The Athletic.

So here we go again.

European football is back this week and last week the Super League returned with promises of a new

look structure based on sporting performance with no permanent

members. Is it too good to be true or could this be a positive reset for the game.

Coming up you'll hear exactly what is being proposed

and by whom and how football has responded

and what happens next.

I'm Mark Chapman.

This is the Athletic Football Podcast. The very foundation of European football is under threat. It is time for change.

European club football is at a tipping point.

Huge imbalances have emerged across the continent and clubs with glorious European traditions

are no longer able to compete.

Our objective is to present a sustainable sporting project for European club competitions

which should set the framework for a future European club competition.

So on this one we're joined by the athletics, Matt Slater and Adam Crafton.

It never really went away, did it Adam?

Not really. I mean, you know, I mean you know I mean I mean I think most English football fans

would be surprised to learn or maybe not surprised to learn that even the English

clubs are still my right saying they've not actually

extra case of the themselves yet from the legal process of leaving, of leaving the

super league. Not officially. I remember at the time people who work at those clubs

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