Rob Harris of the Associated Press on the Super League Debacle

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The European Super League debacle is the soccer story of the year, and Grant is joined to discuss all the aspects of it by Rob Harris, the global sports correspondent of the Associated Press and the co-host of the terrific new Sports Unlocked Podcast. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it costs only $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there. Welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview
0:12.9	guest is Rob Harris, the global sports correspondent for the Associated Press, to break down the giant
0:20.0	super league fiasco. We've had some great guests lately, including Miguel Delaney,
0:25.6	Paul Tonorio, and Daryl Dique. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series,
0:30.8	American Prodigy, the Freddie adieu story. You can binge all eight episodes to your heart's content.
0:37.6	It just got nominated for a webby for documentary podcast series. Now here's my interview with Rob Harris.
0:47.9	It's one of the craziest European soccer weeks of all time. The breakaway super league with 12
0:54.5	of the biggest clubs in Europe has come and gone in just 48 hours. I'm joined to discuss it now with
1:02.0	by Rob Harris. He's the global sports correspondent for the Associated Press, and he co-hosts a
1:08.6	terrific new podcast called Sport Unlocked with Martin Ziegler of the Times of London, which you
1:14.5	should definitely check out. Rob, thanks for joining me. Great to join you. Lots to talk about,
1:20.6	obviously, this week. We're speaking at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, New York time. There's been a lot
1:26.8	of news over the last two days. I'm going to assume our listeners know the basics of the super league,
1:32.8	the 12 big clubs that declared they were breaking away from Champions League, only to have it
1:37.5	all fall apart, almost immediately, with all six English teams leading on Tuesday.
1:43.5	What would you say, Rob, are the biggest reasons that this was a giant failure in the end?
1:50.1	Well, it was a complete failure of strategy by all the clubs. They completely misjudged the
1:55.2	public mood. It means they launched a competition that collapsed before a ball was even
1:59.5	picked in it. No team ever lost the game. No team ever won the game, although I think the top
2:05.4	of the table would be AC Milan Bon Afterbetica, Lorda. So, congratulations to them as the super league
2:13.1	champions. It was just a monumental misreading of the room, the disregard for the fans,
2:20.4	and for the joy of the existing structures and the need to preserve them, and just what it means
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