Article 5GTPA The greed of the European Super League has been decades in the making | David Goldblatt

The greed of the European Super League has been decades in the making | David Goldblatt

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David Goldblatt
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The time for compromise is over. We must wrest football back from the coterie of billionaires who have deformed it

It is a measure of football's remarkable cultural weight that the plot to create a breakaway European Super League (ESL) has dominated the media since it was announced late on Sunday night - and provoked a furious response not simply from every corner of the football world, but from 10 Downing Street and the Elysee Palace.

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