{"id":43044,"date":"2026-05-19T22:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-as-middlesbrough-reinstated\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:56:24","slug":"southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-as-middlesbrough-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-as-middlesbrough-reinstated\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton expelled from Championship play-offs over &#8216;spygate&#8217; as Middlesbrough reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton have been expelled from the Championship play-offs over the &#8216;spygate&#8217; scandal. The club, who have a right to appeal the verdict, will also receive a four-point deduction for next season&#8217;s Championship.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/video\/33727\/13546004\/southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-as-middlesbrough-reinstated\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton have been expelled from the Championship play-offs over the &#8216;spygate&#8217; scandal. The club, who have a right to appeal the verdict, will also receive a four-point deduction for next season&#8217;s Championship.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}