Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

After a landmark ruling against the police officer who murdered George Floyd, we have a

quick word with our United States editor about what the verdict means.

And the Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but unlike other

ethnicities, they've never had their own state. Not for the lack of trying. We take a look

through decades of dashed hopes and at where things stand now.

Plus you probably know many of the rules, I before E except after C and so on. But the

truth is that spelling, particularly in English, is weird. That's W-E-I-R-D. We ask why

that is and whether anything should or even could be done about it.

First up though.

In London last night, football fans celebrated in the streets.

We just made history. We just made history.

The cheers weren't for a new trophy, but rather for the failure of a plan that had convulsed

the sport for the past few days. On Sunday, 12 of Europe's best known football clubs had

said they were going to break away from existing competitions to form a super league. But the

ambitious plan fell apart within days of being announced. Under pressure from fans, coaches,

even prime ministers. Then late last night, the dominoes began to fall. First, Manchester

City, then Chelsea, and then all six English Premier League teams said they would withdraw.

Yet the dissolution of the league doesn't spell the end of the problems facing the beautiful

game. The European super league is super no longer. Henry Kerr is our economic editor.

But the collapse of the plan in the face of public outrage doesn't mean that football's

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