Wolves fans were today banned from making their own way to Cardiff for the FA Cup tie on February 16.
Supporters must use organised transport and will not be allowed to buy tickets if they want to travel in their own car or by bus or train.
Chief executive Jez Moxey today blasted the ban.
The club is increasing the number of official coaches and will run them at cost price but is trying to establish what will happen to supporters groups around the country planning on organising their own transport.
Details of coach numbers and ticket prices will be announced closer to game on February 16 (3pm).
Cardiff fans were banned from Molineux after clashes with police in March 2006 after they vented their fury over a half-time alcohol ban.
Mr Moxey said today Wolves had done “everything possible” to persuade South Wales Police to change their minds over the transport ban. Different kick-off times or a switch to Sunday were both floated as possible solutions, and supportive letters from West Midlands Police, the FA and the Football Licensing Authority were submitted.
He said about 29,000 fans had traveled away with the team so far this season with no reports of public disorder and 11 arrested for minor offences. Wolves have an allocation of 2,000 tickets priced at £23 seats, £22 terrace and £15 for concessions. Officials are looking into beam-back coverage at Molineux corporate areas.
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Doesn’t the last paragragh say it all about wolves fans 29,000 have travelled this season and no reports of Public Disorder.This is Ridiculous lets just all go on the coaches and give the players what they deserve COME ON ME BABBIES Prediction 3-0 ebanks blake hatrick
is this there way of getting there own back after you banned the cardiff thugs,,,this is pathetic..go by car anyway i would..
all the wolves whingers blaming Moxey - dad i think we got it wrong again.
I think we have a simple choice here, go along and be treated with contempt by the police or just not go and show that we are not prepared to be treated like that.
MAGIC OF THE F.A CUP MY A*SE!!!!!
THIS IS THE BIGGEST JOKE IN THE HISTORY OF WOLVES.
WHAT ABOUT THE FANS WHO DONT LIVE IN WOLVERHAMPTON.
FARCE.
when you look at the majority of incidents around wolves recently you can’t halp but feel that the police are indirectly responsible. what ever happened to keeping away fans in for half an hour after a game?? what ever happened to common sense? what ever happened to treating fans like people and not like hooligans?
the police are to blame for many problems at football grounds, their lack of foresight and initiative is something to behold. I once had to walk through lots of away fans (fighting away fans) in order to get to wolverhampton station after the police, in their wisdom, cut off a road and advised that fans should walk a certain way… unfortunately they forgot that they were sending all fans the same way.
This happens time and time again at molineux and at grounds around the country. Policing fans is not rocket science, it’s common sense. unfortunately the police lack the latter.
smug out.
what a load of rubbish. sounds a bit like revenge to me.
This is a disgrace, we are meant to live in a free country & I am sure it is not impossible to moniter law abiding citizens travelling to Wales.
Put Cardiff in the Rymans Welsh league where they belong! Typical that they have to be different and make up their on rules. I don’t see why the FA can’t step in on this. It’s unethical and a “prisoner like” way of organizing transport and humans. As mention in the article, what happens to those supports that don’t live in and around Wolverhampton and want to go to the game?
What a joke!!! Im from the Hereford area just an hour to Cardiff. Does this mean i’d have to get to Wolverhampton to get a lift to Cardiff????!!!!!
Im still goin.
Methinks this is a bit of tit for tat, and I bet the chief super is a city fan! bah,bah,bah.
This is pathetic, I live closer to Cardiff than what i do to Wolves and will have to travel stupid amounts of miles to watch a game 40 mils away…Put your foot down jez and ban them from the mol. They are the trouble makers and i for 1 feel like im the trouble maker being banned.
For a Police force that handled several FA Cup/League Cup finals & numerous Play Off Finals,(pardon the pun)this is a Cop Out.
For me it would involve travelling 180 miles from Tunbridge Wells to Wolverhampton,then jump on the charra-banc to Cardiff,then the same for the return?
Who do they think they are kidding?
In the event of a replay, are Wolves going to be forced to allocate them X amount of tickets?
