The European Super League will try to persuade judges at the European Court of Justice today that it should be allowed to press on with plans to establish its rival competition, more than a year after the project collapsed amid public outcry.
Football fans – and Prime Minister Boris Johnson - may have thought they had seen off the reviled tournament, which would have featured Europe’s richest clubs in a mostly closed league, when it collapsed within 48 hours of its launch last April.
Supporters took to the streets and Johnson devised a ‘legislative bomb’ to blow away the profits of the proposed venture.