英國首相的橫插一腳戳破了歐超美夢~
"Their weaker commitment to the project became a problem immediately on Sunday when the public immediately and loudly rejected the idea and national politicians seized on the issue. In a forceful appearance before Premier League representatives on Tuesday morning, the U.K.’s Johnson vowed to drop a “legislative bomb” on the effort that threatened to reclassify soccer clubs as protected institutions instead of regular businesses.
The Super League members had been prepared to stomach plenty of abuse—from fans, from rival clubs, from European soccer’s governing body, UEFA. They were even prepared for legal challenges. The project’s law firm, Clifford Chance, had filed a motion in a friendly Madrid court to head off UEFA’s threat to suspend the clubs from European competition. (Clifford Chance declined to comment.)
Except they never saw Johnson’s cameo coming, people familiar said."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/super-league-collapse-premier-league-11619104094?mod=hp_lead_pos13