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Secondo il “Wales on line” un videogame sarebbe imputabile di istigazione alla violenza verso i tifosi del Cardiff e del Swansea e questo potrebbe avere acceso gli animi anche in occasione della sfida odierna. “Little Hooliganz” , infatti, darebbe la possibilità virtuale ai fans di “Blue Birds” e “Jacks” di impersonare rispettivamente “Mike The Chopper” e “Jason The Scot” ( parodie dei nomi dei giocatori Chopra e Scotland ) che nel gioco hanno come finalità quello di rubare soldi per acquistare birra ed armi da utilizzare contro i rivali. Anche dalle associazioni ufficiali di clubs delle due squadre si biasima la casa che ha ideato e commercializzato il prodotto sembrando prendere sul serio una tesi che pareva   destinata a strappare, al più, una risata. La “Blouzar Company” si difende con la ovvia considerazione che mondo virtuale e vita reale non sono da mettere in connessione in alcun modo e  legittimamente  dubita che i protagonisti degli episodi violenti, che per altro avvengono con regolarità da qualche decennio in occasione del derby gallese, possano essere adolescenti eccitati da ore passate davanti al computer.

Bluebirds and Swans fight in online hooligan game
Wales Online
05 April 2009

AN ONLINE football game has been slammed for encouraging violence between Cardiff and Swansea fans ahead of today’s derby.
In Little Hooliganz, players can sign up to hooligan ‘firms’ for either Cardiff City or Swansea City.
Cardiff fans can choose to be hooligan ‘Mike the Chopper’ – a thinly disguised reference to star Bluebirds striker Michael Chopra. Swansea supporters, meanwhile, can be thug ‘Jason the Scot’ – clearly named after Trinidadian hotshot Jason Scotland.
Gamers then fight their rivals with guns, swords and baseball bats and win points for injuring other supporters.
Fans from both cities have signed up to the site and there are fears that virtual violence could spill over into real-life fighting on Sunday.
The Football Association, football fans’ groups and anti-gun and knife crime campaigners have slated the online game for “glamorising” violence.
The game’s characters must steal money to buy beer and weapons, which also include scimitars, chainsaws, cricket bats, crow bars and knuckledusters.
Players are invited to try and “become the most notorious, respected and meanest hooligan the world has ever known”.
Phil Sumbler, chairman of Swansea City Supporters Trust, branded the game a “disgrace”.
He said: “Hooliganism is something that both Cardiff and Swansea are trying their best to eradicate.
“This game just stirs up bad feeling when supporters on both sides would just like to see the violence disappear and concentrate on the football.”
Vince Alm, of Cardiff City Supporters’ Club, said: “We have had a hooligan problem for the last 25 years but things have improved remarkably over recent years.
“However, there is still a lot of work to be done as new generations of Asbo troublemakers come through and these games do not help us at all.
“It is just someone else trying to make a quick buck out of violence in a computer game.
“It is in very bad taste and sends out a very poor message.”
Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters’ Federation, said: “We are totally opposed to anything which glamorises any form of violent behaviour associated with football.
“It is totally irresponsible to be encouraging even cyber-violence among fans at any time, let alone ahead of derby matches.
“We would hope that genuine football fans and children would not play this game.”
But a spokesman for company Blouzar, which runs the website, described it as no more than a “parody” of football hooliganism.
Director Nicolas Jacquart said: “I think players can make the distinction between online hooligans and real-life thugs.
“Just because we are giving Cardiff and Swansea fans the chance to buy a gun, sword, baseball bat or knuckleduster and attack their rivals doesn’t mean they are going to do it in real life.
“We are not encouraging trouble at this weekend’s Welsh derby.”