Hi there, it's Adam Leventhal here and this is the first of three editions of The Athletic

Live which were recorded during the International Break, some bonus listening for you on the on steam and Chapman feed.

Basically they were three live Zoom shows that we put out on the athletics Twitter feed that we thought

you might want to have a listen to, so we put them out right here.

This discussion asks the question, should there be a European Super League?

It is a hot, hot topic.

And our expert panel were Adam Crafton, Matt Slater and Raphael Honekstein,

alongside me as the host. We hope you enjoy it.

Let's get stuck in then. Who shall I pick first to outline the

basics of this of what is on the table? What is the European Super League? What are we

talking about? Let's, yes, Matt, I think Matt is the man to do it. You wrote a fantastic article about this at the end of last month just sort of outlining what

it's all about you've won the special price so what is the current guise of a

European Super League that we're talking about at the moment?

I think the short answer is it depends who you're talking to, when you're talking to them,

what they're sort of hidden agenda is at that particular moment.

I don't think there is a formal document

circulating out there that this is what the European Serapi League will look like. If it is,

it's probably a rebooted version of something that was drawn up in the late 80s and has been

updated, scribbling out the names, changing a few, rejigging bits and bobs,

changing the graphics for 25, 30 years.

I think the reason we're talking about it now,

and I wrote about it whenever I wrote about it is it came up again. It came

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