memories of millwall

[Silent Blade]

I remember my dad taking me to a match against Millwall at the Lane in the 70's. Can't remember the score or anything about it. Can't even remember if it was definitely Millwall or not. Maybe someone like Silent Blade could tell me? Great game though, I'll never forget it.

Won 3-1 in March 31st 1970 (my 8th birthday!)?
Won 2-0 (controversial goal by Hockey) in April 1971?
Won 5-2 in March 1978?

Cant be the 1-1 draw in May 1977 or the 2-0 defeat in Feb 1979!

 

[Supermatic]

Won 3-1 in March 31st 1970 (my 8th birthday!)?
Won 2-0 (controversial goal by Hockey) in April 1971?
Won 5-2 in March 1978?

Cant be the 1-1 draw in May 1977 or the 2-0 defeat in Feb 1979!

Nah, it was none of them.

 

[Silent Blade]

Nah, it was none of them.

Got to be in the 1980s then!

 

[Sean Thornton]

Comedy Gold

 

[Supermatic]

Got to be in the 1980s then!

Definitely 70's cos I remember my Da was wearing high waisters and a star jumper.

It could have been, er, Ipswich though. They played in a similar blue...

 

[Silent Blade]

Definitely 70's cos I remember my Da was wearing high waisters and a star jumper.

It could have been, er, Ipswich though. They played in a similar blue...

 

[Dnblade]

Comedy Gold

Haha...Classic.

 

[Finnieston]

Only seen Millwall in London once and that was at the Valley with my Charlton supporting cousin this was in the very late 60's skinhead time. I must say after the game it was very lively on Charlton station and on the train back to Abbeywood, I can't say I ever forgave her for introducing me to that running battle.

Born in New Cross and used to go the Den one week and the Valley the next week. Always a Charlton supporter and played at both as a junior.
Hales and Flanagan..........Weller and Posse. Working at Watford hospital and used to watch TC train and thought then how advanced he was. Moved to Sheffield to marry a Sheffield lass and started supporting United,and saw TC again and have been going ever since. Always liked United even when living in London............ Funny old game Saint.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Even Vincent Pericard scored that day, such was the shiteness of the home team. I seem to remember a gentleman in "salmon" (pink) shirt in and amongst that group of 40 copping some abuse.

Yes, I remember him. I also remember, when our fourth went in, a load of their lot filing out and a Blade popped up and shouted "20 cunts, sat in a stand"

 

[JJ Sefton]

Born in New Cross and used to go the Den one week and the Valley the next week. Always a Charlton supporter and played at both as a junior.
Hales and Flanagan..........Weller and Posse. Working at Watford hospital and used to watch TC train and thought then how advanced he was. Moved to Sheffield to marry a Sheffield lass and started supporting United,and saw TC again and have been going ever since. Always liked United even when living in London............ Funny old game Saint.

A mate of mine played for Charlton juniors in the 70s, surname is Trent, if you know him.

 

[Ted Hemsleys chads]

i remember my first visit to the den of millwall back in the heydays of 1970s hooliganism and football was just a side order from the menu i usually carried a spear with me to matches as I had just watched Zulu for the 45th time that month and everyone was telling me that if I didn't go tooled up to the den of millwall in the london city capital of england queen mother's got wooden teeth and charles is a big poof that I would get my windows put through even though I didnt wear glasses i think i saw tony polony head boy of their hooligan crew the DFS I assumed it was him as he was carrying a lovely corner unit from a chesterfield three piece suite at the same time i was in the chippy on crouch end road moaning about there not being enough white men to serve him his tasty fried potatoes

inspired by the OP

Fucking brilliant, made me laugh till lots of wee came out. Just read it again and now I'm crying.......TWAT!

 

[Superblades]

Can I give my memories of Sheffield United - from a Millwall point of view.

My first visit was 2002 for a Tuesday night game at t'Lane.

16,037 were in attendance, with 621 travelling up from SE London. I guess I was the 1.

We got to witness a rip roaring match, with future Blade Paul Ifill putting us 1-0 up and looking pretty good to go to win at a canter...this was a decent Lions side, featuring Paul Ifill, Steven Reid, Tim Cahill, Tony Warner and Lucas Neill - all of whom went on to play Premier League football. Richard Sadlier was the best of the lot - but had his promising career cut painfully short by a cruel hip condition.

However, this was a Sheffield United on the up, and despite finishing 13th that season they had a crop of decent youngsters too, who helped them to 3rd the following season and to promotion in 2006. And backed by a very partisan crowd they fought back and equalised in the 67th minute via one of those promising youngsters in Michael Tonge. The Lions stepped up a gear though, and took the lead again just 6 minutes later.

