In the wake of this week’s Uefa/Fifa-G14 accord, Brian Phillips sat down with the two men responsible at, uh, a Red Lobster?
Find out what they had for dinner and how they crushed the G14.
Is the disbanding of the G14 a victory for anyone other than the self-serving elite of world football?
As we’ve noted in our historical series, the European Championship (originally European Nations’ Cup) started out on a small-scale in the 1960s: just four teams played in the finals, allowing an exciting knock-out tournament as qualifiers.
Now Uefa is considering expanding the Championship finals to take in 24 teams, greater than the number of teams […]
We wrote last week that all the machinations over a European Superleague, a rejigged Champions League and the proposed disbanding of the G-14 spoke of a grand compromise in the making between UEFA and the big clubs. Platini needed to keep the constituency that has supported him, the weaker nations, happy by including more of […]
Superleagues, ego, politics, diplomacy, money, money, money. The chess battle between UEFA and Europe’s biggest clubs continues to go on, but today, there was a strong indication the endgame is here.
The G-14, the now misnamed grouping of eighteen elite self-selected European clubs, seems likely to extinguish itself soon with a new organisation apparently to […]
