Protesters on the Pitch: Why the Failed Super League is Haunting Soccer

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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As Europe’s Champions League Semifinals start today, the soccer world is still reeling from protesting fans in England. Hundreds stormed Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester on Sunday, injured police officers and led Liverpool and Man United to reschedule their game. It all stems back to a failed plan for Europe’s biggest soccer teams to form a breakaway league, that revealed team owners’ and populist fans’ diverging ideas about the future of soccer in Europe. As long-standing tensions flare up, global sports correspondent Sam Borden breaks down the culture and economics in play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listen, we understand the emotions of fans, but a section of them went overboard and damaging their own stadium, breaching their own stadium, throwing missiles at the police.
0:15.6	I think it's pretty clear. That's too far in terms of protest.
0:20.0	What's too far in European soccer these days is in the eye of the beholder.
0:25.6	Because to many of those protesters at Old Trafford Stadium, the hallowed home of Manchester United,
0:31.6	so much of Sunday's chaos felt deserved.
0:35.6	Even overdue as the smoke billowed and the scheduled match
0:40.4	between Liverpool and Man United got postponed.
0:44.8	So today, Sam Borden surveys this populist revolution, ignited by the failed European Super
0:51.3	League, which, even in death, continues to push English soccer to the brink.
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