Up to 150 Chelsea and Manchester City fans will be banned from travelling to the Fifa Club World Cup this summer in a bid to “crack down on the hooligan minority”. Fans with a record for previous thuggish behaviour will be stopped from attending the Fifa Club World Cup in the USA after fresh legislation comes into force on Wednesday.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but Manchester City have made the FA Cup semi-finals again. FA Cup lore has become so much about underdog stories and giant-killings that the bigger teams are almost treated as an afterthought: just ask Aston Villa, who were the sideshow to Preston North End’s attempts to win the trophy for the first time since 1938.

Football hooligans from two top English clubs will have to hand over their passports for more than a month to stop them stoking violence at the Club World Cup. Around 150 fans of Manchester City and Chelsea could have their summer holiday plans ruined,