According to the Liverpool Echo, an appeal hearing will begin this month in which Everton hope to reduce the 10-point deduction.Everton received a record points ban in November after being found guilty of breaching the competition’s financial rules.The Toffees, who faced a second reduction in a separate incident, announced shortly afterwards that they would make a formal complaint.In an article in the online edition of the Liverpool Echo [21 January] Joe Thomas said a hearing date had been set.”Everton hopes to make progress on the reduction during the hearing of the appeal, which is expected to start this month,” he wrote.Everton have quite a busy time ahead of them over the next four months, both on and off the pitch.In addition to this complaint about the difficulty of deducting 10 points, they are also filing a second complaint after being charged with additional financial crimes this week.The situation is quite a farce, because the financial report of each club for the last year had to be presented earlier than ever before.This was to allow the relegations to begin this season, but the appeal process is not expected to be completed until a week after the end of the campaign.At the very least, Everton should know if that 10-point deduction – or any of it – is still in place for the next two weeks.Attention then turns to the second payment, although it is not yet known whether it will be Everton’s points penalty, cash or both.All the time, matches are frequent and fast until the end of the season.The players can just make sure we have as many points on the board as possible so the extra penalties don’t matter as much..