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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyne-Fraiser Nelson.

The government's interventions in response to plans for a Super League in football are stepping up a gear.

The PM is meeting officials from football governing bodies, the FA and the Premier League,

as well as fans

for representatives later to discuss the proposed European Super League. Fraser, on the surface,

this is a story about football, but it's also a story which has joined, at least united the country

in widespread condemnation. We have Kirstama, we have Boris Johnson, we have Prince William.

Does it look as though the Super

League is going to happen? And is it about more than that? I think this is a huge story. That's

not just about football. It's about culture, society, the limits of the free market and how far

big corporations can push their luck. I think that all of the breakaway clubs would have wargamed

this. They would have worked out that there would be uproar from the fans, uproar from the politicians.

But the whole move is based on the supposition that there's nothing you can do. There's nothing

you can do to stop us. Now that's not the case in Germany when Portugal were there

rules that fans own almost half of the club. That's to stop them behaving like corporations

who can do what they want. But in Britain, I mean, we've got this global appeal for our

Premiership Football Clubs. There's some of the biggest businesses in the world, some of the most

recognised British brands in the world,

and they behave like global corporates. You can argue this is perhaps a logical progression of a path that

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