The Fix: How the First Champions League Was Won and Why We All Lost
is an engrossing examination of the 1992/93 UEFA Champions League
season. In 1980s Europe, revolution was in the air and the
corridors of footballing power were not immune from the forces
sweeping the continent. The breakup of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
and the USSR gave UEFA a problem. There were more national teams
and league champions than their post-war competitions were designed
to handle. Rather than the collapse of communism, the bigger
headache for administrators was the success of capitalism. Gordon
Gekko-styled businessmen like Silvio Berlusconi (AC Milan) and
Bernard Tapie (Marseille) were beginning to involve themselves in
football with less than benign motives. Against the backdrop of
constant threats from the continent's most powerful clubs to form a
breakaway super league, the UEFA Champions League was born. The Fix
looks at that infamous first season, from its humble beginning on a
Faroese hillside to its ultimate conclusion in a French courtroom.
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