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Gordon Taylor, the outgoing chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association, has praised the role of players in derailing the breakaway European Super League project. The Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ were involved in the plans to form a new European competition. It would have had a catastrophic impact on the Champions League and sent domestic […]
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The Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust is planning a protest against the club’s owners in their final home game of the season against Aston Villa. The move comes after the fan group called for the club’s executive board to resign in the wake of their involvement in the failed European Super League plan, insisting “change is […]
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Football billionaire’s boys club is bad for fans and bad for business, the time has come for 50+1. “As far as I’m concerned you can throw all those medals you’ve won in the bin” so said the great Brian Clough to his Leeds United team, the way they had gone about their football, jarring to […]
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Real Madrid president and European Super League founder Florentino Perez says the 12 clubs ‘cannot leave’ as they have signed ‘binding contracts’. The breakaway European competition, which would effectively replace the Champions League, broke down this week due to massive fan backlash. Fans gathered to protest outside grounds in opposition of the monumental changes to […]
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Robbie Savage believes good can still come out of the doomed Super League project – if the clubs involved are hit with hefty financial penalties. Calls for sanctions against the six Premier League clubs involved are growing, with points deductions and expulsion from competitions mooted. However, former Leicester City midfielder turned pundit Savage insists only […]
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Jordan Henderson lauds ‘power of supporters’ in statement following European Super League drama – originally posted on Sportslens.com Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson has paid tribute to the supporters after the collapse of the proposed European Super League. Livepool were one of 12 clubs that had planned to break away from UEFA and form a new […]
Keep your mails coming in to theeditor@football365.com… Boycotting the Nasty 12 will only speed up Super League Reading some of the mailbox suggestions regarding boycotting the clubs, cancelling season tickets, never buying merchandise, etc… are almost spectacularly missing the point. Doing those actions isn’t going to driver the owners out of the clubs, but […]
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Tottenham stadium snub doesn’t go far enough – punishment must fit the crime – originally posted on Sportslens.com The collapse of the European Super League (ESL) earlier this week has sparked plenty of talk about how the 12 clubs involved will be punished. The news that Tottenham Hotspur will miss out on staging European Championship […]
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Manchester City star Ilkay Gundogan has insisted that the new Champions League format is just the “lesser of two evils” compared to the European Super League. Over the past few days, football has been overshadowed by the emergence and then the collapse of the ESL. Man City were among the teams involved, but they and […]
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Josh Kroenke apologises to Arsenal fans for ESL, speaks on the club’s future – originally posted on Sportslens.com Arsenal director Josh Kroenke and chief executive Vinai Venkatesham apologised for the club’s involvement in the European Super League during an Arsenal Fans’ Forum meeting earlier today. On Sunday, the Gunners confirmed that they were one of […]
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