The vast majority of Premier League fans want an independent regulator for football with the powers to stop nation states, sovereign wealth funds or individuals backed by foreign governments from owning football clubs in England.
In a huge poll of nearly 11,000 fans undertaken by The Mail on Sunday, 85 per cent supported the appointment of a regulator.
But fans of Manchester City and Newcastle voted overwhelmingly against such a move. Just 15 per cent of City fans — whose club are owned by Sheikh Mansour, the deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates — support such a rule, as do just 45 per cent of fans of Newcastle, owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, PIF.