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That was the league that wasn’t
Defeat of the European Super League project is welcome, but redeeming football will take imagination,
suggests Paul Demarty
On the face of it, the recent tumult in European football is seasonally appropriate. The sport was murdered, then, three days later, rose again from the dead.
How long the deed had been planned we do not yet know, but we can guess. The idea of a breakaway league of the premier European clubs has been discreetly floated for years - normally when Uefa (the Union of European Football Associations) is considering the structure of the Champions League and associated financial rewards. More concrete ideas started to leak out a year ago, including one detail - the involvement of the JPMorgan Chase company on the finance side - which certainly came true two weeks ago.
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Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and Liverpool chairman Tom Werner have stepped down from the club broadcast advisory group, while Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has left the audit and remuneration committee.
Arsenal chief executive Vinai Venkatesham and his Manchester City counterpart Ferran Soriano have both resigned from the club strategic advisory group.
The moves came to light just 11 days after these clubs, and Tottenham, declared on April 18 they would be joining a new Super League competition, which faced scorn before it was formally announced after news leaked out in the preceding hours.
It provoked fury, with the closed-shop element of the proposed new competition set to see six of the Premier League s biggest clubs guaranteed riches far beyond those available to their domestic rivals.
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Carabao Cup - Semi Final Second Leg - Manchester City v Manchester United - Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Britain - January 29, 2020 Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward in the stands before the match REUTERS/Phil Noble
(Reuters) - Executives from five of the six English clubs involved in the controversial breakaway European Super League have resigned from their posts on various Premier League committees, Sky Sports reported on Thursday.
Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, Manchester United executive vice chairman Ed Woodward, Liverpool chairman Tom Werner, Arsenal chief executive Vinai Venkatesham and Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano have stepped down from their roles.