FILE PHOTO: Metal figures of football players are seen in front of the words "European Super League" and the UEFA Champions League logo in this illustration taken April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
LONDON (Reuters) - Plans for a Super League of Europe's top soccer clubs, which was drawn up in secrecy over several months, stunned fans, players and politicians when news about it broke on Sunday. Yet by Wednesday, the new league's last rites were already being read.
The intervening hours were filled with a cacophony of criticism stretching from the stands to the pitches, and from the dressing rooms right up to the corridors of political power.
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