In the moments after the Premier League finally published the Manchester City decision, staff at their Brunel Building base could feel a weight lifting. Actually, they could almost hear it.
Some of the most prominent figures were now, finally, able to discuss the case.
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For someone like chief executive Richard Masters, it is an extraordinary pressure: to be among the few people on the planet to have knowledge of a case the world was obsessed with. You could almost sense the release in his comments in the Premier League’s statement.
Richard Masters and the Premier League have a fundamental problem following the Man City verdict (Getty)
And yet, as...
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