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UEFA court defeat revives battle with breakaway Super League

By AFP The promoters of Super League announced plans for a new breakaway competition on Thursday after the EU’s top court ruled that UEFA had used illegal tactics to stifle the project. The European Court of Justice ruling did not constitute an endorsement of the Super League idea, which still faces furious opposition from many football fans and from Europe’s existing national leagues. But it marks a serious legal setback for UEFA and for soccer’s world governing body FIFA, finding that their tactic of threatening to ban future Super League clubs and players from taking part in their competitions broke EU law. And it was seized upon by the promoters of the Super League project, A22 Sports Management, to promote […]

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