{"id":43046,"date":"2026-05-19T22:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-with-middlesbrough-reinstated\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:56:23","slug":"southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-with-middlesbrough-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-with-middlesbrough-reinstated\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton expelled from Championship play-offs over &#8216;spygate&#8217; with Middlesbrough reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton expelled from Championship play-offs over &#8216;spygate&#8217; with Middlesbrough reinstated Tuesday 19 May 2026 18:47, UK Southampton have been expelled from the Championship play-offs over the &#8216;spygate&#8217; scandal. Middlesbrough have been reinstated and will face Hull City in the play-off final on Saturday May 23. Southampton, who have a right to appeal the verdict, will<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13545415\/southampton-expelled-from-championship-play-offs-over-spygate-with-middlesbrough-reinstated\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton expelled from Championship play-offs over &#8216;spygate&#8217; with Middlesbrough reinstated Tuesday 19 May 2026 18:47, UK Southampton have been expelled from the Championship play-offs over the &#8216;spygate&#8217; scandal. Middlesbrough have been reinstated and will face Hull City in the play-off final on Saturday May 23. Southampton, who have a right to appeal the verdict, willRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43047,"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\/43046"}],"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=43046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}