Celtic legend Chris Sutton has celebrated "one of the greatest nights" in football after the proposed breakaway Super League was destroyed just 48 hours after its inception.
12 clubs across Europe - with Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham the English representatives - announced on Sunday night they were preparing to go it alone in a closed shop competition.
It was met with wide condemnation from fans, players, managers, politicians and even royalty.
A horde of Chelsea fans decided to take to Stamford Bridge ahead of their game with Brighton, carrying placards and banners against the project that was then suspended later in the night.
And the former Celtic striker told BBC Breakfast: "Last night was one of the greatest nights in our game, the question is how on earth did we get here.
"There are still a lot of questions which need answering. The couple of days previous to that were pretty depressing.
"Six of our greatest clubs turned their back on our country and our leagues, it would have affected the whole football pyramid. They are the shameless six.
"And they totally underestimated the fans across the country. Credit to the fans, they galvanised, they got together, we saw the scenes outside Stamford Bridge where they stopped the coach.
"We saw a plane flying over Elland Road, we've seen managers come out, Pep Guardiola saying 'it's not sport'.
"And it wasn't going to be sport. It wasn't going to be a competitive league and it goes against all sporting integrity.
"Everybody stood up together, this is a huge victory for the football family, but it's going to be very difficult for people to forgive these six clubs."
The protests turned to scenes of celebration when the news filtered through that Chelsea were the first club planning to make a swift exit.
Club legend Petr Cech came out to meet the fans and hinted at the cracks to show, pleading: "I know. Give everybody time."
It was shortly followed by a statement from Manchester City to confirm they would be pulling out - and by the early hours of Wednesday morning, not one of the six English teams remained in the project.
That prompted an emergency meeting between the remaining six - Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Inter, AC Milan and Juventus. Atleti have since announced they are the first of those teams to pull out.
And Juve chief Andrea Agnelli, one of the main plotters of the Super League catastrophe, has admitted it's game over.
Asked by Reuters if there was still life left in the breakaway competition, he said: "To be frank and honest no, evidently that is not the case."
