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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Masters outlines Premier League’s objections to ‘risk-averse’ regulator

A close-up of a Premier League football
Richard Masters made a series of Premier League counter-proposals to the current plans. Photograph: Stephen White/CameraSport/Getty Images

Richard Masters has laid out a series of detailed objections to plans for an independent regulator for English football, arguing the body will be too risk-averse and subject to too much influence by government.

This new series of challenges to the regulator is perhaps the ­Premier League’s most forceful piece of ­lobbying. With the football governance bill passing its way through parliament, Masters fleshed out the league’s longstanding criticism that the regulator would result in ­“unintended consequences”.

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