MINI: Southampton FC Spygate

Christian discusses the recent controversy surrounding Southampton FC's intern who was caught spying on the opposing team's training session. Christian is stressed about the situation!

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, this is.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast. Guys. Another twenty four hours
on from my team Southampton winning and now I'm even
more stressed because of Spygates. Alex educate people listening now
to spygates.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It is crazy. So there's now a shot of a
spy yep and in turn someone spied on the spy, yes, spying.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
On Southampton's team that they beat yesterday in a big
playoffs final to get promoted back into the Premiership. And
if you get promoted, it changes the fortunes of the club.
You're back in the biggest league in the world. You're
automatically going to give it big balloon payment about thirty
to forty million dollars so you can buy an extra
plays and you're back in the biggest league in the world.

(01:08):
We were in the Premiership for decades. A couple of
years ago we crashed out. It's very very hard to
get back up. Wrexham looked like they were about to
get back into it, didn't make it, and so over
the last eight or nine months. Southampton had a terrible
startless season and have worked so hard as a club
to get into this incredible position where they have now
at the moment made it into a Wembley playoff final

(01:31):
where the winner gets promoted. However, Alex tell them why
they could not even be at the game a week
Saturday at Wembley and the fans have already bought the
tickets now and booked accommodation. It's insane and now they're
going to be rushing through a court case. This really
is a global story. Even the Uber driver today listens
to the show goes, oh my god, how are you

(01:52):
about a spygate? I've actually listened to some English radio
station called talkSPORT. They're all talking about spygates.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
So this intern was at the middle.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm going on a UK drive show talkSPORT to that
this afternoon their time to talk about spygate. They've got
their fan down under concerned in Melbourne. Christian o'color Christian
joins us, Now.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
That's crazy, but it's so insane what is going on?
Because this intern was at middles portraying that's who they
played against us, that's who they beat and there's also
reports now that this has been ongoing. This isn't the
first time Southampton.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't however, I will just say anyone can fling
around accusations that's crazy an in turn, I mean, look,
we have interns here. They don't represent the radio station,
so they get sent to some keen s no one
out the Saintly Saints sent him to spy on middle

(02:48):
This is his own idea. Anywhere a kid with a
good bit of gumption, I tell you what, I'm going
to hire that kid. We need. Actually, don't worry about
spine on our rivals. It's pretty obvious they've been in
the same radio for the last thirty years.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
But the photo is hilarious, Like he's behind.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
A tree, behind a tree, and Alex it looks like
something from an eighties movie, like Paul. You know, he's
spying on the girl's volleyball team, and he's.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Got his phone like horizontally yeah, like looking into his
he's the world's shittest spy. Terrible you've seen it Rio.
He's literally he's not even hiding behind the tree. Three
quarters on him is is out from the tree.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Try to look less like you're spying. Yeah, more the
thing of like, how how bad are Middlesbrough team that
they didn't see there's someone leaning on a tree, not
hiding behind a tree, filming us.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's almost looks set up.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
It looks it looks like a joke.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's how bad it is.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
So it's just some young kid, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, he looks about a does bless him, but not
bless him if we don't go up because of this.
It's and now they're trying to rush through this court
case because time really is pressing, and they're saying that
Southampton could be thrown out of it and Middlesbrough, the
team they beat yesterday now go through to the playoffs.
That is just I can't even I can't even understand.

(04:08):
I kind of even think about that possibility. Heartbreaking for
the team and the fans. That's worse than just losing yesterday. Yeah,
I said to you at one point, I said, rather
than the way we lost, rather than we win. And
then there's a court case tomorrow on Monday, and they're
thrown out the whole competition. Yeah, it's all going to
come down to because legally you can spy on another

(04:29):
club and watch their open training sessions, but not seventy
two hours before the game. Oh yeah, right, okay, so
you can spy sometimes, yeah, but not always. And so
they only brought that rule in recently. The Premiership don't
even have a rule for spine because obviously they just
presumed that you should be doing that and you would
gain an unsportsmanly favor and advantage and that's what it's

(04:51):
going to come down to. The ruling on that. So
bad and you've just got bad feeling as well.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, the coach walking out as well in the press
conference he was asked about it just gets up, walks out.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was not a good look. No, that's don't worry.
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