SIMON EVANS THE six English soccer clubs who joined the breakaway European Super League exploded the project just 48 hours after British politicians lined up to oppose the plan, sources on both sides of the battle have told Reuters. Efforts by the rebel clubs' public relations managers to repair the damage have insisted the U-turn came after they listened to supporters. But those close to the process say the clubs had been prepared to weather a ferocious fan and media backlash, and that it was the political response, particularly from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, that proved decisive. Aleksander Ceferin,…