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The past 72 hours have highlighted three undeniable truths: Capitalist billionaires enjoy making money. There is strength in numbers. Football is a sport plagued by hypocrisies. I feel I should preface this article by declaring my staunch opposition to the ESL. While I concede an ESL-like competition is a natural progression, I cannot endorse it […]
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What a 48 hours that was. European Super League, we hardly knew ye. As the dominoes started to fall yesterday it soon became clear the whole thing was going to crash down around its instigators faster than any of us had even dared to hope. One by one, the Big Six cartel fell, sombrely announcing […]
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Send your European Super League thoughts to theeditor@football365.com Time to rebuild football I loved Alex Keble’s piece today. He’s right, now we need to continue this unity and build on it. For the longest time I must admit I thought people like Johnny Nic, were overly hysterical. No more. Let’s push for 51:49, sign […]
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In the giddy, whirlwind 48 hours between the formation and dissolution of the Super League, Spurs somehow managed to find time to sack their manager. Brought in to finally take Spurs away from their Spursy heritage and deliver long-awaited silverware, Jose Mourinho instead made them Spursier than they had been at any time since Tim […]
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Daniel Levy stuck with Jose Mourinho for as long as he could, but the risk of disillusioned Spurs players leaving en masse forced his hand. TEN A PENNY Much like seemingly every other team, Tottenham were apparently bullied into joining ‘the group developing proposals for a European Super League’. They had no choice but […]
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The Super League is not dead; not yet. Its collapse on Tuesday was a powerful victory for fans and their communities but it must be the start of something bigger. If not, it will simply return in another guise. We must act on this righteous anger; must capitalise on our renewed sense of power; must […]
Read More… from We have won this battle; now use that anger to win wars
Don’t let anybody tell you that football does not listen to fans when they unite and mobilise. Don’t let anybody tell you that football does not listen to the media when they react like fans. Don’t let anybody tell you that football does not listen to pundits who talk in revolutionary tones. Don’t let anybody […]
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Tricky one this week. In as much as identifying a single prick among the vast array of pricks in a record-breaking week for prickery (the pandemic has had a bizarre timey-wimey effect on everything but it freaks our nut out that it is only five days since Spurs’ biggest online problem was getting bantered off […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 31: Perez, official spokesb*stard for the Dirty Dozen
No doubt there are one or two executives having second thoughts over The Super League after the backlash the Snakey Six have received since Sunday. How likely is each club to pull out? We’ve ranked the dirty half-dozen, from most likely to withdraw, to most likely to sit it out and become a traveling circus… […]
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Danny Rose is hardly the first player to rejoice at his manager’s demise. Paul Pogba wouldn’t hide his glee… Rose wasted no time in revelling in Jose Mourinho’s misery on Monday. The exiled defender was driven to Tottenham’s training ground, making sure that Sky Sports’ cameras knew he had arrived and were aware of his […]
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