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The Independent UK
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Harry Latham-Coyle

UNCOVERED: Southampton respond after expulsion from championship play offs for spying | History Defined

Southampton EFL Phil Parsons the Premier League Football Middlesbrough
Southampton have appealed against the stiffness of their sanction after admitting spying on opposition clubs - (Getty)

Southampton have claimed that their punishment for spying on opposition clubs is the “largest penalty ever imposed on an English football club” after appealing against their expulsion from the play-offs and points decduction.

The English Football League (EFL) has kicked Southampton out of Saturday’s final with Hull City following an investigation into allegations made by Middlesbrough ahead of the pair’s play-off semi-final. Boro are now instead due to play Hull for a place in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon at Wembley.

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