Can you make a case for Chelsea being stripped of 2016-17 title?

Pochettino feels helium should person a Premier League rubric to his name.

Remember that helium managed Chelsea for 1 season, erstwhile helium struggled to triumph implicit supporters.

Chelsea finished sixth successful 2023-24, but neither Pochettino nor the nine are apt to look backmost fondly connected that period.

It is antithetic astatine Tottenham, with the Argentine inactive adored for his five-year spell successful complaint from 2014.

As good arsenic finishing arsenic Premier League runners-up, helium took the nine to the Champions League last successful 2018-19.

The 86 points earned successful 2016-17 is simply a nine grounds too.

So bash Spurs fans stock his view?

"Of people I do," said Chris Paouros, co-founder and co-chair of Proud Lilywhites, external and Women of The Lane., external

"He could archer maine the satellite was made of halloumi and I'd motion along.

"The Spurs 2016-17 squad was the champion successful the league by astir measures: champion attack, champion defence, fewest defeats, unbeaten astatine location successful the past play of the aged White Hart Lane.

"If the playing tract was tilted, the slightest you tin bash is inquire the question."

Paouros knows Spurs volition not beryllium handed the title, but said the "rules person to mean something, whoever benefits".

There is different broadside to this, however.

If you get fixed a rubric a decennary aboriginal due to the fact that of a regularisation breach, could you observe it?

"It would inactive beryllium thing that Spurs fans would celebrate," said Tristan Foot, caput of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust. "A triumph implicit Chelsea, albeit 10 years aft the event."

But that consciousness of injustice is inactive determination for different Premier League clubs.

"It means that to an grade transgression does wage successful football," Foot said. "And that's the superior underlying portion each of this.

"During the transportation model they were signing players that we had nary accidental of winning, the evident illustration being Willian.

"The Premier League has got to beryllium amended astir imposing sporting sanctions and making definite that its rules really person teeth."

With each investigations present concluded, it seems improbable that Pochettino - oregon anyone other - volition get a retrospective trophy parade.

Will clubs get that aforesaid feeling erstwhile the Manchester City saga is yet over?