Thanks, but no thanks!
This is moxeys fault,its just payback from the banning of their fans last season
why are Cardiff part of the football league anyway? This is Moxey’s fault, it was rubbish without the opposition fans at Moulineux last year, hope it doesn’t happen again. Find the culprits and ban them not the whole lot.
Scandalous!!
I can imagine this only affects me, but as a season ticket holder (with enough points for a cup ticket) living in Cardiff i was looking forward to this match. Do I really have travel to Wolverhampton (a 200 mile round trip) to get to a ground that is no more than 2 miles from my front door? Thats one hell of a carbon footprint! There was no problem for the leauge game 3 months ago, so why all the fuss now from the South Wales Police? Maybe they can give me an escort from my living room to the ground!
Is this retribution for banning cardiff a few years ago?
If the gmae in November went off peacefully at Nian Park then why are these impositions on our civil liberty deemed necessary
It seems South wales Police are not fit for purpose and are clearly not up to policing- perhaps we could get different security in for this fixture?
Also why only 2000 tickets when 15% of the allocation should be just over 3000
Ridiculous
Absolutely ridiculous, and absolute petulance from Cardiff who seem to be oblivious to the fact that it’s the Cardiff fans who managed to start a fight with themselves. Maybe if Cardiff City did something to seek out and ban the known troublemakers then we wouldn’t have to ban them from Molineux and I would have some respect for their board. And a quick question, what about the Wolves fans who live in Cardiff - for example those studying at university there? Are they going to have to come back to Wolverhampton to get on a coach to Ninian Park, and then forced back on a coach to Wolverhampton before making their way back home to Cardiff? Utterly ridiculous.
This is a “tit-for-tat” retaliation which the South Wales police should be above!
What are the Wolves fans who live in Cardiff supposed to do? Travel to Wolverhampton and get a coach back down…..!? its become a right farse
come on wolves go and win
Scandalous!!
Wolves is not a small time club with a limited following. What are fans like me based in London supposed to do? This is really annoying, I was looking to go to every FA cup game this season on our route to Wembley.
How about providing free travel for anyone buyng a ticket
Hey guys look on the brighter side - Wolves won an award !!!
We got voted as the biggest whingers, how cool is that?!?!…LOL
Check the link out:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=512441&in_page_id=1779&ct=5
Full list of The Prawn Awards
Worst Home Fans – Bolton Wanderers
Worst Away Fans – Fulham
Worst Songs – Everton
Most Corporate Fans – Arsenal
Biggest Away-day Disappointment – Manchester United
Biggest Egos – Tottenham Hotspur
Biggest Whingers – Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Total joke. It will cost me about £10 to get to Wolverhampton and back and then a further £20 to do Wolverhampton/Cardiff return, and on top of that it will add 3 hours to my round trip. My original plan of giving my mate a tenner petrol money has gone out of the window so the South Wales police can keep me safe? What a loada b….
I hope that we (players & supporters) can use this farce to our advantage. The players should be wanting to get one over on all that is Cardiff & give the travelling fans a greta treat. Come on you Wolves, I won’t be there but I’ll certainly be listening.
Can somebody tell comment No1 not to have a £5 bet on his scorer/score prediction!!!!!
Why you’re all making the Welsh digs I don’t know. Like they’re treating us bad. The way our police treated them was a disgrace.
We should appeal to the FA. This will surely effect the Wolves attendance at the game now, which will give Cardiff an unfair advantage.
Where is the police justification for this. Just sounds like a reaction to their ban at Molineux.
Moxey is at the mercy of the FA, sureley they need to step in here.
Thank you Cardiff.
I am based in Windsor.
So to go and watch my team play in the FA Cup - the best cup competition in the world apparently - I have to travel up to Wolverhampton to travel down to Cardiff, which will double the distance, time and expense of me going along the M4.
Any sypmathies I had for Cardiff have now gone.
This is an attack on football fans civil liberties. Contact the Minister for Sport to complain:
Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur St, London SW1Y5DH or e mail: enquiries@culture.gov.uk
I am!
