SPORTING SCANDAL
Kicking Off: The Rise And Fall Of The Super League, 9.30pm, BBC2
FANS, the media, players and even the government were united in their fury at the announcement last year of a football Super League for Europe’s biggest clubs. Many saw it as a cynical plan to line the pockets of its already super-rich members. This is the story of that grand folly and the explosive fallout that soon sank the Super League.