Southampton Football Club faces a four-point deduction and play-off expulsion after a spying scandal involving secret messages and a deleted LinkedIn profile. New details reveal how a junior intern was pressured to gather intelligence on three Championship rivals.
Dragan Solak promises to stand by head coach Tonda Eckert despite the spying controversy that cost Southampton their place in the Championship play-offs.
Southampton have appealed their expulsion from the Championship play-offs, arguing the punishment for spying is far too severe compared to previous cases in English football.
Hull City’s dramatic playoff victory over Millwall places Kenyan-linked talents Eliot Matazo and Sammy Henia-Kamau on the brink of English Premier League promotion ahead of the Wembley final.
Australian-Croatian forward Adrian Segecic struck three times to give Portsmouth a historic 3-1 victory at Stoke City and complete his first professional hat-trick.
Sunderland head coach Régis Le Bris admits his team were hurt by a sluggish opening as they crashed 5-0 at home to relegation-battling Nottingham Forest.
A stoppage-time strike from Macaulay Langstaff rescued a 1-1 draw for Millwall at already-relegated Leicester and lifted the London club back into the Championship’s automatic promotion places.
Macauley Langstaff’s last-gasp strike rescued a point for Millwall at relegated Leicester, leaving the Lions second but still at risk of slipping into the play-offs.