Football, Money and the European Super League

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The attempt to create a new European Super League might have been short-lived with the attempt to form a breakaway competition collapsing in the face of widespread protests and denunciations from fans, but what led to this point? In this episode, Dan is joined by Jonathan Wilson of the Guardian Football Weekly and author of Inverting the Pyramid. Jonathan takes us from the origins of the sport over a hundred years ago through to the big business of the modern game. This historical perspective helps to shed light on what might have caused clubs to try and break away.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History.
0:02.8	This week we had the very short lived experiment in European super league football.
0:07.4	It was exciting.
0:08.4	It lasted 36 hours.
0:09.8	I think it was.
0:11.6	We hardly got to know the super league, but what people did find out about it, it almost
0:17.3	universally hated.
0:18.3	Very unusually, even provoked the royal family, Prince William, to break his usual silence
0:25.0	about contemporary politics and condemn it as well as politicians or other cross-the-political
0:30.9	spectrum here in the UK.
0:33.4	Someone on twitter.com, go and touch me yesterday, saying, you need to interview Jonathan
0:38.1	Wilson, the very famous English football writer, about the history of how we got to this point.
0:43.4	You do an emergency podcast, and so I said, okay, within 10 minutes, I hooked up with Jonathan
0:49.5	on the internet.
0:50.5	We'd arranged a time to talk, and we recorded this fantastic conversation in which he talked
0:55.1	me through the history of the sport from the days of English public schoolboys.
0:59.6	Public schoolboys, for all my North American listeners, are private schoolboys.
1:03.3	It's one of the many strange, terminological, witnesses of British life.
1:09.0	Anyway, so those public-slash private schoolboys kicking the ball around to where we are at
1:13.6	the present, which is players being bought, sold, or tens, hundreds of millions of pounds.
1:19.7	Anyway, Jonathan Wilson's total legend, he writes for the Guardian, he writes for various
1:24.0	other places, written wonderful books about the history of football.
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