Swansea vs Cardiff: Is this Football's Fiercest Derby? 

as a English man I’m a Bristol City fan and I was dating Cardiff woman I to the Cardiff City vs Swansea city game fantastic atmosphere and singing. It’s a shame they ate each other it ended 3-2 to Swansea city I like the Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿..👍🏻

It really started long before the 90s. I am 71 years old and I recall as a schoolboy being excited to go away to a Welsh side for the first time as my few away matches had been to English clubs. It was a Welsh cup match I seem to recall. No segregation in those says and the 'Grangetown End' came piling round the terraces to attack us. This was in the late 60s. I had never known hooliganism until that time. Our coaches were bricked after the game and this was regular occurrence until crowd control became a feature. There are idiots on both sides no doubt but don't pin this on Swansea fans starting it in 93. Thankfully things have improved but I suspect it is manly due to 'the bubble'.

Without the bubble in place there will be trouble no doubt , and like 1 guy said neither club are exactly in any position to fork out for more cops , as much of a pain it is i can't see it going away anytime soon

For me, the South Wales Derby is one of Britain's great derbies.

I’m a Welshman but I follow all Welsh sport, I always see how Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Wrexham get off . Although my heart is at Liverpool, I have supported them for over 45 years and Anfield is great.

Football aside I love the derby either watching it via the tv or at the stadium I don’t do the nonsense fighting etc it is just football but when your at the game it different gravy got to love the chants to

I remember as a student in Cardiff going to see a Welsh Cup Final between Cardiff and Swansea with Wynn Jenkins from Ammanford. Ended up in the wrong end of the old Ninian Park. Very uncomfortable 90minutes -“ for God’s sake Wynn - stop cheering”

Derby's Derby is Forest and when they meet there's always something crazy kickin off .. either on the pitch or off. lol . .. Swansea v Cardiff , it's how it is for a reason . A genuine rivalry.

Burnley v Blackburn have been doing the bubble thing for yrs. And preston v Blackpool and vise versa have specialised routes for each teams coaches just for this game.

Chester vs Wrexham used to be the same, when both in same league

Millwall v West Ham has to be the most dangerous & violent. Swans v Cardiff is up there, WBA v Wolves, Brum v Villa there are a few lively ones.

I used to work in Cardiff and drank Brains Beer which is brewed there, a few years later when in Swansea i asked for a pint of it and almost got thrown out! 😮

Sad to say, but without the bubble I do think there would be trouble. Someone said in the video neither side can really afford to have the violence monetarily or reputationally and I think he was spot on. It sucks, but I do understand why. It has spilled out into local communities in the past because the celebrations or lamentations go on into the night. I've been out many times in Swansea and Cardiff and frankly they're as bad as each other even without the football.

Pompey Southampton has been a bubble game for years.

Since January's 2020 derby at Cardiff, it has not been a strict bubble match as it was before. I have been able to travel independently from Newport to Cardiff as a Swansea fan four times now. I have to buy the match ticket and bus package like everybody else, before emailing the club to ask to make my own way. Swansea fans in Cardiff can also do the same but it is on a first come first served basis, so if further down the loyalty scheme selling priority, if the independent travel quoter is fully subscribed, they will then have to go to Swansea to get the coach up. I did travel from Newport to Swansea to catch the bus in both 2010 and 2013 when it was a full bubble. I can't comment on Cardiff's travel arrangements, but Swansea do have more fans living away from the area so is a better deal for our fans. If there was no bubble it would be chaos. Not as if away fans would be welcome in the pubs either, so I don't see the point in dropping it. No doubt those looking for trouble would also travel without a ticket. Somebody would get killed.

Hopefully Wrexham will join the party🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Good piece Daniel.

Football’s fiercest rivalry? I’m a Swans fan and it is up there but surely the Old Firm is the UK’s fiercest? Then there’s some mad derbies in Brazil and Argentina!

Fiercest rivalry that never gets played is found in Bristol. Should those clubs meet again….Christ

One of ‘’englands’ greatest rivalries apparently

I live in Swansea and work in Cardiff, honestly don't get the rivalry.

RANGERS VS CELTIC ...AND THATS FACTS !

The bubble is a waste of time. It’s not December 1993 anymore. The lads are now dads…

Sunderland newcastle

I was at that game in 93 and it was not allegedly at all. They ripped out wooden seats and started throwing the seats at families. The kids and their families had to be moved out of the whole section below the Swansea lot. There was a pitch invasion but no actual fighting on the pitch that I witnessed. There were fights between the fans in the upper grandstand but I think the Swans fans were content in just throwing seats and not getting involved with the main Cardiff club contingent.

Oh Dear, I remember the real violence at Ninian Park back in the 70's and beyond, not just Jacks but all visiting clubs, Neanderthal pitted against Cro-Magnon man, as bad as each other back then and probably still so, never understood soccer violence and never will.

