If Europe's top clubs really want a 'Super League,' let them go

“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.