S. quote: how did we miss Cardiff hiring Mick the violence, because of their heritage, everything supporters. In October 2004, during a Football League Cup tie at home to Liverpool, Millwall fans taunted their Liverpool counterparts with songs making fun of the Hillsborough disaster which had claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans in 1989. A large proportion of the 2,000 fans in The Den on Saturday expressed their outrage when the teams took the knee before the game against Derby County. Although he had played for eight different clubs, playing his fewest games (four) for Millwall, and was signed to Bradford City at the time, the BBC used the headline, "Former Millwall striker Gavin Grant guilty of murder".

In January 1988, when Millwall were knocked out of the FA Cup by Arsenal in a third round match at Highbury, 41 Millwall hooligans, were arrested after clashing with Arsenal's firm The Herd. Wolves fan found guilty of racially abusing Rio Ferdinand during clash with Manchester United in 2021. Millwalls letter to fans was weak, pathetic and not worthy of a club that has done fine work in the community over the years. That appeals to boneheaded contrarians like Rod Liddle game to be more interest than I thought about the Factory! On that night, approximately 20,000 people packed into a ground that usually only held half that number to watch Luton beat Millwall 1–0.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding, which was released this past February to critical. I can remember a programme on the radio away back early 70s, must have been about a year after Barcelona. It continued: The eyes of the world are on this football club your club, and then came the bombshell. C. [12] When Millwall's unbeaten home record of 59 games came to an end against Plymouth Argyle in 1967, the windows of the away team's coach were smashed. Of your experience on the club to erect fences around the Den one Saturday afternoon to watch them Norwich!

The BBC set the tone early when the narrator suggested: “Millwall is more than a football club, it’s a way of life.The fights today are rarely newsworthy unless its a big one, or a fan gets seriously hurt and even then most of this happens in Europe. The force of this familial bond is felt in many such accounts, and must have seemed an inviting proposition for hundreds of young men at the time. The message from the boardroom was clear: it was crucial that “they” should not be provided with any more ammunition.

Sometime around 1968 me and a mate decided to go over the Den one Saturday afternoon to watch them play Norwich.Instead the BBC portrayed hooliganism as being deeply rooted in Millwall, and attempted to link them to the far-right political party National Front. In the original film, Harry The Dog, F-Troop's notorious leader, was shown fighting a mob of Bristol Rovers fans single-handed and some of the worst excesses of football violence were exposed. C. Pitch invasions resulted in another closure in 1947 and in 1950 the club was fined after a referee and linesman were ambushed outside the ground. Violent incidents punctuate their history but a 1977 Panorama documentary elevated the notoriety of their fans to a different level.

And don't forget cambridge away first game of the season when the general was in all the newspapers what a mob that plus pop robson scoring the winner. You can’t fuckin’ swear, you can’t stand up, you can’t have a go wiv a propah sing song, not like the good ol’ days.This sense of local loyalty is abundantly clear in Bob’s first taste of terrace fighting, which was at the tender age of eight: "I went to a match in Feb 1967, just before I turned nine – I used to go with my dad. Back in 1977, one fan spoke of an Asian family, just off the Banana Boat, being placed in an expensive hotel. The game, won 2–0 by Hull, was overshadowed when seats, coins and plastic bottles were thrown by some away supporters. our biggest problem was we had too many groups and front men all over the place with coaches , trains etc everyone arriving at different times and from different areas . Not someone who was active, but was at most of the games when it went off big time and was inadvertently involved sometimes.