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    • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
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      Will the sports bubble burst in 2023? Premium content

      Plus, our year-end highlights, World Cup reflections, and more.

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      New European Super League boss eyes relaunch with different format

      Contentious breakaway football competition pledges to consider all options after collapse of original project

    • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
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      Why the fight over the European Super League isn’t over Premium content

      Plus, the competition probe rocking sports broadcasters, antitrust authorities home in on golf, and more.

    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
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      English football to have independent regulator by next election, pledges Dorries

      Plan for tighter supervision puts government on collision course with governing bodies

    • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
      Top football executives attack plans to revive European Super League

      Juventus chief Andrea Agnelli insists game is ‘in dire straits and in need of deep and profound reforms’

    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
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      Football’s future is in the metaverse

      Virtual stadiums will kick off a new debate over the sport’s ‘real’ fans

    • Saturday, 1 January, 2022
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      Year in a word: Super League

      A cabal of über-rich football club owners did not properly assess the opposition

    • Saturday, 30 October, 2021
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      Plus, digging into the Super League’s legal case against Uefa, and more.

    • Sunday, 24 October, 2021
      Super League clubs accuse Uefa and Fifa of breaking EU competition rules

      Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus take legal action to overthrow ‘monopoly’

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
      Uefa ends efforts to punish breakaway European Super League teams

      Action halted as three holdout rebel clubs push ahead with legal case to shake up game

    • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
      Football
      Premier League six to pay £22m over breakaway Super League

      English clubs make ‘goodwill gesture’ and agree to rule changes

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Manchester United PLC
      Glazers agree scheme to allow fans to buy Manchester United shares

      Concession comes after latest wave of protests against botched European Super League plan

    • Thursday, 27 May, 2021
      La Liga chief warns Super League isn’t dead

      Javier Tebas hits out at Fifa over breakaway competition and says Champions League will survive

    • Friday, 14 May, 2021
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      Barnsley’s dream team give football club sporting chance

      Promotion bid shows US ownership can be good thing for the beautiful game in England

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      Football
      Top shareholder criticises Manchester Utd and Juventus over Super League

      UK fund manager Lindsell Train expresses disappointment at reputational damage to teams from breakaway bid

    • Saturday, 8 May, 2021
      Uefa agrees peace deal with most rebel Super League clubs

      Nine teams agree ‘reintegration measures’ but Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus remain holdouts

    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      English football’s ‘Big 6’ face inquiry over Super League breakaway

      FA demands all relevant information on failed project as Premier League chiefs warn of ‘significant sanctions’

    • Sunday, 2 May, 2021
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      Manchester Utd fans protest against Glazers after Super League collapse

      Match against Liverpool called off after Old Trafford pitch demonstration against US owners

    • Saturday, 24 April, 2021
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      The best 10 stories to read on a week of high drama in European football

    • Saturday, 24 April, 2021
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      'Favours for chums', and the football debacle

      Claims of cronyism reach Boris Johnson. Plus, the fallout from the European Super League plan

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      The Big Read
      ‘It was utter chaos’: the inside story of football’s Super League own goal

      Twelve of Europe’s top clubs planned to shake up the sport. Instead, the project collapsed spectacularly in just 48 hours

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      JPMorgan apologises for backing breakaway football Super League

      US bank’s underwriting of €3.25bn in funding had been instrumental in creating competition that collapsed this week

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      Due Diligence
      The power brokers and advisers behind the doomed Super League  Premium content

      Florentino Pérez is the famous frontman of the failed competition but a duo of trusted advisers have been helping behind the scenes

    • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
      Barcelona defends Super League and seeks review of tournament plan

      Spanish league urges rebel clubs to bring spending in line with reality in wake of breakaway project’s collapse

    • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
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      Florentino Pérez: Spain’s football king faces his greatest challenge

      Super League mastermind suffers rare humiliation as clubs abandon competition

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