Can I start by saying that both Clubs worked together to overcome these problems and Cardiff City made numerous and detailed submissions as to why Wolves fans should be allowed to travel independently.
We as a club believed that we could apply control measures that would have been acceptable and some others were offered by Wolves in an attempt to avoid this decision.
I understand and in some degree & concur with your opinions. In fact your observations were one of the central points of our argument - In that where we previously had a problem between CCFC fans and WMP there could now be issues between WWFC fans and SW Police.
We are fully aware that fans are not all based in the Clubs town of origin however, and due to the fact we have had this method of travel on many occasions are used to the problems that this throws up.
As such we have worked with all parties to agree on a policy where exiled fans can meet buses organised by WWFC at the RVP (probably at Cardiff West Services) where they can then make the final journey to the stadium. This is subject to availability and subject to WWFC taking up this offer.
I hope this helps in some way and you can rest assured that this was no reprisal to what we consider the error of banning CCFC fans last season.
I believe that is now behind us and we look forward to working with WWFC so that normal arrangements can be resumed.
Regards
Wayne Nash
Ground/Stadium Manager
*email sent to me from cardiff when i questioned yesterdays announcement
Just got my ticket for the game!
Just a pitty about the travel arrangements forced on us! As it would have been easier for me to travel down to Cardiff.
Looking forward to the game ans a Wolves win.
With the history of violence between the fans and the disputes over policing I think this measure has some common sense about it. There is an acute danger of this fixture becoming an annual poisonous battlefield. I would have taken my sons to ANY other away fixture in the cup apart from this one. I would love to see every minute of Wolves reaching the Cup Final having seen us lose 4 semi finals in the past, but I will not go to Cardiff under any circumstances. You can’t see from the away end anyway, and the entire day would be spent fearing for the safety of me and my lads. This match needs seriously strict control.
Go dressed as Tom Jones, you will all easily pass as locals of Cardiff.
Everyone knows that it’s the Cardiff idiots who cause the trouble, so this is just the welsh police getting theyre own back..pathetic
Just booked my tickets 2 the big match….with the SW Police doing this wont it spark more troble on the terraces anyway? i think it will be messy there!!!!
every team has its trouble makers so dont make out you lot are angels.. yes cardiff also have idiots, i was at the hallowed ground a few weeks ago when we played them- total idiots but so were a few of the baggies fans. a solution to your problem, people living in wales or closer to cardiff than the custard bowl i mean, why dont the wolves put on official coaches and have certain pick up points along the way, same from down south (london way) and then you can still collect your match ticket en route as the above have stated you need to collect your match ticket on the coach. anyway being welsh and a baggie i have to say come on cardiff even though i hate them with a vengence
for all you “muppets” blaming Jez (again)cobblers-grow up.
Would this happen to any other sports fans? NO
total joke, the police have gone way too far…
No. 36, good idea, but it’s not unusual!!!
It will be interesting if Wolves and Cardiff were to meet at Wembley in the playoff final!!!
My cousin is at Cardiff Uni, we are all born and bred Wolvo, and were planning a weekend away in Cardiff, Friday - Sunday, to visit him, and take in the sights (other half loves Torchwood?!?) The October match there was midweek……………convenient eh, so we couldn’t do it then.
Now it seems we won’t be able to do it again, so will have to cancel the plans. Stupid stupid idea. They really haven’t thought it through, and upset a lot of real fans, just because their own fans can’t behave themselves.
I live in Hereford and live closer to Cardiff than i do Wolverhampton But Cannock Wolves have kindly offered to pick me up on there way, in ross-on-wye to save me traveling to wolverhampton.suggest other wolves fans living near-by contact supporters clubs who have been given permission to travel a Would ring.. Cannock wolves is a very nice man and will help you out..
To my friends at Wolves.
Mick McCarthy men are playing like 11 supermen, unfortunatley the opposition are cheating and covering the ball with kryponite which inhibits the full force of our supermen beating the world.
Regards Alan.