Saints and Sinners: What we know about Spygate

The English Football League charged Saints with watching training sessions [Other] Southampton Football Club lost its appeal against being kicked out of the play-off final for spying on three clubs in the Championship season. The English Football League (EFL) charged Saints with watching training sessions involving Oxford United and Ipswich Town, in addition to filming Middlesbrough as they prepared for the first leg of their play-off semi-final. The club lodged an appeal but on Wednesday evening an independent league arbitration panel rejected it .

The club described it as an "extremely disappointing outcome" but said it was "clear that trust now needs to be rebuilt". So what now for the Saints? Southampton will now miss out on a game dubbed the richest in world football, with the winners of the play-off final guaranteed a minimum £110m in Premier League broadcast revenue.

Southampton admitted to "multiple breaches of EFL regulations [PA Media] What rules did Southampton break? The EFL charged Saints with breaking two regulations. EFL Regulation 3.

4, which requires clubs to act towards each other with the utmost good faith; and EFL Regulation 127, which prohibits any club from observing, or attempting to observe, another club's training session within 72 hours of a scheduled match between the two clubs Southampton admitted to "multiple breaches of EFL regulations related to the unauthorised filming of other clubs' training", the EFL said. Club statement On Wednesday afternoon, Phil Parsons, chief executive at Southampton FC said in a statement: "What happened was wrong. The club has admitted breaches of EFL Regulations 3.