Whelan told The Times, "The Premier League have now established that no one can ever be docked points unless a club goes into receivership and then it's an automatic ten-point deduction.
"The rules are the rules and if this breach doesn't merit the docking of points, then let's make it clear - nothing does.
"That's fine by me. Let everyone be treated the same, I say. A precedent has been set."
After the game, a bitter Paul Jewell told The Sun, If West Ham had been marooned like Watford are they would have been deducted points, as the Premier League could have done it without causing a fuss.
"They bottled it and they know they did. We know the Premier League were desperate for us to beat West Ham to right the injustice - because an insider told one of our men that.
"I'm convinced they decided not to take points off West Ham because if they had, they might have had to look at one or two other