How the Premier League & Champions League were born

Try The Athletic for FREE for 30 days: https://theathletic.com/tifofootball 📗 Tifo's new book, "How to Watch Football" is now available internationally: https://linktr.ee/tifobook Shocked that his team might not make it past the first round of the UEFA European Cup in 1986, AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi set in motion plans for a European Super League. And unlike in 2021, plans were agreed and the Champions League was born. The crucial shift to the modern world, the prioritisation of content over jeopardy, of revenue-generation over sporting merit, had been accepted. This is the nineteenth