European Super League: A busted flush?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this year football fans, politicians and royalty united against the breakaway European Super League. Today we reveal how the multibillion-pound plan was scuppered and ask: could it still be revived?
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Guest: Oliver Shah, business editor at The Sunday Times. Oliver's article on the Super League can be read here.
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| 1:07.2 | football didn't quite come home was also the year the richest part of it |
| 1:12.0 | nearly departed forever this so-called dirty dozen have scheme to execute a |
| 1:17.8 | breakaway which will reshape football forever a plot so audacious even the |
| 1:22.8 | prime minister is intervening it was leaked that a new european super league |
| 1:27.8 | was being set up six top English clubs were signed up the football revolution |
| 1:33.3 | was on the balloon went up everybody went bonkers no one was over the moon |
| 1:38.9 | and within days the whole thing was a smoking ruin never to be rebuilt choose |
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