April 18, 2021 will live in infamy for football fans across Europe. On that day some of European football's most powerful clubs, as well as Arsenal and Tottenham, announced that they wished to form the European Super League (ESL).
A closed tournament which ensured the richest clubs would get richer sparked anger among football supporters and rightly so. It would become a stain which Man City would soon be desperate to get rid of as fans turned against the idea entirely.
Remarkably, the ESL was so bad that UEFA even became the good guys for a period. Just two days later the idea was dead in the water as first Chelsea and then City withdrew from the 'modern football project'. As one-by-one teams dropped out of the league UEFA's self-righteousness grew.
