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In April 2021 twelve of the biggest richest, most well-known clubs who play in the leagues of England, Spain and Italy made a joint announcement that they had come together to form a break-away league. There was a lot of sound business intel behind this. Much thought had gone into it. They planned to set up the greatest league of any sport in the world by combining some of the biggest players in the biggest game there is. Their idea was not all bad. It lacked a few crucial elements and it received a massive back-lash of irate fans, especially after the national football associations of the three countries and UEFA began to say that these clubs and all players who play for them will be banned from taking part in any of the cups that these governing bodies stage. This total war-footing confrontational response was the result of UEFA and the national football associations calculating that they will lose out big time from this chance, with their major competitions under the threat of suddenly becoming minor happenings in the backwater. This threat was also including the loss of control over what happened next and over what rule changes the super league teams allow themselves to make as they no longer come under any of the main national or international rule-setting and rule-enforcement jurisdictions once they are playing in the breakaway super league. Much like when rugby split up to become two sports, football was fast heading in the same fateful direction.As events rapidly unfolded during the course of April (when this was written) and May 2021, the super league idea quickly ran out of steam and died a horrible death, under emotionally charged hostile fire from all sides. This was to be expected in a world where people guard their passions and their long-established systems of opponent allocation and of play timetabling with a deep and thorough grip of all-pervasive hatred of nearly all change, even while not thinking this of itself.There were some very bad elements o