Display as a link instead, Many were rivals working for opposing companies and vying for the same business. ASIN The game saw hundreds of West Ham fans invade the pitch on three occasions, forcing the game to be temporarily suspended once. 1996-2022, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. They the shadowy enemies of Millwall are lining up to take relish in the embarrassment caused by explicit racist behaviour. #7. Reply. The surgical mask lot always cracked me up even in those days! You are using an out of date browser. Unable to add item to List. [14] The penalty that Millwall faced was perhaps that the club's name was now "synonymous with everything that was bad in football and society". There was no booing. 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Just think what we would have done had we had mobile phones back in the day????? Thread starter mil1lion; Start date Feb 19, 2017; Forums. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2021, Worst piece of fiction I have ever read,should have called it, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2020, I thought it was about harry the dog but the book is rubbish from the first page to the last. It's easy! This aroused considerable excitement among the spectators. The News of the World, however, bore the headline: "Millwall Thugs Deck Linesman With Concrete". Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break".Did you mean to use "continue 2"? 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 .. if mobile phones had been about . That was the norm Steve remember the northbrook with Millwall and aving cass pennant on the door never helped did it now i would say 1970s right up to the 80s was the best until it become trendy to be a chelseaa thug. I was still at school and was the only one of mates who went that day, same as to spuds away a couple of years earlier in a night game where a small group of us went inyo the park lane end (i stayed in there the whole game). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Mad times ( but great memories!). Remember all that bollox about the Millwall brick? The squire on Bromley road? Megson wasn't steady though was he, he was taking us straight down, Negative, boring and shit as well as alienating half the players and three quarters if the fan base is quite something else, It appears fashionable for folk to try to rewrite history though. Cup final", "Millwall 19641966 Back to Back Promotions", "Leeds United v Millwall: Police mount anti-hooligan operation", "Millwall v Leeds United: Police issue behaviour warning", "Millwall angered by Carling Cup ticket decision", "West Ham and Millwall mount defence over Carling Cup violence", "West Ham fined 115,000 over violence against Millwall", "Football: Crowd trouble may lead to closure of New Den: FA charges south London club after disturbances at play-off match", "Liverpool fans jailed over Hillsborough taunts riot. 10:19 EST 29 Nov 2007 The real fans today, the blue collar lot, are being priced out of the game as its all about commercialism, big pay packets for the players and big money for the owners the real fans are steadily being forced to watch more games on the TV in the comfort of their own homesas I do now living overseas..than going to the grounds; but IMO when I watch our games, or any other it is without doubt that the fans have made the EPL what it is today. : I was only fortunate to get to as many home games as I could and some away games in and around London as I was living in Reading and although the cost of getting in the ground wasn't high, the cost of the train fare etc and a 'fun' day out ate into the wage packet, especially as a young apprentice..anyway my point is that as I sit here 40+ years later I sometimes reflect when I read posts like yours; Was this the era that had one of the biggest impacts on the history of footballbecause of the fights and the way the old grounds were designed; fans standing on the terraces leaning against the railings and being pushed forward from the back etc, the feeling of the warm piss of the nutter behind you running down your leg, caused many significant changes in terms of safety and security, none of those things entered our heads then, let alone the owners. Hooligan Agony: Anecdotes on Wakefields Paul Sykes. Luton were asked by Millwall to make the Wednesday night match all-ticket, but this was ignored. Millwall in the Cup. 1977 some of you older chaps will remember this documentary. Sunderland in the Milk Cup, home and away and by all accounts at Parsons Green, Tottenham in 1978 I was at Seven Sisters and we did really well, and Upton Park in 1981 which rarely gets mentioned. 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". The BBC approached a number of teams and only Millwall agreed to become involved in the filming. The BBC set the tone early when the narrator suggested: Millwall is more than a football club, its a way of life. [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. Does this item contain quality or formatting issues? That's about right. Remember one of his crew was a fat geezer called George Cook, who a few months later we spotted in Southend. "[10][11] Trouble was reported at Loftus Road on 26 March 1966 during a match between Queens Park Rangers and Millwall, at a time when both sides were near the top of the league table pushing for promotion to Division Two, but the London derby was won 61 by QPR. Back in 1977, one fan spoke of an Asian family, just off the Banana Boat, being placed in an expensive hotel. The Den has never been as universally white as some imagine. : Never experienced anything like it and i was a kid at the time really. The mob was at its peak when i was mid teens..Then in my opinion peaked again in the 80sNormally when i wasnt in the mob probablyhahahha. What do these books have in common? : Please try again. I'm from Southend and when I worked on the door of the Ivy House on the seafront I had a run in with Harry the Dog and a few of his chaps. [4] Millwall's hooligans are regarded by their rivals as amongst the stiffest competition, with Manchester United hooligan Colin Blaney describing them as being within the 'top four' firms in his autobiography 'Undesirables'[5] and West Ham hooligan Cass Pennant featuring them on his Top Boys TV YouTube channel, on which this fearsome reputation for violence was described. 