{"id":682118,"date":"2026-05-20T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682118\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:08:10","slug":"wrexhams-josh-windass-wants-championship-play-offs-restart-amid-spygate-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682118\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham&#8217;s Josh Windass wants Championship play-offs restart amid spygate scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wrexham\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wrexham<\/a> finished nine points behind Southampton at the end of the regular season. Replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/southampton\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southampton<\/a> in the play-offs was not a potential outcome of the EFL&#8217;s independent disciplinary commission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the club is monitoring the situation and will wait for the imminent release of the full written reasons of the verdict before considering if there is any course of action to take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One option is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wrexham\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wrexham<\/a> &#8211; and other clubs impacted &#8211; could have the potential of a legal claim for compensation if it is shown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/southampton\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southampton<\/a> gained an unfair advantage during the campaign, affecting the chances of reaching the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No discussions have taken place at this stage, but the club is keeping options open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We look forward to receiving the full details of the decision in due course,&#8221; a club spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wrexham\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wrexham<\/a> owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac have both posted images on social media mocking Southampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham finished nine points behind Southampton at the end of the regular season. Replacing Southampton in the play-offs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-682118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}