The Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Masters, has reassured the division’s 20 clubs that he is not in favour of government regulation for the competition.
Masters spoke at a meeting of the clubs on Friday in response to the fan-led review of the English game, which was chaired by Tracey Crouch, a former sports minister, and published on Thursday of last week.
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The primary recommendation was that football needed a strong independent regulator, which was not what the top-flight clubs wanted to hear, and some of them were worried when Masters said in an interview with the BBC last Friday that he supported the principle.
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