After 48 hours of furious backlash from fans, players, television companies and even world leaders, the proposed competition of elite European clubs is no more.
Boy, that escalated quickly. A smidgen over 48 hours after the plan for a new European Super League featuring the world's most glitzy and gilded soccer clubs was announced, the whole endeavor collapsed under the weight of its own hubris.
Within hours, the nascent organization behind the ESL was scrambling to spin the epic collapse as more of a retooling,with typos in Times New Roman on what looked like a screenshot of a Microsoft Word doc that added the farcical nature of its demise.
The key drivers behind the ESL, at least among the coterie of English clubs, has been Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United, all clubs with American owners who also hold significant stakes in storied American sports franchises. According to press reports, Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, who also owns the Los Angeles Rams and the Denver Nuggets, Liverpool's principal owner John W.
On Monday, scandal-plagued British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron saw a cynical opportunity to distract from domestic political problems and heaped on more pressure, with the U.K. government dangling the prospect of a windfall tax on the six English clubs in the ESL, as well as changing visa rules to stop them playing in the competition.
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