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BOLTON – AND THE EFL – CAN ESCAPE A TANGLED WEB

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The LeaguePaper Team
27 August 2017

BOLTON Wanderers fans are understandably wary of a points deduction after Sports Shield, the company that owned 37.5 per cent of the club, was liquidated on Monday.
The EFL board have announced they will ‘review’ the situation, with an announcement expected in September. It will, however, be very difficult for them to justify such a sanction.
In February 2015, the company that owned Birmingham City, BIH, went into voluntary receivership. Under league rules, that counted as an ‘insolvency event’ which, at the board’s discretion, can incur a ten-point deduction.
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