SOUTHAMPTON say the decision to expel them from the Championship play-offs over the “Spygate” scandal is “manifestly disproportionate” to any other sanction handed down in the history of the English game.

An independent commission imposed the penalty — and docked four points for next season — after the club admitted three spying charges, including one related to observing a training session of play-off semi-final opponents Middlesbrough earlier this month.

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