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  • The 'European Super League' Debacle: Why Regulation of Corporate Football is Essential

    Author(s):
    John Welsh (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    Economics, Soccer, Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964, Historical sociology, F.A. Premier League, Dialectic, Markets--Social aspects, Monopolies, Saving and investment
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Monopoly Capital, Accumulation, Political Economy, football, Soccer, Premier league, England, Polanyi, sociology, market society
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/tjn4-mp79
    Abstract:
    On 18 April 2021, 12 European football clubs collectively issued a letter of intent to form a new European Super League. This attempted coup was strongly opposed across English football. Afterwards, the responsible owner-oligarchs were singled out for special criticism from pundits and supporter organizations alike. What emerged was a focus upon the personal greed and social indifference of those individuals, but what was less forthcoming in the days following was an analysis capable of putting the ‘greed thesis’ into a more effective social, economic, and even historical context. This article strives for a more sociological understanding of the April 18th coup, to understand better the broader social developments in the political economy of English football from which the coup has come into being. This article calls for regulatory reform of professional football in England, to show why such reform is not merely more plausible now but more necessary
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1080/14660970.2022.2054805
    Publisher:
    Taylor & Francis
    Pub. Date:
    22/06/2022
    Journal:
    Soccer & Society
    Page Range:
    1 - 19
    ISSN:
    1466-0970
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    9 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

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