Europe s media rejoiced on Wednesday morning after the controversial European Super League plans were left in tatters, with Mundo Deportivo boldly headlining with BREXIT following all of England s Big Six withdrawing their membership.
Chelsea fans staged a mass protest outside Stamford Bridge and the Blues and Manchester City began the process of killing off the rebel league less than 48 hours after its launch by pulling out, with Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham all eventually following suit.
The Super League proposal was the brainchild of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, whose dreams were shattered on Tuesday night.
Spanish sports paper Mundo came down hard on the 74-year-old executive, headlining with BREXIT on their front page this morning alongside Super League agony - the English clubs leave Florentino s project while AS stated: England blows up the Super League!
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by Binoy Kampmark / April 20th, 2021
Suffocating the grassroots. Mocking the working class origins of the game. World football, and primarily European club football, has long done away with loyalties in favour of cash and contract. The professionalization of the game has seen a difficult relationship between fan, spectator and sporting management, none better exemplified than the price of tickets, the role of branding and sponsorship.
The apotheosis of this has arrived in the form of a proposed breakaway European Super League. Like a mafia-styled cartel, twelve of Europe’s elite football clubs have banded together to create their own, sealed competition. The English contribution will be Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal. Juventus, AC Milan and Inter provide the Italian contingent; Barcelona, Real Madrid and Athletico Bilbao supply the Spanish element. To these will be added three as yet unconfirmed founding members and fiv
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 1:01 pm
Suffocating the grassroots. Mocking the working class
origins of the game. World football, and primarily European
club football, has long done away with loyalties in favour
of cash and contract. The professionalization of the game
has seen a difficult relationship between fan, spectator and
sporting management, none better exemplified than the price
of tickets, the role of branding and sponsorship.
The
apotheosis of this has arrived in the form of a proposed
breakaway European Super League. Like a mafia-styled cartel,
twelve of Europe’s elite football clubs have banded
together to create their own, sealed competition. The
President Čeferin: Footballing world and society stand united against closed Super League Tuesday 20 April 2021
Article summary
At a press conference following approval of the new post -2024 format for UEFA club competitions, President Aleksander Čeferin spoke out strongly against the notion of a European Super League .
Article top media content UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin during a press conference following the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Switzerland on 19 April 2021.
Article body It is not just the football community. All of society and governments are united I cannot stress more strongly at this moment that UEFA and the footballing world stand united against the disgraceful, self-serving proposals we have seen from a select few clubs in Europe that are fuelled by greed above all else.