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The significance of no such points deduction in this case has led to calls from the other troubled Premiership clubs to sue both West Ham and the league. When you consider that the television money is set to increase significantly from next season, the matter is of critical importance.
Leading the charge is our chairman, Dave Whelan. Never one to take an injustice lying down, Mr Whelan has said: "This is a very serious offence West Ham committed. They broke the law, told blatant lies and should have got a 10-point penalty. If we can sue West Ham or the Premier League, I am sure that will happen.
"Justice would be West Ham being one of the two clubs that still has to go down, but justice has so far not been served in this case. If there was any action taken by the bottom six clubs that are in danger of going down, I'd be a big supporter of that action. I think the bottom six will stick together and take action together whichever two clubs go down, if West Ham aren't one of them.
"If any action is taken I think it'll be in the next 14 days and I'll support any action that the clubs want to take. The chairmen and chief executives have all spoken and two, maybe three clubs are in the process of taking legal advice, Wigan being one of them. Would we sue the league? We don't know whether we could. Would we sue West Ham? Again, we need to find out whether we can.
"The Premier League is in a bit of turmoil because the officials and the clubs all know what happened was not right. I have no anger with West Ham or their supporters. They are a great club and get very well supported. But the Premier League have handled this in a very poor manner and I think it should have been passed on to the Football Association for them to sort it out."
It would seem that should West Ham manage to survive, then there will be a long legal battle throughout the summer involving whichever club is relegated in their place. Hopefully that won't be ourselves and a win on Saturday against Middlesbrough would go a long way to ensuring safety.
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