Well-Known Member Mar 30, 2020 #22 mdingwall said: We had a thread about the Millwall docu on the old Footymad messageboard - Harry the Dog drunk himself to death, Billy Plummer moves to a town on the coast and committed suicide just before his daughters wedding, Bobby the Wolf (of "dirty Northern ponce" fame) is still with us and attending games. Director : All of us who lived out those days will, I am sure, never forget them. Everyone can go about their business and act as if nothing really happened. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2021. Soulboy Great post Mike. Megson wasn't steady though was he, he was taking us straight down, Negative, boring and shit as well as alienating half the players and three quarters if the fan base is quite something else, It appears fashionable for folk to try to rewrite history though. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Flowers; 18. [citation needed] A local newspaper, East Ham Echo, reported that, "From the very first kick of the ball it was seen likely to be some trouble, but the storm burst when Dean and Jarvis came into collision (Millwall had two players sent off during the match). The Nightmare Returns: The Violent Story of Britain's Most Prolific Football Hooligan and Combat 18's Top Boy. [4], The BBC documentary Panorama was invited into the club by Millwall in 1977 to show the hooligan reputation was a myth and being blown out of proportion by reporting. Knew the face can't remember his name was a bit older than us. West Ham were fined 115,000, an amount seen as an insult by Millwall, which staunchly defended the actions of its own fans and the club's inability to do any more than it had for a match at a rival's ground. 27 February 2015 Dr Desperate Harry appears at 2:00 and 15:04 in the above YouTube clip, and with the rest of F Troop at 30:15 ("Bobby The Wolf, Harry The Dog, Mad Pat and Winkle piled into the bus") 27 February 2015 Bobby SVARC [26], In January 2009, hundreds of Millwall fans perceived as "high risk" individuals gained access to an FA Cup fourth-round match away at Hull City. [12][13], On 11 March 1978 a riot broke out at The Den during an FA Cup quarter-final between Millwall and Ipswich Town, with the home team losing 61. Please try again. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. [27] On 25 August 2009, Millwall played away at West Ham United in the Football League Cup, losing 31 after extra time. 2 weeks later he did, there was around 18 of them!. We had a thread about the Millwall docu on the old Footymad messageboard - Harry the Dog drunk himself to death, Billy Plummer moves to a town on the coast and committed suicide just before his daughters wedding, Bobby the Wolf (of dirty Northern ponce fame) is still with us and attending games. This is the story of one mans rise to the very top of the hooligan fraternity, and the bloody means he took to achieve it. [33] Other examples of this include archive footage of their hooligan element's past bad behaviour being shown, when disorder has occurred at other grounds, not involving them. It was a different world back then. That is understandable to a point. Loved early to mid 80s The millwall game remember them just before kick off giving it some and getting run out of the west.into the north and setting fire to everything they could . For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. In the last episode of the series Bobby gets his revenge on the Wolf for last week's grilling and the Wolf lays down a chilling challenge for the current top. But isnt that an indication of quality? Overcrowding on the terrace holding the Millwall fans forced police to open security gates to allow supporters onto the pitch side to avoid a crush in the oversold terrace. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. His departing words were that he was one of Harry Trixies (Harry the Dog) mob, and he'd get them all down here to turn us over. Long story, but in Oct 1974, 7 of us got ambushed by him & his mob on the top deck of a bus. Early 80's without a doubt. , Language Because of their heritage, everything Millwall supporters do is amplified in a negative manner. Bobby the Wolf: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Football Hooligan, and the West Ham's Intercity Firm's Top Boy Paperback - 20 Feb. 2022 by EWAN RILAD (Author) 1 rating See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited 0.99 to buy Paperback 4.99 1 New from 4.99 Sign up for a new account in our community. Posted by chalmetteowl on 1/29/21 at 8:01 pm to S. quote: How did we miss Cardiff hiring Mick? 15. how to save a picture on laptop without mouse. Poor Millwall. For anyone that knows football - that is a penalty. Kelvin MacKenzie, an enemy of football, liked to bask in the reflected toughness during his heyday at The Sun. Unable to add item to List. JavaScript is disabled. The Wolves fans lobbed quite a few darts into our side that day. I am 60 next year and i try to explain to my grandson (also Chelsea) what it was like back in the day,but you had to be there.CBL was definately one of the moodiest of places i visited. In the same year, a referee was attacked and the FA ordered the club to erect fences around The Den's terracing. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. One thing Cafu isnt afraid to do is put a shift in and his work rate was a real bonus against Millwall. