> Honestly, springing this out of the blue on the fans and players both speaks of astonishing arrogance. Clearly this was not handled well, but Wikipedia does

> Honestly, springing this out of the blue on the fans and players both speaks of astonishing arrogance. Clearly this was not handled well, but Wikipedia does have a page of failed attempts going back to 1998. My guess would be that they thought pandemic financial losses would allow them to force this through. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_a_European_Super_League_in_association_football https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_a_European_Sup...