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Millwall Football Club ( ) [ 1 ] is a professional football clubhouse in Bermondsey, South East London, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the clubhouse has retained its diagnose despite having last played in the Millwall area of the Isle of Dogs in 1910. From then until 1993, the club played at what is now called The Old Den in New Cross, before moving to its current family stadium nearby, called The Den. The traditional club cap is a lion rampant, referred to in the team ‘s dub ‘The Lions ‘. Millwall ‘s traditional kit out consists of dark blue shirts, white shorts, and blue socks.

Reading: Millwall F.C.

Millwall was one of the founding members of the Southern League in 1894. They competed in it for 22 seasons until 1920, claiming the title twice in 1895 and 1896. Since joining the Football League in the 1920–21 season, the club have been promoted eleven times ( five times as champions in 1928, 1938, 1962, 1988, and 2001 ) and relegated nine times. They have spent 88 of their 94 seasons in the Football League yo-yoing between the irregular and one-third tiers. The baseball club did have a brief spell in the acme flight between 1988 and 1990, in which they achieved their highest ever league polish of one-tenth stead in the First Division in 1988–89. Millwall reached the 2004 FA Cup final examination and modify for Europe for the first clock in their history, playing in the UEFA Cup. The golf club have besides won two League One play-off finals in 2010 and 2017, the Football League Group Cup in 1983, and were Football League Trophy finalists in 1999. In the media, Millwall ‘s supporters have frequently been associated with vandalism, with numerous films having been made fictionalising their notoriety. The fans are renowned for their terrace chant “ No one likes us, we do n’t care “. Millwall have a long-standing competition with West Ham United. The local bowler hat between the two sides has been contested about a hundred times since 1899. The baseball club besides share a competition with Leeds United, and contest the South London derby with local rivals Crystal Palace and Charlton Athletic .

history [edit ]

Beginnings, Southern League and move : 1885–1919 [edit ]

[2] The first Millwall Rovers kit, worn by club repository Jasper Sexton in 1885. The club was founded as Millwall Rovers by the workers of J.T. Morton ‘s can and keep factory in the Millwall area of the Isle of Dogs in London ‘s East end in 1885. J.T. Morton was founded in Aberdeen in 1849 to supply sailing ships with food, the caller opened their first english cannery and food action plant at Millwall pier in 1872 and attracted a work force from across the country, including the east coast of Scotland, chiefly Dundee. The cabaret repository was 17-year-old Jasper Sexton, the son of the landlord of The Islander public house in Tooke Street where Millwall held their club meetings. [ 4 ] Millwall Rovers ‘ first repair was held on a slice of waste land on Glengall Road, on 3 October 1885 against Fillebrook, a team that played in Leytonstone. The newly formed team were beaten 5–0. Rovers found a better play open for the 1886–87 season, at the back of the Lord Nelson public house and it became known as the Lord Nelson Ground. In November 1886, the East End Football Association was formed, along with the Senior Cup Competition. Millwall made it to the concluding against London Caledonians, which was played at Leyton Cricket Ground. The meet finished 2–2 and the teams shared the cup for six months each. Millwall won the East London Senior Cup at the first attack. The clubhouse besides won the cup in the follow two years, and the trophy became their property. In April 1889, a resolution was passed for Millwall to drop “ Rovers ” from their list, and they began playing under the diagnose Millwall Athletic, inspired by their move to their new home The Athletic Grounds. They were founding members of the Southern Football League which they won for the first two years of its being, and were runners-up in its third base. During this menstruation the clubhouse was invited to join the Second Division of the Football League but the committee turned down the opportunity, partially due to the ask increase in travel expenses but besides to stay patriotic to the Southern League. They were forced to move to a new grate North Greenwich in 1901, as the Millwall Dock Company wanted to use their estate as a timberyard. Millwall Athletic reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup in 1900 and 1903, and were besides champions of the Western Football League in 1908 and 1909. On 10 October 1910, Millwall played their last game as an East London club against Woolwich Arsenal in the London Challenge Cup. Millwall won the game 1–0 in front of a crowd of 3000. Millwall moved to a new stadium, named The Den, in New Cross, South London in 1910. The clubhouse had previously occupied four different grounds in the 25 years since their formation in East London ; express expansion space on the Isle of Dogs meant The Lions had to move to boost back and attendances. The calculate cost of The Den was £10,000. The first match played at the new ground was on 22 October 1910 against reigning Southern League champions Brighton & Hove Albion, who won 1–0 .
Millwall, who had now besides dropped “ athletic ” from their name, were invited to join the Football League in 1920 for the 1920–21 season, along with 22 other clubs, through the initiation of the new Football League Third Division. The Southern League was shorn of its condition, with about all its clubs deciding to leave—Millwall adopt courtship. Millwall ‘s first Football League match was on 28 August 1920 at The Den, and they were 2–0 winners against Bristol Rovers. In the 1925–26 season Millwall had 11 consecutive scavenge sheets, a Football League record, which they hold jointly with York City and Reading. Millwall became known as a hard-fighting Cup team and competed in versatile memorable matches, notably defeating three-time league winners and reigning champions Huddersfield Town 3–1 in the third base round of the 1926–27 FA Cup. [ 17 ] In the 1927–28 season Millwall won the Third Division South title and scored 87 goals at home in the league, an English record which still stands. Matches against Sunderland and Derby County saw backpack crowd of 48,000-plus in the 1930s and 1940s. Their 1937 FA Cup run saw Millwall reach the semi-finals for the third clock, and a fifth-round game against Derby however stands as Millwall ‘s record attendance of 48,762. [ 17 ] Millwall were the 11th best supported team in England in 1939, despite being in the Second Division. Millwall were one of the most financially affluent clubs in England. The baseball club proposed plans to improve the Den and signed international players. [ 20 ] Winger Reg ‘JR ‘ Smith was capped doubly, scoring two goals for England in 1938. [ 21 ] The Lions were pushing for promotion to the First Division toward the end of the ten, but one workweek into the 1939–40 season, World War II broke out and Millwall were robbed of their aim. [ 20 ]

