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The Super League failed not necessarily due to fan backlash, but because it was so amateurish. It’ll return – we must cut it off at the legs. Last week’s Super League coup was amateurish. They bottled it almost immediately. But was this more a failure of marketing and politicking than it was of anything […]
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UEFA aren’t kidding anyone – they need to find their backbone, before it’s too late… “Disgraceful”, was how UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin described it. “Disgraceful”, “self-serving”, and “a spit in the face” of football. Ceferin, of course, was referring to the European Super League. Created on Sunday as the brainchild of 12 of Europe’s […]
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Thanks for all the e-mails on the Super League, Liverpool and more that continue to roll in. Send more to theeditor@football365.com Why would those owners stay? As the dust settles on ESL fallout and we can move on from the ‘my enemies enemy is my friend’ and go back to hating UEFA, FIFA, VAR […]
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The Super League came and went quickly, leaving a pile of victors and a big old pile of losers… Winners The Fans There are caveats and conditions and there must be an acknowledgement that if things just return to the status quo and the current energy dissipates then it won’t be much of a […]
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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The Premier League’s ‘big six’ have been confirmed among 12 “Founding Clubs” for a new European Super League. Those clubs announced in a statement: “Twelve of Europe’s leading football clubs have today come together to announce they have agreed to establish a new mid-week competition, the Super League, governed by its Founding Clubs. “AC Milan, […]
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There was a moment towards the end of another soporific Manchester United first-half performance that really captured the mood of the afternoon. It wasn’t anything that happened on the pitch – very little did, really, for 45 minutes and 46 seconds after a narrowly offside Chris Wood appeared to have given Burnley a shock early […]
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