The So, What a weird week? Couple of comfortable victories, but it turns out United are on the verge of trying to ruin

football forever what do you want to do first burnly it's not never an appealing

prospect or European Super League stuff why don't we go with the big story of the day?

Because honestly, I mean, you know, it was, it's, I'd say you, there's this old adage isn't there that you need a good day to bury bad news and

this coming out when United are playing Burnley's not the best day because it's never

going to be that exciting they should have buried it under a you know

mega top of the table clash or something.

Well, I don't think they were trying to bury it, were they?

Because, so I had actually been giving a heads up about this about three months ago that this was going to be

announced to this season and that it was really happening as an alternative to

to the to the Gazprom

rather than there's an alternative to the domestic leagues. So we should say we're recording this at 6.30 on Sunday night.

I'm sure an awful lot more will have probably come out by the time you hear

this about the specifics and all that stuff so this is a bit kind of slightly unfortunate

timing although I guess it would have been worse if

if they if it hadn't come out until after we'd finish recording this and then

everything we'd said would have been totally redundant because it does look like the

the future of football is going to be radically different.

So it's probably, well, it's worth saying at this point that the most likely thing that's

happening here is this is a bargaining chip, a very intense bargaining chip.

I'll just give a pricey for anyone that has not been up on what's happened.

Something like 14 clubs, including five from England and then clubs from Italy and Spain, not France or Germany, have said that they are proposing to start a breakaway Super League from, well, a breakaway European

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