Sorry. Five letters. It’s not complicated. To mean it is another matter. Southampton have failed emphatically to read the room – the owner, the coach, the senior staff. Everybody, it seems, bar the kid caught doing the deed.
According to the English Football League investigation into Southampton’s spying operations against Middlesbrough, Ipswich Town and Oxford United, the analyst intern caught in the act is the only one who felt remotely uncomfortable about the practice.
Owner Dragan Solak, the dude ultimately responsible for all club matters, berated the kid for not protesting enough yet is determined to keep the bloke who sent him to the front line, head coach Tonda Eckert, in his post.
Across the piece the messaging is dire. Eckert’s mea culpa to camera begging for understanding and forgiveness was as authentic as an episode of The Real Housewives of Cheshire.
Southampton’s reputation has been seriously damaged by ‘Spygate’ (Photo: Getty)
