European Super League

In the middle ages, bored kings and despot rulers pitted their armies against each other in pitched battles to stave off the soulless futility of their affluent lives.

Nowadays, titans of industry and princes of oil rich countries buy football clubs to add meaning to their dry decadent lives, and girth to their wallets.

In a week that rivalled Janet Jackson's tit-slip in terms of sheer PR ineptitude, people worldwide came to the same realisation: football is governed by greed.

If you had started to think we have come a long way since the days of battlefield slaughter, spare a thought for the 6500 workers who died in Qatar creating Fifa's monuments to corruption.

As the cavalry rally in an attempt to overthrow the 12 clubs in their high castles, let them not stop with the heads of the house Glazer, Perez and Mansour. There is a reason such power sits in the laps of such few.

Alexander Ceferin can maybe explain why financial fair play and the break even regulations brought in in 2011 have not imposed a meaningful sanction on any of Europe's free spending rulers. Why they failed to ban Manchester City in what was clear to all an open and shut case.

Fifa President Gianni Infantino may be coerced to shed light on why clubs like Manchester United and Real Madrid are not punished for buying players when they already saddle over 1 billion of debt between them.

Only under a siege of public pressure will we uncover the reasons why a world cup was given to Qatar, who were the most lacking of all host bids in terms of infrastructure (set aside that it would mean desert football in the summer).

10 month bans are handed out for doping while human rights offences such as racism are punished by a slap on the wrist.

The traditional football world has mobilized its troops in unprecedented fashion in a bid to stop the great clubs of Europe being turned into franchises. If we win the battle against the Super League why stop there. The power is with the fans, and there are far more battles ahead before the war for football is won.

Biggie