Super League Activism

The two-day life span of the supposed Super League was a particularly stressful time for fans of the sport all across the world. The very identity and survival of the sport they loved so dearly seemed to hang in the balance, as new owners from a variety of backgrounds seemed unable to properly understand the more than century-long history of the Football League.

Faced with a crisis of unprecedented scale and impact, the fans responded with a heartening degree of determination and opposition. Culminating in the effective scrapping of the project and a return on the part of the majority of the teams involved to their original commitments.

When it comes to activism, of a political or social nature the majority of movement which is taken in response to such actions is a form of gradual change which eventually leads to a difference being made in that regard. However, there comes certain events which serve to draw groups together and lead to the form of cooperation that allows for truly visible alterations to the way things are done to be carried out.

Often times this can be a tragic event, whether natural or of a more human aspect, yet in this instance at least it provides for one of the few times in human history that greed has provoked such a response.

The proposals made by the big twelve teams were solely focusing on protecting…