Millwall Away Sat 11th Dec

[bellsize seagull]

should be a good day out, love a lie in then a london game !!!

 

[Dave the OAP]

When I was a kid in the '80s, I used to get taken to Albion matches (home and away) by Coxy's parents. Millwall was the only place I wasn't allowed to go, and I remember the stories from one trip they made in 1985, when Mick Ferguson scored the only goal in a 1-0 win up there.

At that game, half the Millwall crowd emptied to try and get into the away end. When the police prevented them from doing so, they started throwing bricks over the wall into the away end. Nasty. And after the game (Albion fans were led across the pitch to another exit apparently) the Cox's told me of how they bumped into an Albion fan who unconscious and was having his head kicked by about 6 Millwall skinheads. They got out the car and these thugs just walked off, so they took him to a hospital. Apparently the last thing this poor bloke remembers of the whole ordeal was being threated to have face slashed open with a knife - then he passed out and got his kicking.

That was what Millwall was like in the '80s so I guess some people who witnessed that sort of thing will never return. The reason I don't go to Millwall is that being part of a pitifully small away crowd in London just doesn't seem right, and what ever anyone says, I'd always feel like having to watch my back.

This is a bit of an urban myth to be honest. I was at that game and yes most of the game we were pelted with coins, but no bricks. About 10 minutes to go we we noticed people started walking round to our area, but there was never any danger of getting in as it was very well fenced off.

When we came out, we were escorted out along the back of the stand behind us and into the surrounding streets...people going to the station were excorted by police and police horses and dogs. We had to break away from the group and walk away from the station to where the cars were parked and one group of fans asked us where we were from ( we said up there..pointing to the car and they wandered off)

The only real problems I have ever had at millwall was back in 1976/7...we lost 3-1 and fred Binney scored...there was lots of trouble that day and the play off game where they started a bonfire in the stand ( and John Robinson twatted one of their fans)

 

[Lammy]

I have to say that Millwall away has to rank as the easiest ground to get to and from. When you go to Palace it takes ages to get home due to the OTT policing. You get none of that at Millwall. You're home in about 1 hr!

It's a nice ground too with a good view of the pitch!

 

[Parson Henry]

I think you will find Millwall at home is quite OK now.

Go to London Bridge then next train to South Bermondsey and a walkway takes you direct to away end.

Good for taking kids?

How safe are you wil you be on the train and on the platform? What about the way home afterwards in the unlikely event of us winning.

Wouldn't wish to give any of my hard earned cash to Millwall.

 

[Croydonbloke]

it's worth going just for the "we hate palace more than you" banter. Lovely sight of millwall joining in with "the stand up if you hate palace".
The new den's a great ground to go to if you don't actually have to walk around the surrounding area.
Hope they don't shut all the pubs around london bridge again.

We`re at home that weekend you may even hear we hate Brighton from selhurst during your dull encounter at the new den.

 

[sully]

I hadn't planned to go to this one as it's my weekend with the kids and I still won't take them there. However, I've been offered a baby-sitting service, so might go for it now.

I went there a few years back for the League Cup game and, whilst the atmosphere outside the ground was, at times, opressive, I think that it's more in the mind because of the history. Others were wearing colours that night (and berating Krispies for not wearing his!) and I saw no trouble whatsoever.

As someone else pointed out, though, a walkway to the station is pretty pointless if you then just mingle freely on the platform. It's far more dangerous there if someone decides to have a go. I don't really see why they need one nowadays.