Speak to a dozen people about the practical implications of Thursday’s Super League ruling and you get almost as many wildly differing answers. It is a unique situation where “what’s next?” is a question nobody can answer with insurmountable authority. All sides were inevitably primed to proclaim some degree of victory and, as the afternoon went on, the information war became at least as important as the decision itself.
That was understandable given the stakes. The original Super League plan failed in April 2021 because supporters of the six English clubs that jumped ship simply would not tolerate the idea. Giving any ground back had the potential to be costly so it was no surprise when, after the A22 chief executive officer, Bernd Reichart, presented its reworked proposal at midday, Uefa and its allies clicked into gear.
