America’s greed-drenched hedge fund billionaires and their unrelenting brand of late-stage capitalism can seem unstoppable, with the super-rich even adding to their massive wealth in the depths of a deadly pandemic. But made-in-the-USA greed finally met its match when it tried to take on England’s merry band of soccer supporters. The recent scheme for a European Super League of that continent’s richest soccer clubs — enthusiastically backed by American billionaires like Arsenal’s Stan Kroenke, Liverpool’s John Henry and Manchester United’s Glazer family — looked very much like a Wall Street-le…
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