Southampton have failed in their appeal to overturn the club’s expulsion from the Championship play-off final for their part in the Spygate scandal.
Middlesbrough, whose training session Saints admitted to spying on before the play-off semi-final, will now face Hull City at Wembley on Saturday.
After the appeal was heard by an independent arbitration panel last night, the EFL said in a statement: ‘A League arbitration panel has tonight dismissed Southampton Football Club’s appeal against the independent disciplinary commission’s sanction following the admittance of multiple breaches of EFL Regulations. The determination means that the original sanction of expulsion from the Sky Bet
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