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20 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read

Plans for a Super League announced by 12 of European football's most powerful clubs has plunged the game into an unprecedented crisis.

The UK government has threatened to invoke competition law to block a breakaway

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European Super League.

#AFPgraphics on the teams that have signed up to football's new controversial European Super League.

The absence of French and German teams from the founding members is notable

Football's richest clubs.

World's richest 20 football clubs based on revenue in 2019/2020 and those joining the breakaway European Super League

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FIFA chief set to respond to creation of the European Super League after the widely condemned breakaway competition triggers threats of legal action and punitive measures

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Formats of the future Champions League and the rival European Super League

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