TWENTY-FOUR football fans were arrested before, during and after Liverpool's FA semi-final against Chelsea at Old Trafford.
The club secured a place in the final at Cardiff after winning 2-1 in the match held at Old Trafford in Manchester on Saturday.
Tensions were high as the fans travelled to the neighbouring city. Supporters from Manchester had draped offensive banners about the Hillsborough disaster over bridges on the motorway approaches to the city.
The Liverpool Urchins fans group meanwhile used spray paint to daub similar messages about the Munich air disaster of 1958 around the walls of the ground.