Wartime doldrums and delegating to fourth tier : 1940–1965 [edit ]

annual table positions of Millwall in the Football League, 1920–2019. On 7 April 1945, Millwall appeared in a Football League War Cup final at Wembley Stadium against Chelsea, but because it was a wartime cup concluding it is not acknowledged in the record books. With the war in Europe in its last days, the number of spectators allowed to attend games was relaxed. The attendance was 90,000, the largest crowd Millwall have ever played in front of, which included King George VI, whom the team were introduced to before kick-off. [ 23 ] The loss of so many young men during the second World War made it difficult for clubs to retain their erstwhile condition. This was specially true for Millwall, who appeared to suffer more than most. From being one of the nation ‘s biggest club before the war, Millwall were reduced to one of its smallest subsequently. The Den sustained severe bomb damage on 19 April 1943, and one workweek late a fire, determined to have been caused by a discard cigarette, besides destroyed an entire stand. The club accepted offers from neighbours Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace and West Ham United to stage games at their grounds. On 24 February 1944, Millwall returned to The Den, to play in an all-standing stadium. This was achieved with considerable unpaid parturiency by Lions fans. Millwall ‘s fortunes fluctuated in the immediate station war years, they were relegated to Division Three South in 1948 and had to apply for re-election to the league in 1950 after finishing in the bottom two. An upswing in fortunes saw Millwall finish 5th, 4th, and then runners up in Division Three South in 1952–53 season ; but with only the Champions being promoted, Millwall found themselves stuck in the third gear tier despite averaging push of over 20,000. Millwall then suffered a down swing in fortunes with a number of bottom-half finishes. One highlight of the period was one of the biggest giant-killing upsets in the Fourth Round of the 1956–57 FA Cup on 26 January 1957, when Millwall beat Newcastle United 2–1 in front of a crowd of 45,646. Millwall suffered the ill luck of becoming a establish penis of Division Four in 1958. While initially suffering from this reorganization, the de-regionalisation of Third Division North and Third Division South opened up the direction for promotion via the runner up spots. Millwall won the Division Four Title in 1962 with the help oneself of 23 Goals from Peter Burridge and 22 from Dave Jones. They were relegated again in the 1963–64 season, but were to bounce binding by winning back-to-back promotions as runner up. This is the last clock Millwall played in the fourth tier .

