The EFL punishment was ludicrous.
They should have intervened immediately, awarded Middlesbrough a 1-0 win for the home game plus the 4 points for the two other instances of spying and that would have been that. Tonda could then have been dealt with in a slightly harsher way (i.e. 3 month ban).
That would have been much more proportionate all-round and would have had far less impact on innocent parties like the players and fans.