Super League coffin nailed shut after Real Madrid pull out of their own breakaway plan

February 11 – The final nail in the Super League coffin now looks to have been hammered into place. Earlier this week Barcelona announced they had pulled out of the breakaway European club project, leaving just Real Madrid and its president Florentino Perez at the last man standing.

Now they too have backed down (and out), but perhaps too late to unpick their pariah status. It is a spectacular humiliation for Perez who chased fame and coin to the exclusion of all and everyone else in a...