Saints supporters spent Friday looking at their phones, watching news channels and awaiting the verdict from the Football Association on Spygate. However nothing came out from FA headquarters and the big football news was about Manchester City's indiscretions.

They say that no news is good news and Saints fans hope that is the case, that those who are tasked by the FA to decide the fate of Tonda Eckert are either deliberating carefully or cannot agree on the level of punishment.

The good news is that it seems that they have not just decided to hammer the German as the EFL did to Southampton FC back in May, that they are considering that the punishment should fit the level of the offence.

They are also possibly taking into account our own legal representatives position on potential punishments.

That offence pales into insignificance when you consider that Manchester City were found guilty of 114 out of 115 charges levelled against them regarding their finances.

That to the casual onlooker is not just breaking a rule it is brandishing the rule book and burning it in the face of the football authorities and indeed every football club in the land.

It kind of makes Southampton & Tonda Eckert's crime of sending an intern to a couple of public spaces to view a training session, something that would have been perfectly acceptable just a day or so earlier, a little insignificant in contrast.

But after Friday came and went without any announcement we now have to sweat over the weekend for a ruling on Monday, I am assuming that they will not be working on this over the weekend.

I am also assuming that they had not reached a verdict on Friday and then decided to delay announcing it when the Manchester City news broke on Friday afternoon, if they did that then perhaps it could be announced over the weekend, but I would doubt it.

So in the meantime we have to spent the weekend being able to do nothing other than sit and wait.

Via Reuters