Championship and EFL Football

[harr1984]

Playing devil’s advocate, does filming a training session on your phone really matter that much? Especially in the modern era where everything is tracked and every match is available? I get the idea of working on something specific to counter Southampton…but we’re not talking some big operation to spy. It’s a 23 year bloke with a phone.

Storm in a teacup for me, not sure what big advantage they were getting from some guy videoing a training session from far away. However, after the Leeds Vs Derby spygate where Leeds were fined £200,000 a rule was put in place you can't view opposition training 72 hours before a game so they have broken the rules.

I would expect a big fine, throwing them out of the play offs seems a bit much considering the minor at best advantage but who knows. They were stupid to do it considering the risk/reward of it - they know each others game, there wasn't going to be any big surprises on match day....