The European Super League's "hasty and biased" reading of Thursday’s landmark ruling by the Court of Justice has emboldened EU sports ministers to meet in the new year and begin steps to articulate and protect a European model of sport, where pursuits like football would be viewed as having distinctive cultural values.
A fresh attempt to create a European Super League has come amid long-term gaps between EU law and the actual working of sport. The number of cases ruled upon by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Thursday was actually in part an attempt to unify evolving theories over how sport can fit into competition law and freedom of movement.
