European Super League: Ministers say they will work to block breakaway groupon April 20, 2021 at 12:31 am

The PM says the government will work to make sure the competition does not go ahead as proposed.

David Bernstein, a former Manchester City and FA chairman, said: “The club that I’ve supported since the 1950s and had the privilege of being chairman, at a time when they were in the First Division, is part of a grouping to sort of split football in this way, and destroy the pyramid of football that’s so important to this country – I find, to put it mildly, very, very disappointing.”