Unbeaten dwelling criminal record and the class of ’71 : 1966–1987 [edit ]

late in the ten, Millwall established a record of 59 home games without defeat ( 43 wins and 16 draws ) from 22 August 1964 to 14 January 1967. During this go, Millwall played 55 unlike teams, kept 35 blank sheets, scored 112 goals and conceded 33. [ 27 ] This was thanks largely to managers Billy Gray, who laid the foundations, and Benny Fenton, a early musician who continued to build on Gray ‘s side. All the players, which included winger Barry Rowan, goalkeeper Alex Stepney and strikers Hugh Curran and Len Julians, were presented with a commemorative gold cigarette easy by the Football Association. [ 27 ] The record was finally broken by Liverpool, who were unbeaten for 63 games at home between 1978 and 1981. [ 27 ] In the early 1970s, the Millwall team included many celebrated and memorable players, now remembered by some fans as “ The class of ’71 ”. This was a team that included ; goalkeeper Bryan King, defender Harry Cripps, goalscoring midfielder Derek Possee, Millwall ‘s most capped external player to date, Eamon Dunphy [ 28 ] and the club ‘s longest serving player, Barry Kitchener. They missed out on promotion to Division One by one point. [ 30 ] By remaining unbeaten at home in Division Two for the 1971–72 season, Millwall became the entirely golf club to go through an entire season without losing a match at home in four different divisions 1927–28 Division Three South, 1964–65 Division Four, 1965–66 Division Three and 1971–72 Division Two. In 1974, Millwall hosted the first game to be played on a Sunday against Fulham. The Lions reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup in 1974, and again in 1977. [ 32 ] George Graham managed Millwall from 1983 to 1986, and during that time he guided the club to a Football League Group Cup win, beating Lincoln City 3–2 in the concluding in the 1982–83 temper. [ 33 ] The 1984–85 season was peculiarly successful, Millwall reached the FA Cup quarter-finals and gained promotion to the Second Division, going unbeaten at home again in Division Three, winning 18 games and drawing five. [ 34 ] In the FA Cup they were beaten 1–0 by First Division Luton Town at Kenilworth Road. The pit is remembered for all the wrong reasons, after hooligans rioted at the plot. 81 people ( including 31 police officers ) were injured in the disturbances. [ 35 ]

promotion to top tier, raw stadium and administration : 1988–2000 [edit ]

