6 Reasons Why the European Super League Will Fail

Author’s note: Welp, it already failed.

Liverpool played Leeds United on Monday afternoon and I could not care any less.

I’ve been a Liverpool fan for going on decade now since I got into English soccer and they became my team. Nothing annoyed me more than a weekday game that meant something while I was stuck in the office. On Monday, I was working from home for the millionth day in a row thanks to COVID and my calls ended at 3:30pm. I could’ve watched the entire second half.

But I didn’t watch a second. All because Liverpool was one of the 12 founding members of the disastrous European Super League.

For 24 hours, I was angry and upset. Why were they doing this? What was the point? Then I became sad and depressed. What I liked about European football — or at least, what I thought I did — had been ripped away.

Though my opinions matter far less than a true Liverpool supporter, they somehow mean even more in the scope of the European Super League because I’m the target for it. The new owners of these clubs believe the tried-and-true supporters will watch anything, so this is a money grab for my attention. I won’t give it to them.

My wife and I both dove headfirst into the Premier League when we moved to Washington, D.C. in 2011 because…