Southampton expelled from Championship play-offs for spying on Middlesbrough

It was the morning of Thursday, 7 May. Middlesbrough were at their Rockliffe Park training base preparing for the game against Southampton 48 hours later. The spy, a Southampton analyst, is said to have parked at the golf club, then walked a couple of hundred yards down a road which leads to a raised area of ground. Sources told the BBC that the accused simply stood pointing his mobile at the training session, while wearing in-ear headphones. …