The Super League was a league that would be established by all of the richest football clubs across Europe. These would include clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester United and Manchester City. These were all of the English clubs that announced their support and said they would join the Super League. Additionally, international powerhouses such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, as well as a fellow club from Madrid, Atletico, all said they would join the Super League. Both clubs from Milan in Italy promised their participation in the League, as well as one of the most well-known clubs in the world, located in Turin, being Juventus. First off, this would completely change the way all European football operates, as most top flight leagues would fall apart after losing their top teams in the country. Additionally this would end the Champions League, as all the teams that would join the Super League, are normally all the teams that would have Champions League places. This idea originated in 1987, Real Madrid and Milan, as well as a smaller club in Scotland known as the Glasgow Rangers, who is one of the two most famous Scottish clubs, but is much less notable in comparison to Madrid and Milan, introduced the idea of a league competition with single-round league play, similar to that of other top flight leagues across Europe. This was trademarked by European mass media as the “Super League.” It was planned that this league would run in parallel to the three European Football Competitions at the time, however they decided to abandon the idea in 1991. Around this time, the idea of this league was replaced, and the Champions League was created satisfying the need of all football fans who wanted to see the highest level of competition between Europe’s top clubs on the world stage. Overall, it is better for the footballing world as a whole, especially in Europe, that the European Super League was not created a few years ago, as it would make money the only truly important thing in football. Well, even more so than money is now, as all other European leagues would fall apart as the players go where the money is, which would be the Super League. Additionally no teams can ever get relegated or be promoted into the league, keeping all the rich clubs, giving us little to no variety in football. It would destroy all tradition in football, there would be no Merseyside Derby (Liverpool vs Everton), where there is a deep rivalry between a smaller club like Everton and an international powerhouse like Liverpool. It would also destroy the culture of traveling supporters, there would be few fans that would make a trip from London to Turin, or some other similar length of travel every other weekend. It would also just completely disband some aspects of culture in some countries, as football is so deeply rooted in everyday life in many European countries. It would destroy European football, and would more than likely cause the smaller clubs in Europe to just fall apart, as best said by Jeremy Smith, or Leslie Higgins as he is portrayed in popular football show Ted Lasso, “Not only would David never face Goliath, the Davids would cease to exist.
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