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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

European Super League: zombie entity creeps back into football’s new landscape

Illustration of a zombie with a Super League T-shirt buying a ticket at a turnstile
‘The ESL may still be a zombie entity, but it is no longer dropping half-baked plans. The ESL has got smart.’ Illustration: Nathan Daniels/The Guardian

It lives. It breathes. It walks the earth again, out there scratching at the doorjamb, rattling the handle, gripped by a renewed and surprisingly self-righteous (fan engagement? Sustainability? Uh, really?) kind of life.

The European Super League never really died of course. Instead it simply collapsed under the weight of its own billionaire-grade stupidity, offering up an initial power-grab so poorly conceived it failed even to satisfy the three elements in its own name.

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