This week, Leicester City agreed to pay the Football League £3.1m to settle a Financial Fair Play dispute, but Arsenal fans think the punishment wasn’t enough.

In 2013/14, the year Leicester gained promotion to the Premier League, they exceeded their permitted £8m loss by £12.8m.

The EFL statement on the matter said they don’t believe the club made a deliberate attempt to infringe the rules. As a result, instead of a transfer ban, the Football League only gave them a fine.

Arsenal fans clearly aren’t feeling quite so lenient though. Leicester famously won the league just a couple of seasons after their successful promotion, and Arsene Wenger’s side finished runners-up.

Some supporters cheekily suggested that perhaps the title should be handed down, considering the financial illegitimacy of the promotion:

https://twitter.com/wood10_/status/966364032331603968

Unfortunately, even if the EFL were planning to strip Leicester’s title away from them, that doesn’t necessarily mean Arsenal would pick it up instead.

In the Serie A, Juventus led a match fixing scandal back in 2004/05. They won the league that year, but were later stripped of their title. Rather than awarding the championship to the second-placed team, no one picked up the trophy.

Similarly in Ligue 1, Marseille’s 1992/93 title was stripped for the same reason, but Paris Saint-Germain didn’t pick it up instead, despite finishing second.

Although the Premier League has never had a similar situation, I think it’s safe to assume they’d deal with it in the same way.

I’m afraid it might be time to give up that dream of the 2015/16 league title at this point, even if it is our only chance of a trophy this season.