“Corrupt” “Cheats”: How fuming fans of NINE clubs clubs reacted to Sheffield Wednesday points deduction news

With the whirlwind developments kicking off across the pond this week, it was nice to see a large portion of the social media community over here come together in unison...
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...to express their outrage at the reduction of Sheffield Wednesday points deduction from 12 points to six.

Fans of clubs from up and down the Football League expressed their displeasure at the news, which fleetingly saw the Owls move from the bottom of the table before Wycombe’s impressive away win at Birmingham.

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Wednesday now sit on five points, a point back on struggling Derby County and three from safety in what was a monumental boost for the club after this week’s win over Bournemouth.

Rival supporters from clubs including Sheffield United, Leeds United and Rotherham United joined in the Twitter meltdown last night, as did fans of struggling Nottingham Forest and *checks notes*.. Peterborough United?

A smattering of reaction is below..

Nottingham Forest fan @chriscomben: Its good to see Sheffield Wednesday blatantly cheating has resulted in half the points deduction removed. For cheating. Blatantly.

Leeds fan @sazzybm: So is nobody going to mention the fact that Sheffield Wednesday had their points deduction halved?!?! #efl #corrupt

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Peterborough United fan @fozzy_chris: Sheffield Wednesday's points deduction being halved is just a whole additional level of utter fuckw*ttery from the EFL. And their fans would have everyone believe there is an agenda AGAINST them?

QPR fan @QPRW12BZ: Sheffield Wednesday point deduction halved, so if they stay up by any less than 7 points the EFL will be facing legal action from the 22nd placed team. The EFL are an absolute shambles!

Charlton Athletic fan @Cabbles14: Bringing Sheffield Wednesday’s points deduction from 12 to 6 seems to suggest a high level of corruption at the @EFL. Someone(s) has taken a bribe. Can’t think of anything else to explain it

Birmingham City fan @9_Hendo: Nice of the EFL to bend over backwards for Sheffield Wednesday but continue to seek punishment against Birmingham and not once even flinching on our 9 point deduction…

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Sheffield United fan @sufc03511924: Love it. Not only have #swfc fans forgiven Gary Monk with last nights win, they’ve seemingly forgotten that Chansiri has single handedly run the club into the ground. I’ve seen some bad partnerships at #sufc but that takes the biscuit

Derby County fan @Dan_Walls_: Let’s see if #swfc are on the receiving end of abysmal refereeing decisions now they too have made the EFL look stupid. We’ve had absolutely awful referees since our court case.

Rotherham United fan @Tomk_1992: They have deliberately fiddled the books. How can you get that punishment reduced?