The collapse of the attempt to form a ‘super league’ of top European
soccer teams by the billionaire owners of the big clubs is only an
interrupted chapter in the story of the commodification of sport into
profitable capitalist enterprises, owned and controlled by capital. It
is no accident thatJP Morgan was the fund manager
<https://www.ft.com/content/c725dc42-6fd1-4bfa-82fc-6d2ed899990b>for the
Super League plan – as the bank epitomises the role of global capital in
controlling modern sport. And it is no accident that the main driver
for the new league was the president of Real Madrid, a football club
dominated in the past by the corrupt Spanish monarchy and Francoism, the
fascist wing of Spanish capital. Real is a membership controlled club,
unlike most top clubs, but only the very rich can become president and
lives off branding, jus lik h ohers. And i has massiv dbs.
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/04/22/football-a-peoples-sport/
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