“They stuff their bellies with tomorrow’s ache,” the Canadian poet Edmund Vance Cooke wrote almost 100 years ago. Perhaps he had already foreseen how Europe’s biggest soccerclubs would embark upon a ceaseless quest for more control and even greater wealth. Their latest plans for an elite, relegation-safe European Super League should, however, prompt us to ask howvisionary these pioneering clubs really are. As Cooke clearly knew, excess and gluttony rarely come without gastric pain.
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