The Peoples’ Game? No more.

Dmitri Shostakovich called football “the ballet of the masses”.

It was a sport founded by working people, to provide entertainment to working men and women at the end of the week.

Since its creation has been commercialised, commodified, and injected with so much money that FIFA has become a byword for levels of corruption one usually expects from the mafia.

But at least the concept of competition, of fair play, was always there.

If this so-called “Super League” is allowed to go forward, then that will be gone. There would be no passion, no tension, no glory. Just a cartel of powerful clubs who will have created a closed shop at the top of the game, the sole purpose of which will be to make more money for billionaires.

This cannot be allowed to happen. Clubs should be sanctioned, and fans should boycott all of the games.

Ultimately we need to work towards the end of privately-owned clubs that are treated like commodities by people who know and care nothing for the game.

Clubs should be owned by their fans.

It’s our game.

We need to take it back.