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It's not inconceivable that one act of cheating could "earn" a club 10's of thousands of pounds from an additional league place and qualification for Europe. Factor in things like potential increase in crowds from Euro qualification, additional merchandise sales etc and the financial gains could easily be a healthy 6 figures, maybe even 7 figures if you can get a wee run going. On that basis the current system of punishment is out dated as it is "soft" (in comparison to the potential gains) and no longer fit for purpose as it does nothing to compensate the team which has lost out as a result of the cheating....redress is pretty much non existent. This is something that has been recognised in cup tournaments where cheating can now result in a game being replayed...or a team being removed from the tournament and the other team advance in their place. There's no reason a similar approach/attitude should not be applied to league tournaments. What's more, does it not seem bizarre that the league will happily strip points from a team for off field irregularities, but not for cheating on it!?

He should be strung from the cross bar and the ICT players each get three shots to smash a ball in to his goolies.

Besides. No team can be expected to go through a whole season unbeaten! You should learn from defeats and mistakes.