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KEEPING TONDA DISPLAYS SAINTS’ FAITH…

IN ANY other walk of life, a person who deprived their company of a shot at earning £200m would surely have been fired.
That’s why I was very surprised when Southampton stuck with Tonda Eckert following their expulsion from the play-offs over the so-called Spygate scandal. From a pragmatic standpoint, however, I understand it.
Spygate was always a storm in a teacup. In this day and age, with so much data and insight available to clubs, there’s practically nothing you can learn by watching an opponent train.
Even if Eckert did it every game, that information would ...

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