As the EU’s highest court decides on who controls European football, three former judges give their take
Alamy | FIFA president Gianni Infantino and UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin
European Court of Justice is set to give a full judgement on the Super League case in coming months, but how will it decide and is it a given that it will follow last December’s opinion?
Former judges and Advocate General give their perspectives on which way the case may go, how the judges work, and whether they will go far enough.
Why it matters: Judgement will shape the face of European football for generations and have profound effects for the so-called “European model of sport”.
The perspective: Judges “are professionally and intellectually conservative” and won’t produce a judgement “to please” tabloid newspapers.
1 March 2023 - 3:57 PM
Two former judges of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) believe that the court will confirm the opinion made in favour of UEFA by the Advocate General last December when it makes full judgement on the Super League case in coming months.
A third former CJEU judge and former FIFA governance chief has said that the issues in the case arguably go beyond the court and that EU institutions need to “step up their game” in protecting the so-called Eur
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