{"id":78491,"date":"2026-09-10T01:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/chelseas-2016-17-premier-league-title-should-be-given-to-spurs-says-pochettino\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:57:14","slug":"chelseas-2016-17-premier-league-title-should-be-given-to-spurs-says-pochettino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/chelseas-2016-17-premier-league-title-should-be-given-to-spurs-says-pochettino\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea\u2019s 2016-17 Premier League title should be given to Spurs, says Pochettino"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Former manager says Chelsea should be stripped of title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018The title should be for the team that was second\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino says Chelsea should be stripped of their 2016-17 Premier League title for financial rule breaches and the honour retrospectively awarded to Tottenham, who he led to second place that season.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/31\/chelsea-fined-10m-suspended-transfer-ban-fa-agent-breaches\">fined \u00a310m by the Football Association<\/a> in July and given a suspended two-window transfer ban for multiple violations of the rules during the Roman Abramovich era. They were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/16\/chelsea-fined-suspended-transfer-ban-historical-rule-breaking\">fined \u00a310.75m by the Premier League<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/sep\/10\/chelsea-2016-17-premier-league-title-tottenham-mauricio-pochettino\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former manager says Chelsea should be stripped of title \u2018The title should be for the team that was second\u2019 Mauricio Pochettino says Chelsea should be stripped of their 2016-17 Premier League title for financial rule breaches and the honour retrospectively awarded to Tottenham, who he led to second place that season. Chelsea were fined \u00a310m &#8230; <a title=\"Chelsea\u2019s 2016-17 Premier League title should be given to Spurs, says Pochettino\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/chelseas-2016-17-premier-league-title-should-be-given-to-spurs-says-pochettino\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chelsea\u2019s 2016-17 Premier League title should be given to Spurs, says Pochettino\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}