I'm old enough to have visited the OLD Den several times in the late 60's & 70's.
I can still picture the poor bloke a few steps above me on the terracing one game, chatting to a few Millwall 'fans'?
"What do you think of Alex Stepney" .. asked Millwall?
"To be honest, I don't rate him" .. says Brighton fan.
Whooosh ....
Out of nowhere, without warning, one of the Millwall had produced a bicycle chain and whipped the Brighton fan two or three times right across the side of his face.
Poor guy was lying on the terrace with blood pouring out of his cheek and the Millwall thugs just ambled off. Not another word was spoken by them as they went.
I must admit pre-segregation 1960's I saw some Blackburn fans and Carlisle fans being attacked at The Ilderton Road End which was bad and I still remember those 2 incidents 40+ years later.
The above incident is disgraceful and one can hope for "What goes round comes round" and that they, eventually, got involved with the wrong people.
Lets hope so.
Millwall was extremely fervent though and topically I recall the Play-Off 2nd Leg against Albion at The Den after Albion won the 1st Leg 4/1.
When Milwall scored to lead 1/0 at half-time in the 2nd leg it was electrifying and Millwall lost 1/6 on aggregate, eventually.
I might be really stupid here.
Boca v River Plate is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest derby in the world right?
If it isthe right game then these two teams going at it is the best derby, with the best atmosphere and the best supporters in the world bar none. This country couldn't even compete with our pathetic rivalries to this war.
If its not the right two teams, then ignore this
Was going to say Stoke. Also Norwich are bloody loud, even when Delia isn't getting em going.