European Super League 'like wolf in Little Red Riding Hood'

Plans for a European Super League led to protests extracurricular Premier League stadiums

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has criticised supporters of the European Super League and compared them to the wolf successful Little Red Riding Hood.

In December, Uefa and Fifa were backed by the European Courts of Justice successful their bid to artifact the instauration of a European Super League.

"It's a bully occupation cipher has ever died of shame," said Ceferin.

A last judgement is inactive to travel adjacent outpouring from the European Courts of Justice implicit a situation to Uefa's perceived monopoly position.

But the courts' advocator wide Athanasios Rantos said astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth that the rules of football's European and satellite governing bodies were "compatible with EU contention law".

The lawsuit was tabled by the European Super League and its supporters A22 Sports Management, who backed a 12-club connection successful 2021 that failed to materialise arsenic a effect of protests.

"Those who beforehand this task are present claiming that they privation to prevention football. In the abstraction of a fewer months, the Super League has turned into a quality successful Little Red Riding Hood: a wolf disguised arsenic a grandmother, acceptable to devour you up," Ceferin told the Uefa Congress successful Lisbon.

"But nobody's fooled. Because present we person 2 opposing satellite views.

"We person cynicism implicit morality. We person selfishness implicit solidarity. We person greed implicit benevolence. Self-absorption implicit openness to others. Self-interest implicit altruism. Shameful lies implicit the truth. Heirs implicit builders. Cartel implicit meritocracy and democracy. Stock prices implicit sporting merit. The quest for nett implicit the quest for trophies."

Premier League critics are 'jealous'

Ceferin besides defended the Premier League, which immoderate presumption arsenic being successful the vanguard of the aspects of the European Super League helium attacked.

"Jealousy sees everything but the truth," helium said.

"Since the British government, supporters and clubs said nary to the Super League, the Premier League has been demonised and labelled a Super League successful its ain close that needs to beryllium toppled.

"However, the Premier League's occurrence was not achieved by accident. By adopting an audacious attack based connected a vision, a strategy and a batch of hard work, its leaders and clubs developed a singular exemplary founded connected sporting merit, 1 of the astir egalitarian systems successful the world.

"Rather than a exemplary to beryllium destroyed, this is simply a exemplary that should beryllium followed."

'Understand mistakes and don't repetition them'

Ceferin did not specifically notation Uefa's wide criticised handling of past season's Champions League last successful Paris oregon its attempts to blasted fans for the problems successful the contiguous aftermath.

However, that surely seemed to beryllium what helium was referring to arsenic helium said helium accepted mistakes had been made.

Uefa announced successful March it was to refund Liverpool fans who had tickets for the match.

It followed an autarkic study that recovered Uefa bears superior responsibility for the chaotic scenes earlier the crippled against Real Madrid.

Fans were penned successful and sprayed with teardrop state extracurricular the Stade de France successful Paris arsenic kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes.

"No person tin boast an unblemished record," helium said.

"There are ever a fewer stains and mistakes that tarnish our estimation and errors they would emotion to erase.

"I americium nary antithetic and Uefa is nary different. The astir important happening is to recognize the mistake and alteration not to repetition them."

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