THEIR KNEES HAVE GONE ALL TREMBLY
Chelsea and Man City pull out of Super League after owners do the IMPOSSIBLE and unite players, coaches, royalty, celebs, God’s best mate and, er, actually the whole bloody world, against their greed..
THE European Super League is a laughing stock after Chelsea and Man City pulled out after doing the unthinkable and uniting the whole world against the Big 6. Man U may well follow. Well played, lads!
TRUE football fans including your Daily Star were celebrating last night after our voices forced English clubs to back down and withdraw from the hated European Super League.
The plans were said to be “dead in the water” as Chelsea and Manchester City were reportedly preparing to pull out.
It came just 48 hours after announcing they were two of six English clubs to sign up.
Chelsea’s apparent change of heart emerged after our front page yesterday and 1,000 fans gathered at Stamford Bridge to protest ahead of last night’s match against
Brighton.
As the news broke they chanted:
“We’ve got our Chelsea back.”
Ex-pro Pat Nevin said it would finish the league, leaving Manchester United, Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal with no choice but to pull out.
Spanish giants Atletico Madrid and Barcelona were also believed to be backing out.
Meanwhile, it was reported Ed Woodward, said to have played a key role in the ESL, had resigned as Man Utd executive vice-chairman. It is thought he will continue in his role with United until the end of 2021.
The clubs’ owners managed to unite virtually the rest of the world against their hated scheme. Ex-premier League ace Alan Shearer demanding they explain their actions – and asked where they were when managers and players, including Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and skipper James Milner were forced to face TV interviews.
Shearer said: “Where are these owners? Why don’t they come out and face the media?”
Former Man Utd star Gary Neville said club chiefs had “thrown players under the bus”.
And PM Boris Johnson said the Government should “drop a legislative bomb” to stop it.
The 14 Premier League clubs not participating said they were “considering all actions available” to stop it. And Everton blasted the “preposterous arrogance” of the clubs involved. jerry.lawton@dailystar.co.uk
THE deafening silence of football’s greedy “big six” owners before their climbdown spoke volumes.
This cabal of cowardly scavengers have plundered their clubs for years.
And, before they tried to make a quick few billion bucks by wrecking our national game, they didn’t even have the decency to come out and explain themselves.
But they massively underestimated the football community.
For years, the creeping malign influence of money has been damaging our game.
Yet by pressing the nuclear button and going so far over the line even VAR would spot it, they inadvertently galvanised the whole world against them. Enough is enough.
Their ludicrous money-grabbing plan to ruin competition and turn the world’s most popular sport into a Mickey Mouse Harlem Globetrotters-style farce was never going to be accepted.
And perhaps when all the dust has settled and these boardroom bloodsuckers have climbed back in their boxes, the game will be better for it.
Maybe last night was the moment fans finally began to get the once-beautiful game back.