European Super League may have died a death but the cartel lives on
Now is the time to get vindictive - Points deductions, suspensions, expulsions, fines
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez claimed the Super League was being created to save soccer. File photograph: AP
Those of you with a taste for these things will have noted the irony: a competition designed to eliminate promotion and relegation in perpetuity somehow managed to shed half its teams in a single evening.
One by one the scions of the European Super League fell, like spurned pastry chefs in a televised baking competition: first the prize flans of Chelsea and Manchester City, then the rest of the English clubs late on Tuesday night, then Atlético Madrid and the two Milan clubs on Wednesday morning.