Graham ‘s replacement was glaswegian John Docherty. In his irregular season as coach, Millwall won the Second Division championship and gained forwarding to the top flight of English football for the first prison term in the club ‘s history. [ 37 ] Starting the 1988–89 season powerfully, Millwall topped the league on 1 October 1988 having played six games ( winning four and drawing two ) and rarely slipped out of the top five before Christmas. This was chiefly due to Tony Cascarino and Teddy Sheringham, who scored 99 goals between them in three seasons playing together. Millwall ‘s beginning peak class season ended with a tenth-place eat up, which was the lowest plaza occupied by the club all season. The postdate season, they briefly led the league for one night in September 1989 after beating Coventry City 4–1, but won entirely two more games all season and were relegated in twentieth place at the end of the 1989–90 season. fair before relegation was confirmed, Docherty was sacked and replaced by ex- Middlesbrough coach Bruce Rioch. Striker Teddy Sheringham, who late played for England and was the highest-scoring actor throughout the Football League in the 1990–91 season, [ 42 ] was sold to Nottingham Forest for £2 million after Millwall ‘s 6–2 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion in the second Division play-offs. [ 43 ] Rioch left Millwall in 1992 to be succeeded by irish defender Mick McCarthy. McCarthy guided Millwall to third rate in the newly Division One at the end of the 1993–94 season. [ 44 ] This was their first season at a new grind, at first known as The New Den ( to distinguish it from its harbinger ) but now called just The Den, which was opened by the Labour party drawing card John Smith on 4 August 1993. [ 45 ] The newly crunch was the first all-seater stadium to be built in England after the Taylor report on the Hillsborough disaster. [ 46 ] The Lions knocked Arsenal out of the 1994–95 FA Cup in a third-round play back, beating them 2–0 at Highbury. [ 47 ] They besides reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup in 1995. [ 32 ] Millwall lost 5–1 on aggregate to Derby County in the play-off semi-finals that lapp 1994–95 season, in a tie blighted by crowd trouble. [ 4 ] McCarthy resigned to take charge of the Republic of Ireland national team on 5 February 1996, shortly after Millwall had been knocked off the top of the Division One table by Sunderland, following a 6–0 frustration. [ 44 ] Jimmy Nicholl of Raith Rovers was appointed as McCarthy ‘s successor, but could not reverse the slump in form which saw Millwall relegated at the end of the 1995–96 temper in 22nd place. [ 4 ] Just five months earlier they had been top of Division One, but nowadays Millwall found themselves in the third tier for the 1996–97 season. The clubhouse experienced severe fiscal difficulties that resulted in them being placed in fiscal government for a short time. [ 4 ] Nicholl was relieved of his duties and John Docherty returned on a short-run basis to stabilise the club. [ 4 ] Millwall came out of administration, and new chair Theo Paphitis appointed ex-West Ham United coach Billy Bonds as coach. [ 48 ] The 1997–98 season was not a successful one, with the clubhouse hovering close to delegating to the fourthly tier. Bonds was sacked and replaced by Keith “ Rhino ” Stevens, with Alan McLeary as his adjunct. McLeary was later promoted to the role of joint-manager aboard Stevens. [ 4 ] Stevens and McLeary led Millwall to their first ever official appearance at Wembley Stadium. [ 4 ] The Lions reached the 1999 Football League Trophy Final with a gold goal win against Gillingham in the semi-finals, and a 2–1 aggregate victory over Walsall in the regional final. They faced Wigan Athletic in the final examination but, while playing in front of 49,000 of their own fans, lost 1–0 to an injury-time finish. [ 49 ] Millwall besides lost 1–0 on sum to Wigan in the second Division play-off semi-finals the 1999–2000 season. [ 49 ]
Mark McGhee was named as Millwall ‘s modern director in September 2000, and eight months late the cabaret won promotion as Division Two champions, with the team built by Keith Stevens, after five years in the one-third tier of the league. [ 4 ] They finished with 93 points, a club record. [ 50 ] Winning the beginning match of the 2001–02 season 4–0 at home to Norwich City set the team up well for a good year, in which Millwall qualified for the Division One play-offs, but lost to eventual winners Birmingham City 2–1 in the semi-finals. Millwall finished mid-table in the 2002–03 temper and McGhee was sacked soon after the begin of the 2003–04 season. [ 51 ] In 2003, Dennis Wise, ex-Chelsea and England player, became caretaker, and subsequently permanent player-manager, of the golf club. In his first temper in charge Wise led the club to the first FA Cup Final in their history. [ 52 ] When Millwall took to the airfield at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff they were only the second team from outside the circus tent fledge to play in the Cup final since 1982, and were the first team from outside the Premier League to reach the final since the foundation of the top tier in 1992. [ 53 ] The golf club was missing 16 players from their team due to suspension or injury. They played the Cup final on 22 May 2004, losing 3–0 to Manchester United. [ 54 ] As United had already qualified for the UEFA Champions League, Millwall were assured of playing in the UEFA Cup. Midfielder Curtis Weston, substituted for Wise with one moment of normal time remaining, became the youngest Cup final player in history at 17 years 119 days, beating the 125-year-old record of James F. M. Prinsep. [ 55 ] In the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, Millwall lost 4–2 on aggregate in the first round proper to hungarian champions Ferencváros, with Wise scoring both Millwall ‘s goals .

