Alison McGovern has raised the Everton punishment as she asked for news on plans for an independent regulator in Parliament.

The Labour MP for Wirral South posted a clip via Twitter on 23 November after being contacted by constituents about the 10-point deduction, reiterating her call for a regulator “to manage the game properly”.

McGovern had put to government minister Penny Mordaunt that Toffees supporters were “frustrated” by the situation the club has been through and “worry” about “unfairness” in the process.

She said that “fans of many clubs believe that the structure of men’s football requires much better governance” and claimed “support from parties all across this house” to move ahead with a regulator.

Mordaunt acknowledged the “audible agreement” around the House as the question was asked, and said she was a supporter of the issue, although failed to give a specific answer to when the bill would be published apart from to say McGovern would “not have long to wait”.

It is broadly positive that Everton’s plight is now gaining a lot of mainstream attention, although fans will probably not be delighted for it to have taken a heavy punishment to come down to reach this point.

The Premier League’s process for referring the club to an independent commission who then deducted 10 points has come under major scrutiny.

Rules on what spending would be counted against profit and sustainability appear to have changed on a whim, and the club have been hit by a major sporting punishment despite an apparent agreement that there was no sporting advantage from the spending breach.

And when it is the team and the fans who are set to bear the brunt of it rather than the board, who have already gone, and the owner, who is on his way out, it has left many extremely unhappy.

The independent regulator has been held up as the saviour to all these issues, and while it is easy to argue that football shouldn’t be entrusted to mark its own homework any more it seems fairly likely that an external body will end up being just an unpopular.

Much like the divisive introduction of VAR the regulator will only be as effective as those who are appointed to it, so if one is on the way it will need to be held to account itself, and either way it appears to be coming too late for Everton.