"National sporting success has failed to boost the economy in the past, but this time might be different"

"Last week, Europeans showed the red card to the moguls – and their financiers – who tried to form a Super League of the continent's top 15 football clubs. Now that Europeans discovered their moral Rubicon, the time may have come for a _...Read More_

"Our lives are increasingly governed by ‘free’ markets that turn out to be rigged."

The European Super League would be a disaster for football, but it hasn't come from nowhere – it is the end of a long road of commercialisation which has torn the game away from the working-class communities that built it.

>"Premier League clubs should not be allowed to show betting firms on their shirts, according to a House of Lords Select Committee report."