“The good guys have won.” When the Super League proposals collapsed within a few days, save for the spirited and doomed resistance of that noted insurgent Florentino Perez, this was the comment by one of the reporters on Sky. Sky, at that time, seemed to have been overcome with revolutionary zeal as well, and only the cynical might have noted that their desires – the protection of the Premier League as a viable product – was also satisfied by the destruction of the Super League. When the Manchester United supporters stormed Old Trafford at the beginning of May and forced…

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