The truth about Millwall fans

[northsomersetred]

Enjoy

 

Meet the Millwall fans in this picture. Because I know you want to know who they are. Allow me to introduce you.

Colin, 52. Started going to Millwall a few years ago as part of a midlife crisis. Doesn't know what he fears most between His wife and privately-educated kids finding out he goes Millwall or his fellow fans finding out he runs a vegan cafe and bookshop and votes Green Party.

Big Den, 51. Cheeky chappie London cab driver. Heart of gold, do anything for anyone, never pushes in the Kings Cross rank because it's against the code. Thinks the channel migrants should be rounded up and gassed.

Carl 37. Once pushed an away fan outside the tube station before ducking behind his mate. Still spins it down the boozer that he wrote off half of Charlton's mob forgetting that everyone he's telling the story to was there and saw it all. Hasn't had a real punch up since year 7

Pete 52. Quietly fancies himself the top lad. Jokes that his best days are behind him. Shadow boxes in the mirror before setting off to the game. Thickens his cockney accent at weekends to hide the fact that he's a deputy headteacher at a prep school. Divorced.

Maurice 57. Mysterious and vaguely threatening quiet man. Rumours among the lads that he's an armed blagger who was best mates with the Krays and did 30 years in Belmarsh. He allows them to think this.

Only conviction was for non payment of TV Licence Lives with his elderly mum.

Ronnie, 58. He actually tells people he was an armed blagger and did 30 years in Belmarsh and was best mates with Reggie Kray.

Train cleaner at a TFL depot. Suspended sentence for voyeurism.

Derek 61. Retired plumber. Fancies himself a man of the world. Has a story from every country you've been to. Books him and the wife into the same self-catering apartment in Benidorm EVERY year.. Sings"Dirty Old Town" on karaoke every chance he gets.

Edited September 18, 2023 by northsomersetred

[Jose]

I don’t get the hate Millwall fans seems to get. Yes you get the odd idiot like you do at any club but the atmosphere in stadiums are getting worse and worse so give me a game with a little edge over what we and most clubs experience every week. 

[Eddie Hitler]

10 minutes ago, Jose said:

I don’t get the hate Millwall fans seems to get. Yes you get the odd idiot like you do at any club but the atmosphere in stadiums are getting worse and worse so give me a game with a little edge over what we and most clubs experience every week. 

 

It isn't "hate", the OP summed it up well.

Most football clubs have fans who live, or lived, local to the club or have a family connection.

Then you have the successful clubs who attract fans with no connection to the club but support it because it wins things, like supporting a successful Formula 1 franchise. 

Then you have Millwall with its popular reputation as the club with the nastiest, hardest, most violent fans in Britain. (Note - "popular reputation", I'm not trying to start a pissing contest here.)

As such it attracts the "walk on the wild side" types who want to be associated with such despite their biggest transgression ever being stealing some Pick and Mix from Woolworths aged eight.

The "deputy head at a prep school" example nails the type well.

[archie andrews]

Wish ashton gate was more like that.... 

[Red Army 75]

Watch the bloke in the kids tracksuit on his trampoline. Not good gestures from the Millwall fans especially the little shit at the front. Watched this a few times some strange goings on

[alexukhc]

6 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Watch the bloke in the kids tracksuit on his trampoline. Not good gestures from the Millwall fans especially the little shit at the front. Watched this a few times some strange goings on

Saw this last night, embarrassing 

[Clevedon Red]

17 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Watch the bloke in the kids tracksuit on his trampoline. Not good gestures from the Millwall fans especially the little shit at the front. Watched this a few times some strange goings on

Nowt as queer as folk so the saying goes. I suspect this scene is played out up and down the country.

[Fordy62]

https://x.com/timmsy_ks/status/1703555446596919308?s=20

You missed the point of the whole thread. This was it. 

Edited September 18, 2023 by Fordy62

[Miah Dennehy]

Football grounds are full of middle aged blokes shouting 'come on then' from a distance of 100 yards behind several lines of police, I don't think Millwall are any different in that respect.

My cousins on my mum's side are pretty much evenly split between Palace and Millwall and with the exception of one of the Millwall (I was with him in the open end at Ashton mid80s? where it went absolutely mental ) most of them are just your normal everyday blokes who like football and follow their local team. They definitely do attract a 'type' though, I've been to Millwall games with cousins and ended up talking to several  'geezers' with strong mockney accents who turn out to be from Slough, Hertfordshire, Basingstoke and the like.

They aren't the only ones Rangers, Chelsea and West Ham do and on the other side of the coin I've bumped into a few weapons at Celtic over the years.

If you think about it logically, Andrew Tate must get his followers from somewhere

[fisherrich]

1 hour ago, archie andrews said:

Wish ashton gate was more like that.... 

AG used to be a hostile away day for many away fans. Far too nice nowadays. But that is what Lansdown likes. The Atyeo stand should be accessible to City fans also IMO. Sterile ground currently with no atmosphere. 

[Northern Red]

1 hour ago, Red Army 75 said:

Watch the bloke in the kids tracksuit on his trampoline. Not good gestures from the Millwall fans especially the little shit at the front. Watched this a few times some strange goings on

From the other side:

 

[Red Army 75]

Just now, Northern Red said:

From the other side:

 

Oh he didn’t have a trampoline. What the **** is he wearing. 
The cocaine is strong in this one

[Peter1450]

Should quit the drugs and put the money he saves towards a larger track suit.

