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European Super Greed: Where Will it Lead?

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  European Super Greed:  Where Will it Lead? 11 June 2021 3 min read  We’re on the doorstep of a new European football tournament.  They are a year late, but the Euro’s are here.  This week’s sports news spoke of the after-shocks of another European non- tournament. The seismic story of the season- the rapid rise and fall of the European Super League.  This week the Premier League confirmed sanctions against the 6 clubs involved and also sought to build consensus to safeguard a similar future threat of a break away.   The speed, scale and shock of the ESL’s rise and fall may leave us wondering- did that really happen at all?  You’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bad dream, but the plans for 15 clubs from leagues across Europe to form an elite league shook the world of football.  Yet the scale of the story doesn’t match the debris underfoot. Yes, there is broken trust between owners and fans in particular, but sanctions that are fairly...