The Fiver | If the big clubs don’t get their way, they’re going to get their way

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Thank the football gods in heaven that Argentina won the 1986 World Cup final, huh folks? Not only did their triumph forever validate the unique talent of Diego Maradona – kids, think Lionel Messi, only he turned up for major international tournaments, went about his work at club level without 10 of the best players in the world doing his running for him, and played on pitches like pigsties when GBH was only a yellow-card offence – it also ensured that Karl-Heinz Rummenigge didn’t get his hands on football’s biggest prize. Not that The Fiver had anything against the West Germany striker at the time, but he’s since become the chair of the European Clubs’ Association, and is now agitating for a European Super League, because apparently under Big Cup “there is a limit to how much money can be made”. The brazen state of it.

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