Late-night comedian James Corden opened Monday's The Late Late Show with a passionate monologue denouncing the newly announced Super League as "the end of the sport that we love."
"I'm heartbroken by it, genuinely heartbroken by it," Corden said in a nearly eight-minute segment. "I'm heartbroken because the owners of these teams have displayed the worst kind of greed I have ever seen in sport.
"... Football is a working-class game where anyone can beat anyone on their day and it's that that makes it incredible, it's that that's made it a global force."
On Sunday, the proposed Super League announced that 12 of the biggest clubs in Europe—including Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Juventus and Liverpool among others—had committed to joining a breakaway league to rival the UEFA Champions League.