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Anger as European breakaway threat re-emerges hours before UEFA vote

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Television money is a key ingredient in the European Super League recipe. [Photo: Courtesy]

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."

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