{"id":140780,"date":"2026-05-12T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/southampton-ask-for-more-time-over-spying-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:02:54","slug":"southampton-ask-for-more-time-over-spying-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/southampton-ask-for-more-time-over-spying-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton ask for more time over spying claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Southampton have requested more time to conduct an internal review after they were charged with spying on Championship play-off rivals Middlesbrough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The English Football League has accused Saints of \u201cobserving, or attempting to observe, another club\u2019s training session within 72 hours of a scheduled match\u201d and not acting \u201cwith the utmost good faith\u201d to another club.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesbrough claim that a member of the Southampton coaching staff was found watching and recording a training session at their Rockliffe Park base on Thursday \u2013 two days before the teams drew 0-0 at Riverside Stadium in the first leg of their play-off semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>At no stage have Southampton attempted to deny the allegation.Saints boss Tonda Eckert left Saturday\u2019s post-match news conference early after being asked multiple times, and refusing to answer, if he had sent a performance analyst to a Boro training session.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the south coast club would have 14 days to respond to the charges, but the EFL has asked the independent disciplinary commission for \u201ca hearing at the earliest opportunity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The clubs meet at St Mary\u2019s in the second leg on Tuesday with the winners facing Hull City in the final at Wembley on 23 May.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/southampton-ask-for-more-time-over-spying-claims\/\">Southampton ask for more time over spying claims<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton have requested more time to conduct an internal review after they were charged with spying on Championship play-off rivals Middlesbrough. The English Football League has accused Saints of \u201cobserving, or attempting to observe, another club\u2019s training session within 72 hours of a scheduled match\u201d and not acting \u201cwith the utmost good faith\u201d to another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}