Southampton‘s attempts to gain an advantage by spying on opponents not only spectacularly backfired in their battle to gain promotion – but the Saints didn’t even win any of the games they admitted to cheating on.
Last night, in a sensational development in the Spygate scandal, an independent disciplinary commission expelled Tonda Eckert’s side from Saturday’s £200million Championship play-off final, where they were set to face Hull City.
The club have also been deducted four points ahead of next season. An appeal will be heard by an independent arbitration panel on Wednesday.
Middlesbrough, who raised a complaint when their training was spied on 48
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