[Scratch_Perry]

Quite agree. I think the world feed commentary of West Brom v. Wolves said they had heard reports of people in pubs at 0530 ahead of that match, partly there for the cricket.

I'm not sure how it works for fans and authorities, but the system implemented for recent South Wales derbies (and many other fixtures I think) is the away fans have to have travel from their home stadium on official buses and are IDed and checked. This looks to work, as the last derby took place on a. Saturday at 1945, which would have been unthinkable years ago.

What we don't want is big fixtures to become like recent Old Firm derbies that have had no away supporters.

I think the term they use is a "bubble fixture", is where as you say, the away fans travel together, from their stadium, and are in their own bubble (games involving Leeds and Millwall as the away team tend to be bubble fixtures).