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Dag. geezer with sun glasses?? We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. Brentford's goalkeeper Chic Brodie picked it up, inspected it and threw it into his goal. , Language Remember that infamous documentary well. Clearly a psychopath, Bobby did not hesitate to punch, kick, headbutt or shoot anybody who got in his way. [34] During a game between Millwall and Huddersfield Town, The Observer reported that a Huddersfield Town fan had thrown a coin at a linesman, and that some Millwall fans had intervened, and handed the culprit over to police. Thats about as i remember it too. Please try your request again later. Managed to get out of this place, but it was scary there and no Old Bill to be seen for miles. : , Publisher While we try to keep adverts as unobtrusive as possible without pop ups, we need to run ad's to make sure we can stay online and continue to keep the forum up, as over the years costs have become very high. : 10:19 EST 29 Nov 2007 OrCity Centre why the special always got taken to theStation near the ground. The BBC set the tone early when the narrator suggested: Millwall is more than a football club, its a way of life. Has anyone ever seen the documentary about Millwall hooligans from 1977? - Free Online Library", "Hull to bill Millwall for damage to stand", "Former Millwall striker Gavin Grant guilty of murder", "The Book of Football The Start of No One Likes Us", "FA Cup semi-final: Sunderland 0 1 Millwall | Football | The Guardian", "FA Cup: Fans arrested after Millwall violence", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Millwall_Bushwackers&oldid=1134009448, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox criminal organization with ethnicity or ethnic makeup parameters, Pages using infobox criminal organization with rivals parameter, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 15:38. Never experienced anything like it and i was a kid at the time really. Then walked through all the side streets without making too much noice. Upload or insert images from URL. Sunderland in the Milk Cup, home and away and by all accounts at Parsons Green, Tottenham in 1978 I was at Seven Sisters and we did really well, and Upton Park in 1981 which rarely gets mentioned. It's easy! Millwall has changed a lot since the days of Harry the Dog, Bobby the Wolf and the hooligan firms of the 70s . There was fighting inside and outside the ground during the game between both sets of supporters, with one Millwall fan sustaining a broken jaw. This probably isnt the place to put this but WELL DONE LE ARSE FOR BEATING SPUDS AND,,,, ERM,,,,,ARRANGING THEIR HORDINGS TO SUIT THE SPITE HART LANE SCENE Arsenal make me laugh, they had a crowd of 4,000 for s night match against Leeds in the old first division in 1966, piss poor for a top flight game. : North Stand Chat: the biggest and best Brighton & Hove Albion independent fan site - get involved!. Yeah, yeah we said and thought nothing of it. Still a tough place. Reply. I met him once. Am I Nearly There Yet? Millwalls letter to fans was weak, pathetic and not worthy of a club that has done fine work in the community over the years. For numbers I would say the 80s but pound for pound late 70s after we had been down in the second division a couple of seasons the Millwall experience made us better organised we came back to the first prepared to go to places we had nether been before mobbed up Manchester, Liverpool etc even going into and taking other London clubs ends North Bank Arsenal Boxing Day 1977 peaking with the firm we took to Spurs in August 1978 Good days. We didnt go behind the goal we were in fact on the side terrace . Bobby SVARC "Millwall You Will Die" 1/3/1971, Harry was still shitting yellow. Millwall in the Cup. January 25, 2013 in Terrace Talk, Not on telly, I fear it would be because villa would of took the piss out of the mighty wall on a satdy, it has and thats with only handful of villa, thats why ob made it friday night. "Bobby the Wolf, Harry the Dog, Mad Pat and Winkle. your username. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Violent incidents punctuate their history but a 1977 Panorama documentary elevated the notoriety of their fans to a different level. : : Bobby Robson, then manager of Ipswich, said of Millwall fans afterward, "They [the police] should have turned the flamethrowers on them". Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2021, Worst piece of fiction I have ever read,should have called it, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2020, I thought it was about harry the dog but the book is rubbish from the first page to the last. Was he the one with the longish frizzy hair who steamed into some home end on his own does anyone know? Millwall - Bobby the Wolf. "Trumpton FC's hooligans _____ "Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood." . Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. As leader of Millwalls notorious F-Troop during the 1970s, he was at the forefront of many of the fist fights, pitch battles and gang warfare that broke out between rival firms in that era, including at Eastville Stadium in Bristol where he single-handedly tore into Bristol Rovers firm, the Gas Hit Squad and began headbutting, kicking, punching and gouging the eyes out of every member of that pathetic little outfit who got in his way. Seven months later, three Liverpool fans received three-month prison sentences and a further two avoided prison sentences but received banning orders. but the thrill of turning up at some town un-escorted by Seor plod, going into the local pubs and having all the "banter", walking to the ground and thinking that our numbers were massive. [16] The then chairman Theo Paphitis responded that Millwall could not be blamed for the actions of a mindless minority who attach themselves to the club. 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