The European Super League proposal was announced on Sunday, 18 April 2021. The plan was made public late at night and it was fitting that it was revealed under the cover of darkness. The elite were making a brazen assault on football.
Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool; Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham; Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid; Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan had all agreed to join the closed shop league. The news was surreal for ordinary Mancunians getting up for work on that Monday morning. United fans felt betrayed and they weren't going to allow their club to be taken away from them.
The backlash to the proposal was unprecedented. Each founding club's owners — who had perhaps underestimated fan power through naivety or arrogance — had grossly miscalculated. They had committed a sin that they would never be forgiven for.
