SuggestedLeadIn: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady arrived at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Thursday (3rd September) just hours after his regular season four-game suspension was overturned by a judge.

Script: Tom Brady will start the new NFL season on the field after a judge lifted the league's four-game suspension of the star quarterback on for a scandal over deflated footballs.

The federal judge declared he was treated unfairly by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

US District Judge Richard M. Berman criticised Goodell for dispensing "his own brand of industrial justice" as he found multiple reasons to reject the suspension one week before New England's season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Super Bowl MVP has insisted he played no role in a conspiracy to deflate footballs below the allowable limit at last season's AFC championship game, a 45-7 rout of the Indianapolis Colts.

The judge cited "several significant legal deficiencies" in the league's handling of the controversy, including no advanced notice of potential penalties, a refusal to produce a key witness and the apparent first-ever discipline of a player based on a finding of "general awareness" of someone else's wrongdoing.