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Belgium fans trust sat nav and end up in the wrong Wales

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Football as played in Rotherham. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Belgium must be hoping they can find their way to goal against Wales in Cardiff and not follow the example of some of their supporters.

A group of fans rang the Studio Brussel radio station on Friday morning complaining they had found their way to the wrong Wales – which turned out to be a village near Rotherham with a population of 6,455 and not the city of 1.1m people they had been expecting.

The supporters had set out in a bus across the continent, hoping to find the Euro 2016 qualifier at the Cardiff City Stadium by simply tapping “Wales” into their sat nav.

Unfortunately, rather than guide them to the Welsh capital city it took them 200 miles out of their way to an otherwise little-known parish in south Yorkshire, according to HLN.be.

The good news was they still had time to drive a further four hours to get to Cardiff in time for the kick-off.

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