Chelsea fans celebrate outside Stamford Bridge in West London after it was announced the club would be applying to withdraw from the European Super League. There has been widespread hostility towards proposals for a new elite league of European football clubs, which opponents say will kill competition and damage the sport. Photo: Ben Cawthra/Sipa USA
21 April 2021 12:07pm
When the owners of 12 of Europe’s top football clubs announced on Sunday that they would be forming a closed-shop European Super League, they could not have expected the backlash that followed.
Such has been the adverse reaction of fans, players, league administrators and the media that the six English clubs that had agreed to join the new league with top clubs from Spain and Italy have pulled out three days after announcing they were part of the new structure.
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