As much as it pains me to defend Man City I can’t agree with that, it was blocking a clearance from his own keeper, if anything a handball in that situation is more likely to create a chance for the opposition than to block it which it may well have done if Sterling hadn’t stopped to appeal for the hand ball and had instead put pressure on Gvardiol who had the ball in a much more dangerous position than he would have been if the ball hadn’t been obstructed.
The difference here is that Everton has posted their losses so it is easy for the prem to look at it and say that it is over the 105m limit over 3 years and there isn’t really any debate about that. With City and Chelsea they have to prove that the money recorded in their income came from disallowed sources and that is a much harder case which involves a lot of lawyers and time. So it’s not really a case of Everton being poor so much as Everton has admitted to breaking the rule while City is denying it and I’d assume Chelsea is as well but I haven’t really read much about their situation yet.