In the history of stupid ideas, the European Super League was on a par with Fleetwood and Fox at the Brits or the Poll Tax. The slippery, gold-laden toads who undertook clandestine meetings over the previous year will, now it is shelved, revert to plan B, as they pencil out another assault on the game many of us loved but are now growing weary of.
Now it is rare, with any idea, for there to be universal condemnation. But with this initiative there wasn’t a solitary supportive voice. So quiet have the originators of the idea been, that within a day of the news going live, civil warfare broke out intra club as the buck was passed for signing their entities up to this folly.