Daily: THE MURDER OF FOOTBALL – Inside the Superleague scandal

<p><strong>THIS PODCAST WAS RECORDED BEFORE CHELSEA AND MAN CITY LEFT THE COMPETITION</strong>: English football clubs triggered shockwaves of revulsion at the weekend when they announced their plans to join a €4bn breakaway ‘Super League’. Is the plan starting to crack, and can English football be saved? The man who broke the story, Chief Sports Reporter for <em>The Times </em><strong>Martyn Ziegler</strong>, tells Andrew Harrison how a greed-fuelled vanity project came about, why the owners are unwise to discount “legacy fans”, and if there’s anything fans can do to stop it.&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;</em></p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“This has gone beyond sabre rattling, this is civil war”</em></li><li><em>“These owners simply don’t care about the tradition and community that surrounds their football clubs”</em></li><li><em>“There is no doubt that the clubs have been taken aback by the reaction from fans, the media and even politicians”</em></li><li><em>“The Premier League’s success is built on the fact that Leicester can win the title, and ‘Super League’ clubs can have a bad season”</em></li><li><em>“In 30 years of reporting on sport I have never known the Government behave like this towards football”</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>