Chelsea and England captain John Terry has seen one of his closest allies blacklisted by the FA.

The Daily Mail says the FA have risked upsetting England captain Terry on the eve of the World Cup international season by including his advisor and close friend Aaron Lincoln on a list of unlicensed agents circulated to clubs with the warning not to do business with them.

Yet Lincoln has never once purported to be a licensed agent and others within his specialist organisation who have the necessary qualifications deal with all of Terry's business that come within an agent's regulated scope of work - like the club negotiations surrounding the central defender's new £150,000-a-week contract at Chelsea.

Former Chelsea kit man Lincoln, who is held in high regard throughout football, has already explained in detail to the FA how his company operate.