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Ed Woodward had Government assurances over Super League plot after Downing St meeting

Ed Woodward had Government assurances over Super League plot after Downing St. meeting Mirror 6 hrs ago Freddie Keighley Manchester United chief Ed Woodward was informed the Government would not act to prevent the establishment of the European Super League (ESL) during a meeting last week. That s according to the Sunday Times, which reports Downing Street Chief of Staff Dan Rosenfield told Woodward this without consulting Prime Minister Boris Johnson. United Executive Vice-Chairman Woodward is known to have visited Downing Street only days before the announcement of the ill-fated and hugely unpopular ESL. No.10 has since insisted the breakaway competition was not brought up at the meeting, which they claim was merely to discuss the return of fans to stadiums and Covid certification.

The European Super League Fiasco proves that fan power still prevails over money power - New Delhi Times

April 25, 2021 Share The proposed European Super League (ESL) – a breakaway tournament meant to be contested with 20 European clubs annually (with 15 founding members)- collapsed in just 48 hours. The Super League was established on 18 April 2021 with 12 clubs – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspurs (England), Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid (Spain) and AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus (Italy) – as its original founding members. In the ESL, 20 teams were to be a part of competition. 2 groups of 10 teams would play home and away.  The top three teams at the end of the first round would automatically qualify for the quarter-finals. The fourth and fifth-place teams would then face each other in a play-off match for the two remaining places in the quarter-finals.

Super league: Labour demands answers over Ed Woodward s No10 meeting

United s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward was at No10 last Wednesday Meeting came just four days before plans for European super league revealed It s understood he was there for meeting with officials rather than Prime Minister But it has been reported Woodward was introduced to Mr Johnson afterwards  Boris Johnson came out strongly against Super League after it was announced Labour Party s Jo Stevens has called on the meeting minutes to be released The proposed league swiftly and spectacularly unravelled and Manchester United announced Mr Woodward would leave by the end of the year

Three days of madness: The short lifespan of the European Super League : The standard Sports

FOOTBALL A metal figure of a football player with a ball is seen in front of the words European Super League and the UEFA logo in this illustration taken April 20, 2021. [REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration] Less than 72 hours. That’s the amount of time top European club owners’ brainchild, the  European Super League took to almost manifest and fall apart. A competition meant to break the monotony of the Champions League, the Super League was not an idea that came to fruition in less than three days.     Plans to have another elite club competition have been around since the 1990s, but no single club was able to actualise this, considering the threat it posed to the original European Cup, which was rebranded to the 

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