These travel arrangements also apply to the East Lancashire Derby! Do your homework Danny!

In Wales it might be

Newport vs Cardiff is pretty fierce. The jacks are tramps .

Blackburn v Burnley is also a bubble match. Utc

watford luton is a bubble bus fixture too. last season watford had to travel on buses

right donut at start and didn’t let up.

Are all those Swansea fans you interviewed related

Swansea cardiff is deeper than a local rivalrie, thr bubble match is for security reasons as there has been rioting and fights

The bloke around 2:35 to 2:40 must've been on a sponsored one word deadline.

SUNDERLAND newcastle is biggest derby.

Bloke on 5mins is spot on. Club before Country. SCFC

I wish someone would’ve given the old fella peeping through the gate to catch some of the game a ticket.

Cardiff fans are amazing. 🫡🫵 massive respect.

I'm pne and it's toxic against Blackpool but not sure which derby is worse for trouble these modern times 🤔 why don't they just let them fight on a field away from the ground 🤔

Cardiff be down the beach again if it weren’t a bubble 😂😂 soul crew fucking biggest myth going

At 4:07 is that Tom Jones? 😂

Bubble games aren't unique to this fixture

Rangers Celtic for atmosphere doesn’t get beat.

Celtic V Rangers fs far more crazy ppl have and get killed after these matches 💚🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Swans fans are way more passionate

93’ they can’t handle the fact that again the swans had to take it to them as they have for years.

Twin town was a good film

Utterly ridiculous to treat people this way.

Cardiff v Bristol City was a bubble for years. Bristol City fans had the bottle to boycott it one year, it’s not a bubble anymore. If you want this bubble stopped, then stand up, grow a pair, and boycott it. Otherwise you have yourselves to blame. Mind you, Cardiff fans have history of being walked over, it took them about a year to finally stand up to having their club colours changed from blue to RED 🤣

The SWD is the only UK domestic match to have ever banned away fans.

Chester v wrexham is bad. Bubble match as well.?

That's bollocks Sunderland v newcastle did the same thing with the tickets and buses

Safc vmags tasty

I respect the content but Celtic Rangers by a country mile. More than a rivalry derived from location. There have been multiple killings over the years due to an individual wearing either colour. I remember a boy getting his throat slashed for wearing a Celtic top. Plus the atmosphere is second to none.

Fierce derby

Portsmouth v Southampton is the same

Fighting each other while their areas are being taken over .

West ham v Millwall

People get carried away, I was at the 93 game as a silly stupid youngster, it wasn't that bad, Reading was worse.

Lots comments saying there be no trouble I can tell u now the first game in swansea or cardiff that the bubble is lifted there will be mayhem The game was lasted played with free travel early 90s bot teams lower league and shit crowds,nowadays its much bigger crowds,first off all away fans total banned then it the bubble came in It's morr then football it's politics the lot Never will the 2 sets of fans will get on they hate us and we hate the.

And these bluebirds want to be able to mix at derbys next year. They will get battered.

Ignorant reporter away fans are also banned at the old firm

Done it with chester wrexham bubble is a fuckin joke

You fucking melt England's fiercest derbies.... walesssssss

Used to be a no go in the 80s now its a nothing derby, celtic v rangers, Tottenham v Arsenal on another level

Aston Villa fans think the Birmingham city game is a bubble game! It’s not but the cnuts still demand to be bussed in two miles and locked in for an hour afterwards

Er ... no tbh. Means nothing

No it's not. Its Rovers against b***ley.

No

Ever heard of fucking the old firm

I agree with that all football is shit

no 😂😂😂😂😂

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Why fight over twenty two overpaid men diving and pretending they are hurt time to grow up I think

Unite lads your country is being taken away from you. That's far more important Football is just a game.

Both shite football clubs who shouldn’t be in our league.

English there fucking Welsh

They fight during Wales match.

welsh football is crap,backwards.

Come on ' i ' , get some more content on your site. This football stuff isn't either new or unusual, just adrenalin/testosterone fuelled male blow-off. Yes bad, but frankly pathetic in the great scheme of things. Certainly not worth infecting my screen for days, when so much more important news is going on all around the UK and the world in general.

Fiercest derby is at Turf Moor in a few minutes....make no mistake!!

Cardiff Soul Crew well respected all over England and further afield. Swansea? Dont think so.

Imagine having to live in Swansea. Must be gutting

Sheep bothering Hamptons

Shite the only bubble my arse, Rangers fans have been bused in and out of Aberdeen surrounded by police for decades now, roads gets closed so they can escape Aberdeen quickly and just as well for their own safety really. You want to see hatred at football? Believe me nothing compares to the hatred Aberdeen fans have for rangers/sevco

Pompey Southampton that’s a bubble fixture

Burnley v bastard rovers have been doing this for years 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🇬🇧

Sunderland and Newcastle rid the best derby hate each other