Plans for the hated European Super League revived - less than two years after furious football fans forced their clubs into abandoning them
Picture: AlamyHated plans to create a "European Super League" that would drastically reshape football have been revived in another form.
Football supporters were furious at the last attempt, which would have given its founder clubs permanent membership, which goes against the usual European format of allowing any team to get relegated to a lower league or promotion to another based on how well they do in a season. Clubs would drop out of the league and new ones added, though the details on that were not announced when the three remaining backers of a European Super League published their idea on Thursday.Whether it will get support from other European clubs remains to be seen. Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur had initially backed the last attempt at establishing a super league but backed out after a ferocious fan backlash.
English clubs have not commented on the idea. Fans hated it because they feared it would turn the Champions League from an elite competition reserved for the clubs that finish highest in their leagues and devalue domestic competitions like the Premier League.
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