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Oh, welcome. Welcome, welcome to the Top 20 podcast, SpyGate Reaction episode.

Southampton have been kicked out of the championship playoffs by an independent commission appointed by the EFL to provide the sanction to allegations of spying

pending an appeal heard today. We are going to get deep into it, George. The details coming

out of the hearing are sensational in every meaning of the word, spying low speed chases around

golf clubs, whistleblowing, and its outcome obviously is hugely

impactful on a number of levels all told this has been one of the most extraordinary stories

in football league history in like football you know on Thursday sorry Tuesday evening one of

the biggest longest weights in recent football history came to an end when we found

out what the Independent Commission decided to do in Spiregate. But I joke, but like, you know,

I tweeted during the Premier League games, how Arsenal are going to win the league in an hour

and the biggest story in football was in the EFL. And the BBC News at 10, after Arsenal won

the Premier League, the first story was SpyGate followed by

Arsenal like this is something and the amount of messages I got last night it was incredibly

annoying that it was during my kids' bath time and bedtime but the amount of messages I got when the

news broke yesterday was you know from people that I you know I didn't really know even

considered football as an interest.

This has really kind of cut through.

And understandably so, it's really interesting.

It's a story about cheating.

It's a story about sporting merit.

Ridiculous details that have come to light in the last, you know, as we expected they would do in kind of the athletic long read and the telegraph done a couple of pieces.

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