Football clubs back out of Super League, Derek Chauvin found guilty in murder of George Floyd
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A jury in Minneapolis found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on three charges in the killing of George Floyd, TikTok is accused of illegally collecting personal data on millions of children in the UK and Europe. Plus, the FT’s sports editor, Murad Ahmed, has the latest in the European football upheaval and the decision by leading English clubs to back out of plans for a new Super League.
Leaked Super League plans reveal goal of US-style football finances
https://www.ft.com/content/e80299a4-8012-447a-8512-c24e149304b1
Defund the police: how a protest slogan triggered a policy debate
https://www.ft.com/content/76a8080c-cca9-48cd-be81-891a75676adf
TikTok sued on behalf of millions of European children over data concerns
https://www.ft.com/content/02bb235f-f6f3-42be-a921-bc2c86b86271?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, April 21st. |
| 0:03.6 | And this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:09.6 | A jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of |
| 0:14.1 | murdering George Floyd. We'll take a look at police-defunding efforts in that city. |
| 0:18.9 | Plus, TikTok is being sued over children's privacy concerns. |
| 0:22.9 | But first, we'll have the latest on the upheaval in European football and plans for a super leak. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:34.4 | Late last night, all six English football clubs pulled out of a radical plan to create a European |
| 0:40.3 | super leak. A dozen clubs had just announced plans for the breakaway competition, |
| 0:44.7 | a move that would have shattered the existing world of European football. |
| 0:49.0 | But the backlash was swift and brutal. I asked the FT Sports Editor, Rod Ahmed, what happened? |
| 0:55.9 | Well, the overwhelming opposition of fans, politicians, |
| 1:02.0 | pundits, and just about everyone you could think of killed the super leak before it got started. |
| 1:10.2 | The opposition was just so viciferous and unrelenting and there were threats of sanctions |
| 1:18.0 | of players of the super leak clubs not being able to play in national team competitions like |
| 1:22.6 | the World Cup, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggesting that they could even |
| 1:28.0 | legislate to stop the competition. It all just got too much and in a series of coordinated moves |
| 1:35.8 | on Tuesday night, the English clubs all pulled out. |
| 1:39.5 | So we should mention that one of the big driving forces behind the super leak plan was US Sports |
| 1:45.3 | team owners who also happened to own European clubs. They wanted to make the super leak happen |
| 1:50.5 | basically so they could have a closed loop system that would make them more money. |
| 1:55.2 | What happens next for these teams and these owners? |
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