Championship

SPYGATE? IT WOULDN’T WORRY ME AT ALL

by
The LeaguePaper Team
13 January 2019

I DON’T quite know how to react to the Leeds/Derby ‘spygate’ situation.
The easiest way to think is ‘how would I feel if it happened to me?’.
Being brutally honest, it really wouldn’t worry me at all. There are so many ways in which information leaks out of a club anyway.
We are always hearing about a player telling an agent that he isn’t selected and suddenly the world knows the team that his club is picking.
A manager always has to take care around key match-winning tactics and I think that most managers would screen their very best concepts in su...

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