Boy, that escalated quickly. A smidgen over 48 hours after the plan for a new European Super League featuring the world's most glitzy and gilded soccer clubs was announced, the whole endeavor collapsed under the weight of its own hubris.
Late on a dramatic Tuesday, the "Big Six" English teams — Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur — who had signed up as six of the 12 founding members of the ESL, had all announced they were pulling out of the project before a ball had been kicked.
The withdrawal of the English sextet had effectively kneecapped the tournament and left the remaining clubs, Spain's Real Madrid and Barcelona and the Italian trio of AC Milan, Internazionale and Juventus, stranded.
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