The European Super League blew a fuse amongst a lot of supporters, which I personally found quite bewildering as many supporters are quite straightforwardly ruthless when it comes to rivalry and wanting their team to be as successful as possible.
I’d also question how representative of the fanbase the fans that broke into Old Trafford and nearly blinded a policeman (image above) were of the club as a whole? Lots of noise was made by supporter’s clubs, but these groups only ever represent a fraction of the global fanbase of the club.
We also had lads outside the Tottenham stadium throwing beer and singing songs about holding a party after Daniel Levy’s death, who were they representing? It wasn’t me.
For all the recent blustering outrage, football changed in 1992 and these days it is all about making money. Just ask Levy, he actually demolished White Hart Lane in order to make more money.
It now emerges that the ‘through gritted teeth’ apologies fans got from clubs after the ESL scheme was announced were merely that, and that the infrastructure behind the plan remains intact. According to Voz Populi the project is merely on hold.
The US investment bank JP Morgan signed a loan of up to €4,000 million euros on April 17th. That was the funding in place.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has yet to decide the legitimacy of UEFA’s desire to rid the world of the ESL, and until then, JP Morgan’s money is said to remain in situ.
So at this moment, all that has happened is that some thugs have encouraged some clubs to publicly admit that they made a mistake.
I take a view that this proposition will return, and it would be naive to believe otherwise.
