The Not So Super League

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Peter Thal Larsen of Breakingviews joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about the mess with soccer’s Super League, what happened with Greensill, and the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. In the Plus segment: Immersive Vincent Van Gogh exhibits. Mentioned in the show: “They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War,” by Andy Greenberg for Wired. “Dueling Van Gogh Exhibits Cause Confusion Across America,” by Selene San Felice for Axios. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:09.0	Welcome to the not so super league episode of Slate Money,
0:18.0	your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week,
0:21.0	which this week means football.
0:24.4	Real football, not American football.
0:26.5	I am Felix Salmon of Axios.
0:29.3	I am joined by Emily Peck.
0:32.0	Hello.
0:33.0	And I'm also joined, I'm quite excited about this, by Peter Thal Larson.
0:39.0	Peter, introduce yourself, who are you and what is your affiliation?
0:43.0	So I'm Peter Fellows, I'm the Emia Editor at Reuters Breaking Views, which is the commentary arm of the global
0:50.5	news organization.
0:51.5	And you are an arsenal supporter?
0:53.8	I am for my sins, yes.
0:55.4	I do not understand this, but we will talk about...
0:58.2	Me neither.
0:59.2	We will talk about soccer, arsenal, and the crazy plan they cooked up with 11 other teams to break off and form a super league.
1:08.0	Very important plan, we have to say it didn't last very long, we're going to talk about that.
1:12.0	We're going to talk about that we're going to talk about
1:13.1	Lex Greensill the financier who went spectacularly belly up in the UK and all
1:20.0	across Europe and try and work out what the hell happened there.
1:23.8	We are going to talk about COVID in Europe and why and whether the European countries are going
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