Tonda Eckert’s Southampton future unclear as FA investigation into spygate continues

The brief

The future of Southampton’s manager, Tonda Eckert, remains shrouded in uncertainty as he waits to learn the outcome of a lengthy and detailed Football Association investigation into last season’s spygate scandal. In May the English Football League expelled Southampton from the Championship playoff final against Hull after finding that a club intern engaged as a first-team analyst had spied on a key Middlesbrough training session before the semi-final first leg at the Riverside. Southampton and Eckert also admitted to the EFL disciplinary commission that the manager had “specifically authorised” similarly clandestine operations against two other opponents during the course of the season. The other instances of Southampton’s EFL rule-breaching espionage…