At the request of our gold old friends at the Staffordshire Police, Cardiff's visit to Stoke City's Britannia Stadium has been brought forward to a 12:30pm kick-off.
Despite no trouble between the sides for a few years including recent visits - albeit in midweek - being unrestricted, Staffs' finest have found reason to act.
STAFFS POLICE INTELLIGENCE UNIT
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR CARDIFF FANS
Only last weekend, Cardiff fans found themselves subjected to vastly over the top policing nmbers, even if it was friendly in approach, at Chasetown but all those relations were soured by Staffordshire's Police decision to storm the pitch from both sides at final whistle and face Cardiff fans in aconfrontational manner. Coaches then found themselves escorted over 40 miles down the otorway in convoy from the M6 to the M50 - no wonder fans are heading back to cars and trains.
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