The Premier League has toughened its ownership and directors test to include a ban on human rights abusers, the violent and corrupt.
The move will not immediately impact the Saudi Arabian ownership of Newcastle United, or UAE or Qatari owners as they are not on a UK government sanctions list.
But an “annual report of compliance” will ensure an owner or director of a top flight club has not broken the regulation in the previous 12 months or been sanctioned, in a beefed up set of rules.
