This time of year is pretty stressful for a subset of teams that play up and down the English Football League pyramid, as this is when select teams lock promotions and relegation from one league to another. Up and down the EFL food chain, the better teams get promoted to the next league, while the bad teams get relegated to lower leagues. There are huge financial implications to all of this. If you want a crash course on the system and how a team can go from the lowest league to a whisper away from the Premier League, watch ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ on Hulu. And a funny thing happened in the playoff round of the EFL Championship (the 2nd league level of the pyramid, just below the top Premier League) between Middlesbrough FC and Southampton FC: A photograph has emerged of the Southampton analyst allegedly observing Middlesbrough’s training session last Thursday, just 48 hours before the two clubs met in the Championship play-off semi-final first leg. The photograph, originally published in…
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