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Middlesbrough won by five goals to one at Bolton Wanderers on Friday night and finished the round top of the Championship, and Queens Park Rangers beat Swansea City 5-0 on Saturday. All twelve games listed for…

Burnley won a league game at last, Southampton beat Portsmouth with ten men, and a twenty-one-year-old goalkeeper on loan from Manchester City stopped West Ham going top of the Championship. The league came…

Five of the fourteen games finished 2-2, and Millwall were 2-0 up in two of them. That is the round in one line: a division where almost nobody could hold on to anything, and where Swansea City went back to…

Thirty-seven goals, six different scorers in one game on the Friday night, and three clubs finishing the weekend on the same number of points.

The Championship's third round was played across Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August: twelve games, all reviewed here, from Lincoln City's first win in the second tier since April 1961 to the only perfect record…

Matchweek two of the Championship ran across Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August. All twelve games are reviewed here, along with a table that already contains one club sitting in the relegation places with a…

This round-up was first published on 16 August, when nine of the opening round's twelve games had been played. It was updated on 18 August with the three that remained: Watford 2-1 Southampton, Burnley 2-2…

Southampton thought Spygate had been settled with a play-off ban and a points deduction. Now the FA has charged head coach Tonda Eckert personally, and this piece explains what he's accused of, what's already…

Southampton's Spygate fallout has reached its most critical juncture yet, with owner Dragan Solak going on record to defend the man at the centre of the storm. This piece examines what his public backing of…

The League Arbitration Panel's written reasons have laid bare the human cost of Southampton's surveillance operation: junior staff placed under pressure, told they had no real choice, and left to carry the…

William Salt is the Southampton performance analyst named in the Middlesbrough training spy scandal. Here is what is known about him and what comes next.

A timeline of Southampton's spygate scandal: the three admitted incidents, the EFL hearing, and the ruling that cost the club its Championship play-off final.

With four days to go until the Championship play-off final at Wembley, Southampton's place in it is anything but guaranteed. An EFL disciplinary commission convened on Tuesday morning to rule on allegations…

This piece examines the most significant disciplinary ruling in English football's second tier in recent memory, looking beyond the bare facts of the verdict to assess what the conduct actually involved, why…

The 2026 Championship play-off final is caught in a genuine institutional crisis, not mere pre-match intrigue. This piece examines what the EFL's own language tells us about the likelihood of 23 May going…

This piece goes beyond the charge sheet to examine what the EFL's disciplinary commission can actually do, how the Southampton case compares to past spying scandals in football, and why the timing of this…

Manchester City's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley looked to be heading towards one of the upsets of the season when Championship side Southampton took the lead with eleven minutes remaining. This report breaks…