Florentino Perez promised entertainment and the European Super League provided it, cramming grotesque ambition and, ultimately, meek surrender into its 48-hour existence. "A manager makes a three-year plan but he can have a difference of several hundred million euros depending on his results," Anas Laghari, the Madrid banker appointed general secretary of the Super League, told Le Parisien. Porto versus Juventus in the previous round of the Champions League might have been even more thrilling, featuring as it did some extra-time drama as the 10-man Portuguese underdogs progressed. The delicious irony here is that only one of these four teams signed up for the Super League. In a podcast special, Jasper Taylor is joined by Gerard Brand and Ron Walker to discuss the rapid break-up of the breakaway European Super League.

Source: Sky sports April 21, 2021 10:18 UTC