Reaction to controversial plans for European Super League
Premier League's 'big six' agree to join the breakaway league
Jose Mourinho sacked as Tottenham manager
Mourinho was at Spurs for just 17 months
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Chris: Interesting timing by Daniel Levy. Maybe he thinks this will take some of the heat off about the Super League.
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Baliaaaa: Jose will get another big club sooner or later.
Aman: Mourinho is finished. His character doesn't work anymore, irrespective of the players' attitudes.
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Jose Mourinho has been sacked by Tottenham after just 17 months in charge.
The Portuguese replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs manager in November 2019 and guided the club to sixth in the Premier League last season.
They are currently seventh, having picked up two points from their past three league games, and were knocked out of the Europa League in March.
Spurs face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday.
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Matt: As a Tottenham fan already disillusioned with the anti-football and general negative aura the club has under Mourinho now, the super league has me seriously considering whether I want to follow the club, or even football as a whole any more.
Image source, ReutersLaura McAllister could soon be one of the most influential women in world football. On Tuesday, the former Wales captain stands for election to be Uefa's female representative on the Fifa Council, the sport's ultimate decision-making body.
McAllister, a footballer turned professor of politics and sports governance, is aiming to become the first Welsh person to be elected to the Fifa Council - and the first woman from any UK nation to sit at football's top table.
And she said earlier that football needs “solidarity now not greed” as the world aims to recover following the coronavirus pandemic.
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Finally from today's papers, both the i and the Metro describe the tension over a proposed European Super League as "civil war".
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Matt Fuery: As a lifelong Blackburn fan in the early 90s I have seen my club rise to the heights of Premier League glory and fall to the lows of League 1, no fan base realistically can claim to have suffered such highs followed by such lows, the European Super League will ruin my dream of seeing my club rise like a Phoenix from the ashes, how dare these clubs feel so arrogant to take that dream from me and from my son’s future, however unlikely that dream is. The same could be said for Man City fans 15 years ago but now they plan to take that dream from others because they’ve managed to get their hands on a bit of cash and don’t want to share? Give over.
Image source, Getty ImagesIn this clip from MOTD2, presenter Mark Chapman says how there is currently a banner at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium featuring a quote from Matt Busby, manager of the team at the time of the Munich air disaster in 1958, who then led United to their first European Cup triumph in 1968.
It reads: "Football is nothing without fans".
Dion Dublin & Danny Murphy discuss the plans for a European Super League
The Munich air disaster, which killed 23 people including eight members of the Manchester United team and three members of staff, occurred as the team known as the 'Busby Babes' was returning from a European Cup game against Red Star Belgrade.
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The war theme in today's papers has been continued by the Mail...
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True fans need to unsubscribe. Honourable footballers need to let their contracts run down reducing the clubs' value. But watch what happens now. Huge amount to be spent on PR including recruiting mouthpieces. Also, it’ll be repackaged to imply some compromise and sold as a benefit to all football. It’s like the supermarket chain everyone complains about taking over the independent shop on the high street but where everyone shops when it’s built, barely remembering what was there before. Bye bye football.
Reza M, Arsenal fan
The Daily Express
The Daily Express reports on former Manchester United captain Gary Neville calling the European Super League plan a "criminal act".
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BBC Radio 4
Aston Villa chief executive Christian Purslow says the proposed Super League is a "grotesque concept".
Speaking to BBC Radio Four, he said: "These proposals do away with sporting merit. It would enable a small number of clubs to be in this competition come what may and, for millions of people in football, that goes against everything the sport means and stands for.
"The idea is that the uncertainty that comes with sport, that makes it so compelling, that we all love, is actually damaging to the business model of these huge clubs.
"So the scheme is designed to take away that uncertainty, to give predictability to their businesses so that, if they're badly managed or have a poor year, they're still in the premier tournament. Does that sound like sport or football to you? To me it sounds a grotesque concept."
Image source, Getty ImagesSpeaking earlier, former Football Association and Manchester City chairman David Bernstein said that he feels the plan for a European Super League "is a very bad thing for football indeed".
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What do non-UK fans think, do we know? Here it's all about history, tradition, it's our club. No, it's not, it's a business and all businesses maximise their returns. Bunch of Luddites if you ask me.
Ant, Bham