2 also features songs recorded live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Colorado in June, 2021a documentation of their first live audience concerts in over a year due to the pandemic . By They have a prominent place in football culture that means they have a relevance that. You are not welcome here. Instead it pandered and pretended. An alcoholic who died in a shop doorway. Kelvin MacKenzie, an enemy of football, liked to bask in the reflected toughness during his heyday at The Sun. Football Hooligan, And the Leeds United Service Crews Top Boy. , Paperback The mid 70's in the old second division are my favourite memories for away day sorties. [2][3] On five occasions The Den was closed by the Football Association and the club has received numerous fines for crowd disorder. Harry the Dog is a legend amongst British football hooligans. Author is the same on all, Ian Drawie, Drew Alina & Dan Wieral. Early 80's without a doubt. "Bobby the Wolf, Harry the Dog, Mad Pat and Winkle. [9] The ground was again closed for two weeks in 1934 following crowd disturbances after the visit of Bradford (Park Avenue). London has changed a lot since then mind you. In the last episode of the series Bobby gets his revenge on the Wolf for last week's grilling and the Wolf lays down a chilling challenge for the current top. Millwall - Bobby the Wolf. Has anyone ever seen the documentary about Millwall hooligans from 1977? Your link has been automatically embedded. : There was a problem loading your book clubs. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 18, 2021. In the early 80's (as someone who was part of the Chelsea firms in the late 70's to early 90's when CCTV made us mere mortals) have to say the fashion, the special scene and organisation made it our strongest. I am 60 next year and i try to explain to my grandson (also Chelsea) what it was like back in the day,but you had to be there.CBL was definately one of the moodiest of places i visited. I was at my mate Smithy's house in Crawley and he knocks on the door. As leader of Millwalls notorious F-Troop during the 1970s, he was at the forefront of many of the fist fights, pitch battles and gang warfare that broke out between rival firms in that era, including at Eastville Stadium in Bristol where he single-handedly tore into Bristol Rovers firm, the Gas Hit Squad and began headbutting, kicking, punching and gouging the eyes out of every member of that pathetic little outfit who got in his way. Loved early to mid 80s The millwall game remember them just before kick off giving it some and getting run out of the west.into the north and setting fire to everything they could . Fighting began on the terraces and spilled onto the pitch; dozens of fans were injured, with some hooligans turning on their own team's supporters leaving some innocent fans bloodied. , Enhanced typesetting That Bobby the Wolf is still around, lives up Brentwood, But unfortunately the coach broke down ! We are an easy club to criticise and in my time [at the club], the way we have been reported is unfair", he said. Comedy gold. Bobby the Wolf: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Football Hooligan, and the West Ham's Intercity Firm's Top Boy Kindle Edition by EWAN RILAD (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1 rating See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited 1.99 to buy Paperback [32], After a game against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road in September 2010, manager Kenny Jackett said Millwall's hooligan problems are to a certain extent exaggerated by media sensationalism. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. Other major changes were ground designs, destruction of the old wooden stands and many other changes to take us to where we are today. But there were many others. Yeah it was funny. I was at Upton Park in 1979 in the old second division when we beat them 1-0. The programme, called F-Troop, Treatment and the Half-way Line, after the three mobs that roamed The Den, introduced such characters as Harry The Dog, Mad Pat and Bobby The Wolf to the wider public. Came down on the train!. Bobby the Wolf: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Football Hooligan, and the West Ham's Intercity Firm's Top Boy Paperback - 20 Feb. 2022 by EWAN RILAD (Author) 1 rating See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited 0.99 to buy Paperback 4.99 1 New from 4.99 : I hear this all the time from Spurs & Arsenal I just have little laugh and walk away. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Late seventies early eighties were my prime years, didn't make it to many away days but the one's i did it was always a good turn out where ever we played for the last few years igo to a couple of away games every season although there is always a good turn out there is never any of the old lads about. : Watched this a while ago, really good watch indeed. I remember having a chat with someone who went to Chelsea games but he actually supported another team " The fighting was better with Chelsea." It's 1977, and Millwall are in the bottom half of the old Second Division. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Upload or insert images from URL. 'Tiny' aka Ian Garwood was a Millwall fan since the late 60s. Its not about bigotry, its about us. Thanks for posting that link. 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