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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: THE MURDER OF FOOTBALL – Inside the Superleague scandal

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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THIS PODCAST WAS RECORDED BEFORE CHELSEA AND MAN CITY LEFT THE COMPETITION: English football clubs triggered shockwaves of revulsion at the weekend when they announced their plans to join a €4bn breakaway ‘Super League’. Is the plan starting to crack, and can English football be saved? The man who broke the story, Chief Sports Reporter for The Times Martyn Ziegler, tells Andrew Harrison how a greed-fuelled vanity project came about, why the owners are unwise to discount “legacy fans”, and if there’s anything fans can do to stop it.   “This has gone beyond sabre rattling, this is civil war” “These owners simply don’t care about the tradition and community that surrounds their football clubs” “There is no doubt that the clubs have been taken aback by the reaction from fans, the media and even politicians” “The Premier League’s success is built on the fact that Leicester can win the title, and ‘Super League’ clubs can have a bad season” “In 30 years of reporting on sport I have never known the Government behave like this towards football” Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

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I loved going to college.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Andrew Harrison. If you're a football fan this week has been utterly sickening, a self-designated

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big six of English teams announced on Sunday that they were breaking away from the Premier League

1:19.2

to join three Spanish and three Italian sides in a new European Super League bankroll by JP Morgan

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with 4 billion euros of debt finance. They include Manchester City, Manchester United,

1:28.9

Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs and to my shame and revulsion my own same Liverpool.

1:33.4

If it goes ahead that's the end of nearly 125 years of football history, promotion and

1:37.8

relegation, key local darbies like Liverpool versus Everton and for many of us

1:41.6

our relationship with the teams we've supported since

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childhood. The reaction has been poisonous and furious.

1:46.8

At the Liverpool Leeds game on Monday we had the astounding size of a man in a Liverpool shirt,

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