A Millwall fans write up on yesterday

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I was at the stadium about 30 yards away from where this all happened so I'd appreciate if you took the time to read my account of what actually happened.

First of all - I resent the comment 'Millwall are the scum of the earth'. That little girl you saw there is Millwall. My 5 year old nephew and my 60 year old dad who were with me at the game today are Millwall. We, along with 99% of the Millwall fans in that stadium are no different to any other fans in the world.

The people you saw in that footage are the scum of the earth - there is no defending or denying that and you wont find a single Millwall fan who disagrees with you. We are a club who gets an average home attendance of 12,000 fans - there were 35,000 Millwall fans at Wembley today. Where have they come from? Your guess is as good as mine, but I can assure you thousands of them have no affiliation with the club whatsoever.

What ACTUALLY caused the mass brawl?

The brawl actually started about 10 minutes before the cameras seem to have picked up on it. First of all - everyone in that part of the ground was pretty much standing at the time, because we had a lot of possession at that end of the pitch and were having a decent spell. From what we could work out, there were 1 or 2 drunk guys who started pushing and shoving (we didnt see how it started). This simmered on for a while and they were stumbling across rows knocking in to others. The people they were knocking into were with their families and obviously reacted and told them where to go (like anyone would). The drunk guys then started on these people.

Here is where it escalated. At this stage, at any ground in England, you'd normally expect stewards and/or police to step in and sort it out. I can tell you, and you will see yourself if you can find a wide enough angle, there must have been no fewer than 40 stewards standing at the front of that section of stand who were just watching the fighting and doing NOTHING. Not radioing for help, not going to get help, not even standing up - just watching. There were police in the corners of the ground also watching and doing nothing. There were, I'd estimate, no fewer than 100 Millwall fans trying to get the attention of the stewards and police to no avail whatsoever, while these idiots had been brawling and knocking into them and their families for the last 5-10 minutes while they were trying to watch the game.

Then Wigan score - effectively ending the game for us.

At this stage, the drunk dickheads from neighbouring stands had decided to come and see for themselves what was going on - I'd guess about 15 guys came over. This chaos went on for about 10-15 minutes before the police came wading in from the tunnel indiscriminately hitting people with truncheons including the people trying to defend their families. This caused people to turn their anger towards the police - and to be honest, while I don't condone their actions, having watched that chaos unfold for 10 minutes, I understood them. What you saw on TV was this last segment of events - not the build up.

Now let me ask you - what can any club do if there are 2-3 people who turn up and just want to have a fight? What more could Millwall as a club have done? We don't control the police. We don't control the stewards. Please don't tar us all with the same brush.

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Millwall Nick 14 April 12:11
It was an internal dispute that flared up again, no f*cking westham were in there. Regretably there was woman and kids nearby, but when its gone off anywhere between two mobs, most times theres people in vincinity who get distressed. How many peole can say they havnt been to some sort of family do, where alcohol as kicked in, and its gone off with women and kids in a confinded space. In their circumstances people tend to forget their surroundings.
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Steff Hirst 14 April 12:09
I was sat just to the right of the trouble it was just a couple of slaps at first then it went off for a good 45 min on and off OB came in once and got twated and never showed again be the sound of it there was a few old scores getting settled Millwalls firm was f*cking massive yest mob out all over London I was in killburn with a good 200 plus old skool

Thank you for giving us that account. I took my little girl to her first Bluebirds game yesterday which made the footage of yesterday's disorder (and the tearful girl) all the more shocking.

i still cant believe shit like this is still going on .... absolutely disgusting scenes .... disgrace to football.

I think everyone knows it wasn't your true fans doing this and the stupid kick off time didn't help either, as for the police it is always the same when they pile in, never getting the real villians, just battering anyone in the way, this happened a lot in the 70/80s alot. good luck for the rest of the season and do us all a favour and do Hull on Tuesday for us

This chaos went on for about 10-15 minutes before the police came wading in from the tunnel indiscriminately hitting people with truncheons including the people trying to defend their families. This caused people to turn their anger towards the police - and to be honest, while I don't condone their actions, having watched that chaos unfold for 10 minutes, I understood them.

Ala Wolves away in 2006, when the brave WM old bill did exactly the same

if ive ever read a true and honest account of a post its from payne 89 ...spot on mate ...I was there to in the above tier over looking it ...makes me laugh when u read it was Chelsea ..west ham ..palarse fans ect..f**k was it ....it was a few millwall twats pissed and coked out of there nut ....if any of the real wackers would of got hold of them at the time....... doing time in the nick would be the last of their worrys now ....the cock with the o.b hat in the paper today ....don't think he will laffing like that when hes picking up leroys bar of soap up off the shower room floor in the scrubs ......bend over little boy big leroys coming to say hello

Feel sorry for the genuine Millwall fans and wanted them to win yesterday because their are a proper old Club but every Club has its arseholes who want to cause trouble and thre was a fair few on display yesterday

[quoteHere is where it escalated. At this stage, at any ground in England, you'd normally expect stewards and/or police to step in and sort it out. I can tell you, and you will see yourself if you can find a wide enough angle, there must have been no fewer than 40 stewards standing at the front of that section of stand who were just watching the fighting and doing NOTHING. ][/quote]

Yeah those stewards are shit houses for not steaming in

Not surprised that the stewards didn't react same as when we had Liverpool fans mouthing off in OUR sections at Wembley. just stood and watched.

Feel sorry for Millwall, a decade of hard work undone by some cretins.

i still cant believe shit like this is still going on .... absolutely disgusting scenes .... disgrace to football.

This^^^^^^^^ but as the guy says they ain't all like that, I know a few wall fans cos I lived there for years and it is just the scum that go to games, and have 20 pints of Carlsberg Special Brew before kick off

Millwall got a bad reputation for a reason, I went there once and it turned my hair grey.

I agree there were no West Ham or Chelsea in their end causing trouble yesterday because if there had been millwall would have been on their toes FACT

I didn't write it I'm cardiff just thought it was a good account of the situation

I agree there were no West Ham or Chelsea in their end causing trouble yesterday because if there had been millwall would have been on their toes FACT

are you for real

I agree there were no West Ham or Chelsea in their end causing trouble yesterday because if there had been millwall would have been on their toes FACT

are you for real