Millwall FC

3 minutes ago, Palfy said:

Fair play mate proper old school I’m 59 and still think I’m 19, so like me you remember the good old days of the 70s and 80s, I don’t live a million miles from you in Swindon moved here when I was 3 and went to must home games and a lot of away from around 72-82, we used to love it when we had your lot West Ham Pompey and Cardiff it was still a working mans game then some of the best years of my footballing life and there was a real buzz going to match on Saturday with load of ya mates. 

I think the youth of today would have a heart attack if they went to football in the 70's / 80's. No CCTV,  trouble in grounds you'd least expect, every team had it's madmen, if you acted up the worst you would get is a kicking from the OB then slung out. Yet we'd think nothing of travelling up & down the country week in, week out knowing it was definitely going to go off before, during & after.

Strangely, I miss it. In the sanitised world football of today,  anything happens and bods film it to stick it on youtube instead of wading in to sort it out. 

I am 56, married with 4 kids & 2 grandchildren

12 minutes ago, Finn balor said:

Welcome millwall I always remember watching Everton when I was a kid and you had sheringham and cascarino up top and that ale house footballer terry hurlock. I always have an afinity just because of Cahill. Proper footballer 

Hurlock is a legend, still goes to most matches and is often seen in pubs near the ground on a match day. Don't think he ever has to buy a pint!

Cahill will always be loved. Pretty sure you will know but he has a Millwall & an Everton tattoo

Whether some will admit it or not, most I know respect Everton as a proper, old school football club, Portsmouth are another Not too many about these days, most are happy clappy sold their soul to the corporate man. Clappers for example have no place whatsoever in football. 

Millwall, these days is the only place that I hear that lovely old chant - Lino lino you're a c*nt (not sure if swearing is permitted on here, it is on all of our boards)

32 minutes ago, MikeO said:

That's curious because we were in a sort of similar situation a few years back and a lot of fans kicked off about us moving to Kirkby (which is outside of Liverpool), plus the fact that we've never actually played in Everton. Like Gwlad said above Millwall as an area is definitely East End but you identify as south west, does that mean you have no allegiance to Millwall as a place? If you win things where does the open top bus parade go?

Not taking the piss at all here I'm just interested because it's stuff I didn't know.

If we win things - ha ha ha, we know we'll never win anything at all, but that's OK. Football to most of us is about mates, a day on the piss and having a laugh. 

We are South East, not South West - there is a big difference. South West London is very affluent, Wimbledon tennis is SW London.

The actual place Millwall, is on the isle of dogs. It's just nostalgia. Most of our history has now gone, we moved south of the river to The Den in 1910. There is a pub called The Lord Nelson on the island that is still standing. Our first ever ground was behind it. A few will still have a tour about the place but there is no real connection - apart from the name of course.

The ground is in Bermondsey - SE16, If we ever did win anything that's where we would have a parade.

21 minutes ago, MikeO said:

Fair enough, I was only going by my own perceptions so I bow to your local knowledge.

2,200 might be standard allocation but in the FA Cup away teams are usually entitles to 15% of seats, we always adhere to that hence Lincoln had 5/6000 at Goodison in the third round.  "It's to stop fans clashing on the pitch" but that doesn't stop it happening anywhere else as far as I know, why should our fans be penalised for your fans reputation? If changes need to be made due to police and security worries because of Millwall fans rep then penalising Millwall surely makes more sense, reduce your allocation and give us our dues

Works both ways, we rarely get our full allocation for Cup games, especially against "bigger" teams.  West Ham in the League Cup in 2009 we should have been given up to 12,000 - our allocation was 1,500

100% nailed on you wouldn't have given us 6,000 had it been at your place. 

We did, but moved over 100 years ago. You'll not find a single Millwall fan that would ever describe us as East London

Millwall is NOT East London, we are South East London, (as are Charlton) a  huge difference. Brentford, Fulham, QPR & Chelsea would describe themselves as West London. 

2,200 is standard allocation for away fans. You're housed in your own 2 tiered stand and you'll only get the upper tier. Very rarely are teams allocated the lower tier, even if their is demand. It's to stop fans clashing on the pitch