‘What can you spy there?’ – Jakirovic sees funny side to ‘Spygate’ | OneFootball

Hull City head coach Sergej Jakirović found the funny side to ‘Spygate’ after guiding the Tigers to the Premier League.

Oli McBurnie’s 95th minute winner saw Hull, who finished sixth in the Championship, return to the Premier League for the first time in nine years at the expense of Middlesbrough.

Kim Hellberg’s side had been reinstated in the Play-offs after Southampton, whom Boro lost to in the semi-finals, were expelled after being admitting to spying on oppositions by the EFL.

Jakirović, who is in his first season in charge of the Tigers, found the funnier side to the drama after securing promotion.

“This Friday, two weeks ago when I heard for the first time after my first leg, I started to laugh because what you can spy there?” Jakirović said.

“I know everything about the Championship, about every club, about every manager, about every player, because this is my job.

“Okay, you can know [Hayden] Hackney will play, but if you call one angry player in [their] team, he can say to you, ‘Hackney will play. I’m not playing, he will play.’

“He’s angry, that happens in football, but to send the guy to do this, I don’t understand this. I start to laugh and then I see, because in my country it’ll be ‘ha ha ha,’ nothing will happen, but here I see that it’s too serious.

“And then Tuesday we had tactical training for Southampton and then in the evening, change completely everything, but we prepare our team no matter who will be our opponent.”