[Red-Robbo]

47 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Football grounds are full of middle aged blokes shouting 'come on then' from a distance of 100 yards behind several lines of police, I don't think Millwall are any different in that respect.

My cousins on my mum's side are pretty much evenly split between Palace and Millwall and with the exception of one of the Millwall (I was with him in the open end at Ashton mid80s? where it went absolutely mental ) most of them are just your normal everyday blokes who like football and follow their local team. They definitely do attract a 'type' though, I've been to Millwall games with cousins and ended up talking to several  'geezers' with strong mockney accents who turn out to be from Slough, Hertfordshire, Basingstoke and the like.

They aren't the only ones Rangers, Chelsea and West Ham do and on the other side of the coin I've bumped into a few weapons at Celtic over the years.

If you think about it logically, Andrew Tate must get his followers from somewhere

 

Middlesbrough native, now living in rural Dorset, Rod Liddle, for example.

They are a victim of their previous rep, in getting these sort of football-violence glory hunters along, but that rep was well deserved.  I remember my dad telling me that it was the only ground he'd visited when working for City, that they got to their seats covered in gob from the Neanderthals on the terraces.

There are still enough nutters and wannabe nutters who follow them for them to be disproportionately involved in unpleasant incidents, given the relatively small size of their fanbase.

Like all clubs, the majority of their supporters are decent men and women. 

Edited September 18, 2023 by Red-Robbo

[BS13 Robin]

5 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Watch the bloke in the kids tracksuit on his trampoline. Not good gestures from the Millwall fans especially the little shit at the front. Watched this a few times some strange goings on

Why is the little shit at the front with the hood holding his dick?Is he pissing himself!!

[Sniper]

5 hours ago, Northern Red said:

From the other side:

 

Do you reckon his nickname is Foot Pump.

[big dosser]

the sad thing half way through is there fellow millwall dads with there kids having to leave due to zeberdee being let out for the day

[Sleepy1968]

6 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Middlesbrough native, now living in rural Dorset, Rod Liddle, for example.

They are a victim of their previous rep, in getting these sort of football-violence glory hunters along, but that rep was well deserved.  I remember my dad telling me that it was the only ground he'd visited when working for City, that they got to their seats covered in gob from the Neanderthals on the terraces.

There are still enough nutters and wannabe nutters who follow them for them to be disproportionately involved in unpleasant incidents, given the relatively small size of their fanbase.

Like all clubs, the majority of their supporters are decent men and women. 

I've said it before I think, but Mrs Fudge and a few of the regulars on coach one were telling me what happened the season before my first trip, when the coaches got their windows smashed.

To be fair, I was more intimidated in my earlier years when Milwall made a bonfire in the open end with the seats lobbed from b block (I think).

[REDOXO]

20 hours ago, Jose said:

I don’t get the hate Millwall fans seems to get. Yes you get the odd idiot like you do at any club but the atmosphere in stadiums are getting worse and worse so give me a game with a little edge over what we and most clubs experience every week. 

The odd idiot! My first experience of Millwall was 54 years ago. I was six. My old man was warned we are gonna kick your f******* heads in you Bristol C***** walking to the match.
 

I’d happily watch as their ground was burned down!

[REDOXO]

18 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Football grounds are full of middle aged blokes shouting 'come on then' from a distance of 100 yards behind several lines of police, I don't think Millwall are any different in that respect.

My cousins on my mum's side are pretty much evenly split between Palace and Millwall and with the exception of one of the Millwall (I was with him in the open end at Ashton mid80s? where it went absolutely mental ) most of them are just your normal everyday blokes who like football and follow their local team. They definitely do attract a 'type' though, I've been to Millwall games with cousins and ended up talking to several  'geezers' with strong mockney accents who turn out to be from Slough, Hertfordshire, Basingstoke and the like.

They aren't the only ones Rangers, Chelsea and West Ham do and on the other side of the coin I've bumped into a few weapons at Celtic over the years.

If you think about it logically, Andrew Tate must get his followers from somewhere

A few weapons at Celtic. :laugh:. 
 

In 2008 I was in Barcelona for a European Cup tie. I went into a bar with a chic I got talking too from Hamburg. Longkesh 89 and about ten others in a bar packed to the gunnels with green hoops started on me. At this point they thought I was Catalan. When they realized I was English I got chased up the Main Street until I dived in a taxi while they were quite literally trying to open the car door to get to me. 
 

Yep the odd weapon!

[Jose]

3 hours ago, REDOXO said:

The odd idiot! My first experience of Millwall was 54 years ago. I was six. My old man was warned we are gonna kick your f******* heads in you Bristol C***** walking to the match.
 

I’d happily watch as their ground was burned down!

54 years ago? Hold a grudge much?! 

[Topper 123]

I got to be honest I got a lot of time for wall fans and I wish Ashton gate showed a little more passion at the bigger games ie tonight. The game was a working MANS game years ago and shouting a little at away fans was part of the 90 minutes after a few beers in local boozer NOW full of wannabes holding a mobile phone ffs long live the wall