Southampton joins a list of sports teams to be punished for spying on rivals

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Spying on its opponents has potentially cost English soccer club Southampton a place in the Premier League and around $270 million. The team from England’s southcoast was expelled Tuesday from the second-tier Championship playoff final after admitting to the unauthorized filming of other clubs’ practice sessions. The playoff final is labelled the world’s richest one-off soccer match because a windfall of at least 200 million pounds ($270 million) in future Premier League earnings is on offer

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