agitation, constancy and inaugural play-off achiever : 2005–2013 [edit ]

In 2005, Theo Paphitis announced that he was stepping down as president of the clubhouse with Jeff Burnige to replace him from May 2005. [ 58 ] At the end of the 2004–05 season, director Dennis Wise announced that he was leaving as he was unable to form a running kinship with the new president. [ 52 ] Former Millwall striker Steve Claridge was announced as the newfangled player-manager of Millwall. however, when Burnige then stepped down just two months after taking up the mail, it was announced on 27 July that Claridge had been sacked after equitable 36 days, without always taking charge of the team in a competitive match. [ 59 ] Former Wolverhampton Wanderers director Colin Lee replaced him but lasted only five months in charge of the club. [ 59 ] On 21 December, with the club bottom of the Championship, he became the club ‘s Director of Football and was replaced as coach by 32-year-old actor Dave Tuttle, on a short-run compress until the end of the 2005–06 season. [ 60 ] Tuttle had no prior have in football management. In February 2006, Lee left the club all in all. Millwall experienced a unmanageable season, having had four managers in 2005. Their 13 goals scored at home was the second bad in Football League history. Their relegation to League One was confirmed on 17 April 2006 with a 2–0 loss against Southampton. In the close season Nigel Spackman was appointed as the new director, but he lasted lone four months after a string of bad results. [ 61 ] In September 2006, Theo Paphitis ( president from 1997 to 2005 ) ended his nine-year association with the club after a year-long while as a non-executive director. [ 62 ] On 19 March 2007, Willie Donachie signed a biennial contract following some progress which had seen the clubhouse climb to 11th home in the league. [ 63 ] Before Donachie took charge, Millwall had taken merely six points from their first ten games. In the 2007–08 season Millwall sat bottom of the table at the begin of October. Donachie was sacked on 8 October, with Richard Shaw and Colin West becoming caretaker managers. [ 63 ] In March 2007, Chestnut Hill Ventures, led by American John Berylson, which have interests in occupation and fiscal services, retail, property and frolic, invested £5 million into the clubhouse. The continue investment of Berylson, who has since become the club ‘s major stockholder and chair, [ 64 ] has steered The Lions on a better naturally on and off the sales talk. The appointment of Kenny Jackett as coach on 6 November 2007, proving crucial. [ 65 ] Over the path of the adjacent two seasons Jackett led Millwall to two circus tent six finishes in League One, in fifth and third place respectively. He won the League One Manager of the Month award three times while in charge of the baseball club. [ 66 ] Several of his key signings helped propel Millwall toward the play-offs, and eventual promotion. After a play-off final frustration in the 2008–09 season against Scunthorpe United and losing out on automatic promotion on the last day of the 2009–10 temper to Leeds United by one point, Millwall made it back to Wembley, last breaking the play-off hoodoo run of five consecutive failures in 1991, 1994, 2000, 2002 and 2009, with a 1–0 winnings in the 2010 League One play-off final examination against Swindon Town, securing a return to the Football League Championship after a four-year absence. [ 57 ] Millwall ‘s inaugural crippled back in the Championship was a 3–0 away win at Bristol City. The plot had been much hyped due to City ‘s sign of then-England goalkeeper David James. Only days after the kill, Steve Coppell resigned as City director. [ 67 ] The Lions celebrated the hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary of the club on 2 October 2010, which was the closest home game date to the first repair Millwall always played against Fillebrook on 3 October 1885. Millwall drew 1–1 with Burnley and wore a limited one-off kit out for the game, made by manufacturers Macron, which bore the names of every football player who had played for the clubhouse. [ 68 ] Kenny Jackett celebrated five years in charge of the baseball club in November 2012, with a 4–1 victory away at Nottingham Forest. [ 69 ] After a strong start to the 2012–13 temper, including a 13-game unbeaten run and flirt with the play-offs, [ 70 ] Millwall finished ill, with alone five wins in the survive 23 games, narrowly avoiding relegation on the last day of the season. [ 71 ] Their poor league shape coincided with reaching the semi-final of the FA Cup for the fifth time in their history. [ 72 ] They played Wigan Athletic at Wembley Stadium on 14 April 2013, losing 2–0 to the eventual cup winners. [ 73 ] Kenny Jackett resigned on 7 May 2013. [ 74 ] He was Millwall ‘s fourth-longest service director. [ 75 ] After a calendar month of searching, Millwall appointed St Johnstone boss Steve Lomas as their newfangled director on 6 June 2013. [ 76 ] His appointee provoked blend emotions among some supporters, ascribable to him being a erstwhile captain of West Ham United, their biggest rival. [ 77 ] Club record goalscorer Neil Harris returned to Millwall as a coach on 23 June 2013 after retiring as a actor through injury. [ 78 ] Millwall sacked Lomas on 26 December 2013, after winning lone five of his first 22 games in charge. [ 79 ] Harris and youth team coach Scott Fitzgerald took over as joint caretaker-managers. [ 79 ] On 4 January 2014 Millwall lost 4–1 at Southend United in the FA Cup, a team 31 places below them in the football pyramid. Harris described the performance as a “ shambles. ” [ 80 ]

