Reuters
European football closed ranks on Sunday, threatening to ban any clubs that join a breakaway competition after the spectre of a European Super League re-emerged on the eve of a vote on Champions League reforms. UEFA said on Sunday that they had learned that a group of English, Spanish and Italian clubs "may be planning to announce their creation of a closed, so-called Super League." Multiple media reports, not denied by any of the clubs, who have remained silent, said that the Premier League's 'big six' -- Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham -- had signed up to the plans.