The Super League is a War waged by billionaire club owners for the sake of greed

There can be no doubt the footballing world was rocked and shocked on Sunday night when it was revealed that a new Super League would be formed, involving twelve European clubs including six major English clubs.

Many across the footballing world are sickened and frustrated, seeing the traditions and values of football, dismantled and dumped by club owners, adamant about lining their pockets with further profit. I will not bore you with the facts and statistics, because they have already been established. I want to convey the raw sadness on behalf of fans at the disgrace placed on football this week, and how this exposes a deepening reality of materialism and greed by the owners of our football clubs.

Any true football fan will testify to the great importance of open competition and the values of the traditional leagues. The solidarity and togetherness of football are what has made this sport one of the greatest, attracting millions of fans and views. It is therefore repulsive to consider that a group of ‘mafia’ club owners have conspired to destroy those very principles, all to advance monetary gain. No consideration has been made about the fans or the communities to which these clubs belong.

Few deny the greatness that was brought through commercialising the sport, but few will accept the lack of decency and compassion these billionaire owners have employed, simply to stuff more cash in their pockets. The once working-class sport, founded and built by everyday working men and women has been stolen by rich and powerful businessmen, completely ignorant of the history, rivalry and passion in the sport loved and cherished up and down the country. Instead of being honourable custodians of the sport, they have entitled themselves to conspire in shredding it until it moulds into their vision, lacking any consideration for its fundamental pillars.

We must understand, this is a ‘Nuclear war’ on football itself. An attempt to turn these clubs into international brands and commodities, propelled by the billions of banks, detached from the communities that are at the heart of these clubs, and its supports who have loved them all their lives. If we are to save the sport we love, we must wake up and mobilise to confront this defining challenge.

Football is not simply about entertainment, it’s about livelihoods, communities, solidarity and compassion. It’s what brings people of all backgrounds together, united with one universal goal and ambition. It’s what stirs passion, energy and enthusiasm. If anything should be considered a pillar of British culture, it’s football. Do you want your club, the club you love, the club you have supported your entire life, the club that has so much history; to be turned into a playball of the rich, nothing but a commodity used by your Abramovich’s, Skeikh Mansour’s and Kroenke’s of this world, as a financial puppet. I most certainly could not stand for that, and neither should you.

It time everyone, both those in the institutions of these clubs and us, the outsiders and spectators; take a stand against this.

If UEFA is truly to take the position they are threatening, banning players in those clubs from playing internationally and banning those clubs from competing in other tournaments, it would be detrimental to players. Imagine being Phil Foden, or Mason Greenwood; great potential future stars. Players that may one day captain their team to a World Cup or compete for the Ballandore. Are we saying these players would sit idly by as their dreams and aspirations are thrown away, to play for a shoddy closed shop league? I simply refuse to believe that. They have the power to create change, and we do too.