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Henry Winter

18 Apr, 3 tweets, 2 min read

This #ESL is shameless, ensuring these greedy Founding Clubs never miss out. This is a sham of a sporting competition and should be resisted by all who care about football. Fans will fight this. Players must fight this. Sponsors should be embarrassed to be associated with this.

#ESL Founding Clubs are AC Milan, Arsenal, Atlético Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Spurs. Owners effectively telling their clubs’ match-going fans they don’t matter. It’s all about global viewers.

“We will help football at every level,” Florentino Pérez, Real Madrid president & 1st #ESL chairman. No you won’t. You’ve run out of training grounds to sell. It’s all about greed. Real are a great historic club and, like the other Founding Clubs, should not be stooping this low.

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Some good in the MUFC/LFC/Parry plan (£250m to EFL, £100m to FA) but let’s be quite clear: it’s a blatant power grab, allows the big 6 to run English football and will lead to a European Super League.

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David Dein invited 9 of us correspondents into Highbury board-room to meet #Wenger in 96. Arsene spoke for 50 mins, and we were spellbound by his attacking philosophy, belief in nutrition (broccoli!) & obsession with #afc as a community club. A visionary had arrived. 1/10

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