Reform in Football, Part I â Background Setting the background for possible responses to the Super League debacle The public announcements of the formation of a European Super League, the fact that six of the miscreants were the largest of the English clubs, merrily plotting whilst pretending business as normal within the usual day to day structure and administration of the Premier League, has awoken professional football from its money fuelled, abusive relationship-based, inadequate governance and management coma. Perhaps, the argument in mitigation for this to happen is that attention was focused elsewhere with the impact of the pandemic, the up-coming round of media rights negotiations and tenders, but actually I think that is being too kind to all of them.