Championship kick's off tonight

The Championship will kick off tonight with the first game Hull City v Blackpool with the main body of games kicking off at the traditional time for football 3pm on a Saturday afternoon.

However, Cardiff fans will have to sit back and watch because City have to travel to West Ham for a 1pm kick-off on Sunday for the purpose of screening the game live on TV. Off the field the game has been surrounded in controversy after the trip was made a full 'bubbly' with restrictions on the number of tickets available to the travel Cardiff fans. The club and supports even the South Wales police were unhappy with all the restriction and did their best against the Metropolitan police, West Ham and the Ground Safety people.

The compromise trashed out between all parties has done nothing to calm the fans down. They simply refused to allocate more ticket meaning Cardiff fans only got just over half of the normal 2,200 tickets for the away end. Away fans sit in the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand, but if required, the away end can hold up to 3,600 but that would never happen for Cardiff fans. Leeds are due in a few weeks it will be interesting to see what their allocation will be.

A limited number of supporters can travel to South Mimms services by car where a voucher/ticket exchange will take place same with the Official Supporters travel groups. I am not sure if they will have to leave their cars to travel to the ground or in convoy with the coaches. Again, a limited number of exiled fans living near the ground can make their own way to the ground.

Some fans have called for a boycott has many are now sick and tired of the 'Bubbly games' especially with the improvement in the of Cardiff fans at home and away the only real blip was the Chelsea game. The only winner from the any boycott is the Metropolitan police, but then the game is televised I wonder if any kind of a boycott would have worked if the game were not on the BBC Sunday.

Tickets for this game have been selling slowly, but an expected sell-out. If the game was not a 'Bubbly' the whole away end would have sold-out in days.