3 Hours ago Crystal Palace Chairman has written the below column for the Sunday Times, republished below in full. After three years of meticulous planning — or three days, depending on who is telling the story — Joan Laporta, the Barcelona president, spilt the beans over lunch to, of all people, the La Liga president, Javier Tebas, who said that what he heard amounted to “a Super League of PowerPoints — there is not enough television money in the world to match the figures they were talking about”. Tebas called everyone and anyone who mattered, including the Uefa president, Alexander Ceferin. The Super League news reached me last Sunday while on a run/stroll and a wry smile came over my face. I thought, ‘So, at last I will get to find out if it’s them or me that’s nuts, surely they wouldn’t be so stupid as to finally attempt to pull up the drawbridge and consign every other club to the perennial also-rans they believe us to be?’