Back from the Brink: Episode 3
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Last April, the European Super League crashed into our lives. Andy Brassell and a host of journalists, fans and familiar Ramble voices revisit what happened.
In this final episode, we map out the future of European football and the roles of the continent's main protagonists. A range of European football experts outline the current positions of various clubs, while we ask: what is all this for?
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| 0:00.0 | To me, it's not a failure. If we look at about what happened in the industry, we've been |
| 0:11.4 | hearing projects of potential breakaway leagues ever since I was probably a teenager. Last year |
| 0:20.6 | it was the first time. And today Ann Yelli was in London earlier this year in late winter. |
| 0:25.8 | He spoke publicly in the English capital for the first time since the super league came |
| 0:29.2 | apart at the seams. And remarkably, he flatly refused to accept that the project had been |
| 0:33.9 | a failure. We know the drill for prominent public figures in all walks of life today. Never |
| 0:38.3 | apologise, never explain. This was beyond that though, a denial of what we'd all seen |
| 0:43.6 | with our own eyes and heard with our own ears. It never was quite unanimous. Germany |
| 0:48.5 | and France's big boys weren't keen, and one giant in particular actually did quite |
| 0:52.8 | well out of the ESL's spectacular crash and burn. Yet Ann Yelli and Flodentino Perez |
| 0:58.7 | are still bold in fighting their corner, and their lawyers are still working. So what next? |
| 1:03.7 | Is this story going to end in fans forums, in the boardroom or in the courtroom? And what |
| 1:09.0 | does football really mean to us in 2022, 12 months on? This is the third and final part |
| 1:15.4 | back from the brink. |
| 1:17.4 | I think when you look at the precedence of the European |
| 1:27.9 | God of Justice, especially the European Court of First Instance, practice of the European |
| 1:32.6 | Commission, old English court decisions, and it's quite clear that it will be in favour |
| 1:39.1 | of the super league. |
| 1:40.6 | In the coming months, the European Court of Justice is due to decide whether the super |
| 1:44.1 | league is protected by EU law and, by extension, whether UEFA have an unfair monopoly over European |
| 1:50.6 | football. It will be hugely significant, and Mark Orte only sees it going one way. |
| 1:57.0 | Mark is a leading sports competition lawyer. He was keen to stress that his work involves |
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