Super League Table: How a Football Power Grab Became Planet Earth’s Favorite Anxiety Index
The morning after every major football “Super League table” leak, the planet’s stock markets usually open 0.3 % lower—apparently the algorithmic traders have learned to hedge against the inevitable Twitter tantrums of 20-something millionaires. Still, what began as a prissy European power-grab has metastasised into a planetary metaphor: a league table that nobody asked for,…