Southampton play-off final ban is a theatrical farce – EFL have opted for annihilation instead of punishment

SOUTHAMPTON called the  ‘spygate’ punishment “manifestly disproportionate”. That is legal language. Football language is simpler. They think they have been absolutely done — and perhaps they have. Because whatever Southampton did — and clearly they did something monumentally stupid — English football has reached the stage where a bloke with a mobile phone hiding near...