How the European Super League Fell Apart - A Timeline

for the next few days the athletic is just one pound per month for six months see the link in the description to sign up now at one minute past one on the afternoon of sunday the 18th of april martin ziegler of the times broke the story that 12 european clubs were set to break away from uefa and form a super league and it began a news cycle that modern football had never seen before [Music] that same day at 4 22 pm uefa released a preemptive statement in conjunction with the english fa the premier league the italian and spanish football federations serie a and la liga condemning the move the rumors then reached gary neville commentating on manchester united against burnley who described the plans as pure greed and at full time with rumours starting to crystallize he branded his old club disgusting and demanded points deductions for all teams involved and by 5 24 pm the british government was involved culture secretary oliver dowden released a statement in opposition and hours later prime minister boris johnson followed on twitter but at 11 pm that night the super league arrived with press releases from all of the participating clubs being released online in the minutes afterwards juventus president andre agnelli resigned his positions from the uefa's executive committee and as chairman of the european club association and europe went to bed in chaos but it would wake up to supporter protests around the world with banners hung on stadium gates and graffiti denouncing the greed at 8 30 a.m it was reported that the super league had filed pre-emptive court motions to protect players from fifa or uefa bans it also claimed to have in excess of 4 billion euros in funding and at 8 42 a.m reuters revealed the source of that funding jp morgan the u.s investment bank by lunchtime players were breaking ranks under herrera tweeted his opposition mesut ozil followed and luis figa referred to the super league as self-interested and tragic 2 pm uefa president alexander seferin is furious we didn't know we had snakes so close to us he said referring to ed woodward and andre agnelli 402 pm oliver dowden promises a full-scale review into the conduct of the six english clubs and at 6 19 pm royalty got involved prince william didn't like the super league either later that evening leeds united draw with liverpool with patrick bamford james milner and jurgen klopp all adding their condemnation in interviews afterwards over in spain florentino perez broke his silence to appear on spanish television saying that the super league was going to save football at 10 20 a.m on tuesday morning alexander suffering got word that some clubs were wavering gentlemen you made a huge mistake he says at uefa's congress there is still time to change your mind 11am the 14 premier league clubs left out convened for an emergency meeting chief executive richard masters had already met with boris johnson that morning with the prime minister threatening to drop a legislative bomb if necessary in italy torino president obano cairo reportedly heckles andrea angeli with shouts of traitor during a serie a zoom call 12 16 pm it looks like seferin was right matt lawton of the times reports that one english club is pulling out and the players are becoming militant at 2pm jordan henderson called a meeting between the premier league captains and then at 4 pm amazon piled on with a statement they wouldn't be the broadcaster and pep guardiola doesn't like it either it's not football if you cannot lose he said later still the chelsea bus arrives at stamford bridge for a game against brighton but hundreds of fans block its entrance petr cech is sent out to calm the crowd but at 6 45 pm the bbc's dan rowan reports that chelsea are withdrawing and by 9 pm the players have made up their mind we don't like it and we don't want it to happen tweets jordan henderson and at exactly the same time tribus watchmakers withdraw as liverpool's official timing partner further still at 9 20 pm manchester united announced that their executive vice chairman ed woodward was resigning after 16 years and at 9 23 pm the clubs started to fall manchester city announced that they were out with a sentence-long statement at 10 55 pm manchester united arsenal and liverpool announced their departures simultaneously and at 10 57 pm tottenham decided that they were out too it was over and andrea agnelli knew it on wednesday morning at 10 23 a.m he told the gazeta de la sport that it was impossible to continue with just six teams and half an hour later it would be five atletico madrid were out at 10 55 am inter made it four ten minutes later before city rivals ac left at 12 24 pm juventus were gone before half too thursday morning it was just barcelona and real madrid left great clubs acting like gangsters tweeted gary neville on thursday a few hours after martin ziegler had broken another exclusive that the premier league was introducing new laws that meant that any breakaway attempted 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Published: Fri Apr 23 2021