![]() ![]() That was “something simple for the 21st century, bypassing the 20th”. ![]() The breakaway clubs had the crucial advantage of “working off a blank sheet of paper”, leaving them able to try something different. It was really the frustration with a football culture that produced games, well, so unglamorous. Most recently, La Liga’s big two made it too top heavy, causing it to topple over from their bloated sizes. Serie A’s great era collapsed with its crumbling infrastructure, that decay symbolising a culture of corruption that culminated in Calciopoli. The dominant league erasĮngland’s first era of true dominance, between 19, was destroyed by hooliganism and a European ban after Heysel that saw its clubs miss tactical and technological evolution elsewhere. The history of European football has been leagues rising and falling like great American families, so what could actually cause the Premier League to fall? Is that even possible? Is its dominance unassailable? Is this the future, stamped on our screens, the true Super League in everything but name?Ĭentral to that question is how previous leagues fell and how the Premier League rose in the first place. That does raise another question, one that many senior continental executives would relish. Really, the Premier League is threatening to hollow out European football in the way European football hollowed out South America three decades ago, quickly absorbing everything of worth elsewhere. Since 2018-19, the worry every season has been whether it will be yet another all-English European final. ![]() That hasn’t yet translated into the greatest return of European trophies, as with Serie A’s height, but that’s an inevitability. It has by far the biggest income, which comes from by far the biggest audiences. ![]()
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