It was getting quite heated inside the ground, as Millwall and United fans exchanged insults over in the corner, this ramped the atmosphere up again and the Blades responded, with Ndlovu grabbing a late, late brace to send our friends in the corner wild.

The matched ended 3-2 to the Blades, and the 621 Wall fans went to make their way out into the typically cold Sheffield night...only to be greeted by a chant of 'BBC, BBC, BBC' growing louder and louder. For some reason there was quite a relaxed police presence, quite odd considering how active Millwall were that season (ending in a full scale riot in May, which saw 900 police officers injured after a play-off match with Birmingham City). Indeed, there were probably a good 400 hooligans & casuals up for meeting these Blades Business Crew chanters head on. It soon became apparent that the majority of the chanters were youngsters trying to live off the name of the infamous BBC, with only a few serious, old school hooligans amongst them.

I ended up scooping up a young lad who had got caught up in the melee, and returning him to his grateful dad, a United fan. We stood quite casually about 20 foot away from the big punch up discussing what a great game it was. Quite surreal. Even more surreal was the fact that I was seeing a girl who was a student in Sheffield, and so I walked back to her house along Ecclesall Road, but ended up getting into a fight with a couple of pissed up, annoying students.

The only other time was when we somehow got a 2-2 draw in front 22,292. You lot were top, and we were rock bottom. Only 321 of us bothered going - I guess I was the 1 again. I came up with two mates, one of whom was refused entry by your stewards, as he didn't have a ticket or a Millwall membership card. At this time Millwall fans were still having to hand in passport pictures and prove address details with utility bills to join the membership scheme - and you had to be a member to be able to buy a ticket, and all away games were all-ticket. They still are - but you don't have to hand in a passport picture or utility bills now at least. However, my mate was helping his brother run a nationwide drugs distribution operation out of Peckham using long distance lorry drivers at the time, something his brother is still doing time for, and so didn't really want to sign up to the membership scheme, especially as all details were passed on to the Met. Instead he had a few beers in that pub opposite the ground, before the police moved him on. He followed the game on ceefax (remember that) while watching Columbo on the B&B tv.

You lot got a late(ish) equaliser, and it did feel a bit unfair, as bizarrely we were the better side. I think there was a bit of trouble in town later on, and this may have been the season that a Blades fan was badly beaten...which led to quite a big turn out of Sheffield United hooligans at one of the more recent Den meetings. In fact it is one of the very few times in recent years that anyone has 'called it on' as they say, here in SE London, rather than shouting out while walking down 'Coward's Way'.

Btw, before anyone starts, no, I am not a 'Danny Dyer' wannabe. I am an ordinary person. It's just that when you follow Millwall away, especially to places like Sheffield, you tend to come back with a few stories to tell!

The 3-2 game was on a Tuesday night, it was the first game we played after the Battle Of Bramall Lane with West Brom. Think we won it in the 90th time, much needed boost after the club was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons before that game.

 

[diplomat]

Which game was what I call the announcement of Tonge? We won, scored 3. Was it 3-1? I thought it was. Or was it the game mentioned earlier that was 3-2? It was early in the season. Tonge was brilliant playing left midfield and in his debut season. He tore the full back apart, usually doing the same trick. He was very creative and really looked a talent.

Other memories are losing 0-1 to a cynical Wise team when we needed to win to have a chance of the playoffs. We never looked like scoring. Morgan was thrown upfront to run around and look lost for twenty mins and Warnock had one of those moments where he compared himself to Mourinho because he chucked Terry up once and he scored. . . They probably actually practiced such a scenario tho whereas we clearly didn't.

 

[1973Blade]

Only 780 going tomorrow. Where are all those that queued up and were ranting and raving about Bolton tickets?

Thats not a dig as I realised I have not been a regular away follower and it is expensive etc (and we are shite!) but does seem a huge drop (even taking into account the game at Bolton being closer and also the first day of season optimism)

Only 774 tickets for AFC Wimbledon, problem solved. Six will be disappointed!

 

[Silent Blade]

Which game was what I call the announcement of Tonge? We won, scored 3. Was it 3-1? I thought it was. Or was it the game mentioned earlier that was 3-2? It was early in the season. Tonge was brilliant playing left midfield and in his debut season. He tore the full back apart, usually doing the same trick. He was very creative and really looked a talent.
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3-2 was in March 2002
3-1 (Tonge 10 out of 10 performance- ref Jeff Winter patted on his back after his goal) was in August 2002

 

[robbiez666]

I vaguely remember going to the Den in the 80s (87 maybe). We lived down south for a few years and my dad booked us tickets. He didn't think about which end we'd be sat in. Queue 90 minutes of being very very quiet. We lost (can't remember the result) but we did score.

 

[Whiston Blade]

Remember the Warnock documentary: Warnock to Ifill: "that's for Muscat"

COYRAWW !!!!!