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Originally Posted by Chewbacca
Not at all, before Leicester went into administration 26 other clubs did. none were deducted points as there was no rule.
The rule only came in at the end of 2004 and all clubs going into administration have been deducted points, even when they tried to fiddle it by saying it is a holding company and not the club.
Bradford been in admin 3 times before the rules from the 1980s onwards and not punished.
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I believe it was slightly earlier than that as unless i.m wrong Carlisle were the first club to suffer the consequences of the new rules.
But Leicester is a pretty unique and extreme case where due to the timing they effectively put the whole cost of building their new stadium into the administration meaning they paid only about a tenth of what it actually cost.
Then about 5 years later evidence backing this up came to light and the former directors one of the construction companies that went bust due to what happened threatened to sue them and they agreed to settle out of court