These trademark actions drew allegations of incitement after the heated encounter which Cardiff won 2-1.

He said: "I have decided to stop doing it. Clearly there are a lot of people in the football world, who are some of them good friends of mine and others I have a lot of respect for, and the general consensus is that I should not be doing it.

"In view of that I fear I really should stop doing that because if I don't it is going to become a very major issue even though it is in my rights to do it and even though it has never caused a problem ever, including during the Leeds game.

"If I do it this Saturday or a Saturday in six months' time it will become an issue. We need to preserve the good name of football."

John Nagle, of the Football League, claims Hammam had been instructed in a letter three months ago that the practice could not continue.

He said: "The League acted fairly early on in the season following complaints from visiting clubs to Ninian Park, and wrote to Sam Hammam asking him to desist from walking around the goal.

"There was a response to the letter but not actually acted upon and following further complaints later in the season a meeting was held to discuss the matter of the staging of games at Ninian Park."

But Hammam denied he had acted against the League's wishes however, insisting an agreement had been reached and that Nagle was therefore inaccurate.

"This guy is wrong in what he is saying," said Hammam.

"They did say that after receiving a complaint and then when our chief executive contacted them it was absolutely clear that was superseded and they said there was no problem in doing it.

"I've been doing this for years and years and we've never ever had any problems whatsoever."