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EXCLUSIVE BY CRAIG HOPE:
Middlesbrough have caught what is thought to be a
Southampton first-team analyst allegedly recording their training session from a bush‚ in a sensational repeat of the
Marcelo Bielsa 'spygate' furore. Daily
Mail Sport can reveal that an individual was spotted and approached by club staff on Thursday morning at
Boro's Rockliffe Park training centre‚ 48 hours before Kim Hellberg's side host Tonda Eckert's
Saints in the
Championship play-off semi-final first leg. It is claimed the male deleted video and pictures from his mobile phone and refused to identify himself. He then left the site of the training ground and made his way into the nearby Rockliffe Hall Hotel‚ owned by
Boro chairman Steve Gibson‚ before changing clothes in a toilet and leaving the area. It is understood
Boro have contacted the
EFL‚ given spying on opposition training would breach the League's rules.