Wilson is the author of “The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Football Shaped the Modern Game ... and after World War II, Eastern Europe was a beacon of modernity ...

These were the three defining words of a week that shook European football’s very foundations ... that a project apparently three years in the making had imploded in the space of 48 hours.

After making his Champions League debut in 2019 ... you can see what’s possible at the highest levels of European football, but it was not crystal clear at this moment.

The European Game: The Secrets of European Football Success ... (“more than a club”) has now become the embodiment of the modern giant. After years of not having paid advertising on players ...

One under-appreciated fall-out from the Super League was PSG’s rise to the very top of European football politics ... in that project joke of Uefa “making it a thought crime”.

While Parisians set off flares in the street, alarm bells rang in the corridors of power across European football ... Although the overall analysis of modern trends demonstrates the financial ...

The whole sorry story is a testament to the problems of modern European football, but also to what makes it unique. The saga also helps explain the almost immediate furious reaction to yesterday ...