Football Super League breakaway in ruins after English clubs quit

Inter Milan looks likely to be the next to leave as UEFA threatens to ban clubs and players who tried to create new league.

European football’s breakaway Super League has been in tatters since the six English Premier League clubs involved in the project quit 48 hours after agreeing to join Italian and Spanish teams in the controversial elite competition. After a storm of protests from fans, players, managers and governments, alongside threats of bans and sanctions from the game’s European and world governing bodies UEFA and FIFA, the English clubs threw in the towel on Tuesday. Manchester City were the first to back out of the venture and then Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea announced they were following suit.