" Tonights Wales v Belgian game in Yorkshire? "
Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:44 pm
Belgium fans drive to Wales in YORKSHIRE after sat-nav mishap sends them 200 miles in wrong direction
Friday 12th June 2015
By Simon Gaskell
The fans, who had set out for their country's crunch Euro qualifier against Wales in Cardiff, rang a Belgian radio station to reveal their plight
A group of Belgian football fans have driven to the 'wrong Wales' ahead of tonight's Euro 2016 qualifier - after their Sat-Nav sent them to a village in Rotherham.
The group of hardy fans set out driving in a bus across the mainland continent earlier in the week for the eagerly-anticipated Group B clash.
But, having punched 'Wales' into their GPS and simply followed the directions, they later found to their horror that they had taken a three-and-a-half hour detour to South Yorkshire.
The GPS mishap was revealed after the supporters rang in to Studio Brussels at 8.30am to inform host Siska Schoeters of their mistake.
As first reported by HLN.be, the supporters explained they’d accidentally driven to the ‘wrong Wales’ after failing to double-check the directions their Sat-Nav had come up with.
Having hoped to have been soaking up the pre-match atmosphere with their fellow Belgians in Wales' capital city, they had instead ended up heading to the village and civil parish of Wales, Rotherham - which has a population of just 6,455 and is 200 miles and three-and-a-half hours away.
The map below shows where they went wrong.
The only consolation for the supporters was they had plenty of time to locate and reach the correct Wales - and the Cardiff City Stadium - ahead of kick-off at 7.45pm and 18 hours on the road.
Presumably they are somewhere closer to their intended location by now.
Friday 12th June 2015
By Simon Gaskell
The fans, who had set out for their country's crunch Euro qualifier against Wales in Cardiff, rang a Belgian radio station to reveal their plight
A group of Belgian football fans have driven to the 'wrong Wales' ahead of tonight's Euro 2016 qualifier - after their Sat-Nav sent them to a village in Rotherham.
The group of hardy fans set out driving in a bus across the mainland continent earlier in the week for the eagerly-anticipated Group B clash.
But, having punched 'Wales' into their GPS and simply followed the directions, they later found to their horror that they had taken a three-and-a-half hour detour to South Yorkshire.
The GPS mishap was revealed after the supporters rang in to Studio Brussels at 8.30am to inform host Siska Schoeters of their mistake.
As first reported by HLN.be, the supporters explained they’d accidentally driven to the ‘wrong Wales’ after failing to double-check the directions their Sat-Nav had come up with.
Having hoped to have been soaking up the pre-match atmosphere with their fellow Belgians in Wales' capital city, they had instead ended up heading to the village and civil parish of Wales, Rotherham - which has a population of just 6,455 and is 200 miles and three-and-a-half hours away.
The map below shows where they went wrong.
The only consolation for the supporters was they had plenty of time to locate and reach the correct Wales - and the Cardiff City Stadium - ahead of kick-off at 7.45pm and 18 hours on the road.
Presumably they are somewhere closer to their intended location by now.
Re: " Tonights Wales v Belgian game in Yorkshire? "
Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:50 pm
Meeting up with Tank and the other Jacks were they? 
Re: " Tonights Wales v Belgian game in Yorkshire? "
Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:10 pm
