation to get an on-pitch sanction of 10 points, which we're still waiting on the appeal, quite obviously. Who knows what comes next? So we've got to watch this space. So really, I suppose that encapsulates a sort of a year's view of what's been going on and trying to give you a feel of it. And I must make it clear, that's my common sense feel view as a football person. I haven't got the minutiae of the rules and the regulations, that's for the powers that be and the lawyers and all stuff like that. But sometimes you put all that at the moment point, you go, there's no on-pitch advantage there. You know, we get an on-pitch sanction. So that is a tough one, without a shadow of a doubt. Now, we hope there's better news comes out of the appeal. Then the next bit comes along and that's kind of something that's encapsulated in all of that. Who knows what comes next? I think we're all wondering, we're all scratching your heads and we're all, well certainly we're hopeful that a change in what's going on occurs. And we get some points back and it's probably looked at a bit differently. Time you've really heard from him, that he's always been very guarded maybe or just played it with a straight bat, sat it down, parked it as he says over there and got on with the job. But he went into a lot more detail there, didn't he, and talked about obviously players having to leave and who they ever might have wanted to keep. And basically saying that we've complied as much as we could, stayed within it and they still charged us not once but twice, clearly showing that he feels it's unjust he said that didn't he as a football person. So, I mean, I don't know, Richard Masters today, he hasn't covered himself in any glory. And I guess the real start today was Julie Clark, he was sat behind him as the secretary of the fan advisory but sat behind him pulling faces by his answers with an evident regalior on. So we're well played to hear there for embarrassing Mr Masters. Sean Dyche moved on to football stuff and confirmed that Abdelhaid Dacore and Sheamus Coleman are both doubtful for tomorrow's FA Cup third round replay against Crystal Palace. Sheamus has got a tight hamstring so I'm absolutely convinced that he won't be part of the game with that. And said Dacore's more fatigue, he's coming back from hamstringing Julie, so is that fatigue a little bit of tightness in his hamstring or is it one of them where they're just going to have to wait and see. We'll have to see what happens with him, he may well end up on the bench Dacore, I don't expect to see Sheamus Coleman though. He did say that Ashley Young is back training but this game is too soon for him, he's more than likely going to be available for Evan's trip. Well if Evan get through the FA Cup fourth round match against Bolton or Luton, if we don't get through then he'll be back I'm sure for the trip to Fulham as well. And the reason for Dominic Calvert-Lewins' red card that was rescinded has come out today and it was rescinded because the panel who looked at it were unanimous in saying that referee Chris Cavana made a clear and obvious error. And this will come back and reflect badly on Chris Cavana for not having the balls to stick with his unpitched decision. He had a clear view of it, seeing that there was nothing in it. It was called to the screen by Craig Paulson which to me is a waste mistake and Paulson should be hammered for it. But then he allowed Craig Paulson to convince him that it was a red card and therefore I suppose that Cavana is going to pay the price for it for not having courage in his conviction and going with what he said. He should have said to Craig Paulson, why are you calling me to the screen? I've seen it live, there's nothing in it. On we go, football is a contact sport. But that is the reason why Dominic Calvert-Lewins' red card was rescinded. The crazy thing in all this of course is apparently it stays on its record. So if Dom is to receive another red card this season, he will get a four match ban as opposed to three, which again is one of the crazy and stupid rules that are in our game unfortunately. Right, that is it for the news day. Give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and put in the comments below what you think about Richard Masters. See you later.