Let's get it right. It would have relegated them if they hadn't deliberately cheated by playing inelligible players..one for 26 matches, and one for 5.Well it was revenge, they cost us a Champions League spot and celebrated, even though they were playing our team severely handicapped, and we go on to break their hearts in the 95th minute of the next match at their shithole which we thought at the time would relegate them (which it would have if not for Tevez).
Then, rather doing what should be done when a club fields an inelligible player (this should be written in the actual rules on the subject), and removing any points gained in which said players made an appearance(recording them as a 2-0 loss or whatever) they bottled it and fined them. IMO because the Premier league thought that at that time, the Icelandic biscuit billionaires that owned spam were more glamorous to have around the PL than whatever homely northern business man owned Sheffield United
Just to say, I do believe that. Clubs employ people to change players light bulbs. There are no excuses to play an illegible player, and the punishment should be written into the laws.