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  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    Sport
    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
    FT MagazineLeo Lewis
    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
    Murad Ahmed
    Year in a word: Super League

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

  • Saturday, 30 October, 2021
    Scoreboard
    Why IPL cricket teams are worth more than Premier League clubs Premium content

    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
    Football
    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
    Manchester United PLC
    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
    Scoreboard
    Scoreboard: The rise and fall of the Super League Premium content

    The best 10 stories to read on a week of high drama in European football

  • Saturday, 24 April, 2021
    Payne's Politics podcast25 min listen
    '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
    News in-depth
    Florentino Pérez: Spain’s football king faces his greatest challenge

    Super League mastermind suffers rare humiliation as clubs abandon competition

  • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
    Philip Stephens
    JPMorgan Chase has scored a Super League own goal

    The failed plan to reorganise Europe’s most popular sport spoke to the arrogance of anything-goes globalisation

  • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
    Super League plan collapses as more clubs pull out

    Inter Milan and Atlético Madrid join English football sides in quitting breakaway competition

  • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
    Clubs signed up to punitive exit clauses for Super League

    Agreements would have left top clubs with hefty liabilities if they had quit once competition started

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