Two football fans were arrested by police on suspicion of harassment outside an estate agents.

Blackpool Football Club is owned by the Oyston family, who also run Oyston’s Estate Agents in the town.

Police said three people tried to enter the estate agents. The two who were arrested had not got in, according to reports.

Protests against the Oyston family have been building for months because of fans’ unhappiness at the way the relegated club has been run.

In June, Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston was banned from all football activity for six months and fined £40,000 over abusive texts send to a fan.

Last month Blackpool fans said they would try to buy the club.

Owner Owen Oyston, 81, called on Blackpool Supporters’ Trust to clarify points in their takeover bid before he could consider their £16m bid.

In 1996 Oyston was jailed for six years for rape.

He was almost certainly the UK’s most successful estate agent throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties, running the UK’s largest independent, originally set up with his father.

He sold the 90-branch business in 1987 reportedly for £32m to Royal Insurance, returning to the property industry in 2003.