Match day Cardiff slammed as 'plastic cup-littered apocalypse filled with drunken zombies' as booze ban calls grow

I bet the people who run the stadium are going to put up a bigger fight than the rugby supporters. Think of all the profit they will lose

In sharp contrast to the Welsh football internationals, where clued up socially aware fans conduct a fun and orderly indepence march to the ground. They then belt out amazing renditions of the anthem throughout the match and they actually know the words. There are usually no arrests for anti social behaviour fighting or drunken conduct. The Welsh football fan community are a credit to our nation home and away and their patriotic passion remains evident during their everyday lives and not just on match day. Who would have thought that Rugby hooliganism would become a characteristic of the modern game. I don't even follow football, but the foofball supporters stand head and shoulders above the zombie horde that currently make Cardiff look like a scene from the walking dead on match day.

The reason there is far less actual violence in the crowds at the stadium is not down to the WRU's security arrangements but to those who who go out their way to avoid confrontation with those causing them problems.

It's been like this for 20 years. When I lived in Cardiff I'd lock my door or go to another city during match days. The city centre is a no-go zone.

Every time Wales play I hear people, both men and women - say 'I'm going on an all-dayer Saturday,' whether they are going to the game or just staying in their home town. Rugby and getting steaming is now synonymous.

Here we go again, this site is more akin to a soccer fanzine or the Wrexham Leader. It's a shame as the issue raised is serious and needs action. So, we've had for weeks of Wales playing the best teams in the world, 60 or 70 thousand plus supporters at each game and this is all you publish! Yet if a soccer crowd sings our anthem or someone farts in Wrexham it's headline news! I see you've mysteriously missed publishing an article on the soccer hooligan problems with Swansea City on the weekend??? You have to stop being so biased and stereotypical in your reporting and provide coverage for all of Wales and its people, not just your small corner of Wrexham.

Match days? The last time I was in Heol Santes Fair in Caerdydd on a Friday night was an eye-opener. A line of parked ambulances waiting to be used. Hordes of police ditto. People in hi-viz bibs waiting to help the drunks and stop them choking on their own vomit. Later piles of rubbish in the streets from takeaways. I am told that's actually EVERY Friday and Saturday night.

How times have changed.I remember a time when Rugby fans at The Old Arms Park where genuine Rugby Fans.They would sing I Bob yn Syn Fyddlon and Calon Lan.These days of those who go to watch Wales play Rugby around 95% of them don't know a Calon Lan between them.They can't even get the words right for the Chorus of Bread of Heaven. I have followed football for very many years and with the exception of Swansea Cardiff Derby games I have found football a far safer environment than any Rugby International in Cardiff. Just ask anyone who works on the Railway's who they prefer and they will tell you Football fans before Rugby fans who go to watch Wales.Anti Social behaviour was always more the exception than the rule when Swansea and Cardiff played in The Premier League. From a personal point of view I never felt more intimidated at a sporting Event than the last time I watched Wales play Rugby in Cardiff.Some people come up with the excuse It's only high spirits with The Rugby Boys.Since when was fighting and violent conduct High Spirits.

I go to every 6-Nations and Autumn match, and this isn’t a picture I recognise. There is beer consumed regularly throughout the matches, but in the 11 years I’ve been going, I’ve never seen any vomiting or fighting, nor has anyone had to be escorted out of the Stadium in my section or the ones I can see, apart from that twp pitch invader the other day. It is true that the Autumn Series is more commercial, with a younger audience who don’t know the songs/ can’t be bothered to sing, but generally belt out the Anthem, drink more steadily, and appear to leave having had a very positive experience, which is what the game needs, as they are the audience of the future. There is a whiff of politicisation here, possibly by people who may not have experience of the realité, and who have other, hidden agendas (as ever).