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Hello and welcome to the New Statement Podcast.

The news is on holiday this week, I'm Alva.

I'm Stephen and this week we discuss the European Super League and football's gendered hold on our national discourse

and you ask us, why can't the United Kingdom attract a higher quality of Merrill Canada?

So, Alva, this is the revenge, the revenge of the monarchy episode.

So, for those of you who've missed the news, 12 of Europe's most successful football clubs

or other 11 of Europe's most successful football clubs and Tottenham Hotspur

have announced their intention to form a new European and Super League

where they would play midweek in a tournament in which none of the 12 members could be relegated or kicked out.

The theory is they'd continue to accrue vast sums of money.

This would obviously distort domestic competition but of course the other problem

is that because teams wouldn't be relegated there would be few consequences

for failure and mismanagement to the extent there are sufficient consequences for that in football already.

So, I think there's a lot of interesting about that.

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