The time for compromise is over. We must wrest football back from the coterie of billionaires who have deformed it
It is a measure of football’s remarkable cultural weight that the plot to create a breakaway European Super League (ESL) has dominated the media since it was announced late on Sunday night – and provoked a furious response not simply from every corner of the football world, but from 10 Downing Street and the Élysée Palace.
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