
Southampton’s expulsion from the Championship playoff final and a four-point deduction for next season is a “sanction which bears no proportion to the offence”, the second-tier club’s CEO Phil Parsons said on Wednesday.
Southampton were thrown out of Saturday’s Championship playoff final – the richest game in world soccer – after being found guilty of spying on semi-final opponents Middlesbrough in one of the harshest punishments imposed in the English






