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mike lupica mitch album and bob ryan i'm bob ryan of the boston globe and espn i'm mch alb of the

detroit free press i know them i'm mike lupica m lb.com in the new york daily news welcome to the Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

I know them. I'm Mike Lupig, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.

Welcome to the Thursday edition, the Sports Supporters podcast.

And we do something today that we have never done before.

We start with soccer.

Their football, not ours. And one of the most amazing stories playing out in front of our eyes quickly and in real time that I can remember

that the fans, the fans rose up and they stopped this cock-eyed idea about this European

Super League and forced three different American owners to have to apologize for coming up with this thing.

And, guys, you may recall another power to the people moment like this in sports,

but offhand, I can't think of one.

No, this is a remarkable circumstance.

And what it does speak to is the difference in the cultures, the European culture, and specifically European, we're talking Europe here, but I think

the same would be true in South America. But the European culture and the American culture, and the American

culture does not involve an idea of relegation

for people who don't know. It means that each year, the bottom, I think it's four teams in the

Premier League, for example, in England are thrown out and teams are promoted from the lesser

divisions.

Every year you have to earn your way in, and you have to earn your way into the European the Champions League by winning, by being in the top four if you're a Premier

League team every year, and it changes every year, and that's the way they like it.

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