The Super League collapsed in calamitous fashion Tuesday when nearly all of its 12 permanent members announced they were pulling out of the doomed European club championship proposal.
Speaking Wednesday on the late-night Spanish radio show “El Larguero,” Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez insisted that the league merely was on “standby” and that “we are looking for ways of getting this done.”
Pérez, who was set to become the Super League’s chairman and has been its most vocal (and perhaps only remaining) defender, seemed to blame one of the six English Premier League clubs for getting cold feet and causing a domino effect among the other Super League aspirants.