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Premier League chief executive Richard Masters says they “don’t want to normalise asterisks on the league table” as the competition faces up to a potentially critical season over its regulatory future. With the Manchester City case expected to finally have an outcome by April, that potentially seismic decision hangs over the entirety of the new season, which is due to start on Friday. Masters kept his stance of refusing to discuss any element of it, other than to say “of course we contemplate at its conclusion what might happen and we think about that a lot”.