FA Cup giant-killers and fifth trip to Wembley in eight years : 2014–present [edit ]

The club appointed Ian Holloway as their modern coach on 6 January 2014, with the baseball club sitting 21st in the Championship table. He was given the priority of maintaining their Football League Championship condition, which he achieved. Millwall went unbeaten in the last eight games of the 2013–14 season and finished in 19th place, four points above the relegation zone. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] The following season, Holloway was sacked on 10 March 2015 with the team second from bottom in the Championship, and Neil Harris was reinstated as caretaker coach until the end of the season. [ 83 ] He was unable to ensure survival, however, as Millwall ‘s relegation to League One was confirmed on 28 April with one game of the 2014–15 season even to play. [ 84 ] Harris was confirmed as Millwall ‘s permanent wave director the adjacent day. [ 85 ] In his beginning wax season in blame, Harris led Millwall to a fourth-place finish in League One and a play-off final at Wembley, which the Lions lost 3–1 to Barnsley. [ 86 ] In the 2016–17 FA Cup, Millwall reached the Quarter-finals for the tenth time in their history, knocking out Premier League opposition in three straight rounds : Bournemouth in the third base round, Watford in the fourth round, and reigning Premier League champions Leicester City in the fifth round. [ 87 ] On 28 February 2017, Millwall beat Peterborough United 1–0 and increased their unbeaten run to 16 games in all competitions, and have gone nine games without conceding a finish for the first time since the 1925–26 season. [ 88 ] Millwall made it to the League One play-off final at Wembley for the second consecutive year, after beating Scunthorpe United 3–2 in the semi-final. They were promoted back to the Championship following a 1–0 playoff final victory over Bradford City, thanks to an 85th-minute winner from Steve Morison, his 86th finish for the club. [ 89 ] In Millwall ‘s return to the Championship in the 2017–18 season the team went on a club criminal record 17-game unbeaten campaign ; their longest streak in the second tier, which surpassed a record of 15 set in 1971. [ 90 ] During the undefeated function they won six off wins in a row, equalling a club record set in the 2008–09 season. [ 91 ] In the 2018–19 FA Cup, Millwall once again reached the Quarter-finals for an 11th time, merely losing to Premier League side Brighton on penalties. In the previous round they knocked out Premier League side Everton, to equal Southampton ‘s FA Cup ‘Giant-killings ‘ record, having knocked out 25 top-flight teams when not in the acme flight themselves. [ 92 ] On 3 October 2019, Neil Harris resigned as Millwall director with the club sitting in 18th identify with two wins from their beginning ten Championship games. [ 93 ] Harris led Millwall to Wembley twice, with one promotion, and two FA Cup quarter-finals during his tenure. [ 93 ] He was the Lions fifth longest-serving coach, having spent four and a half years at the club. [ 75 ] On 21 October, he was replaced by former Stoke City boss Gary Rowett, who beat his former club 2–0 in his very first crippled in cathexis. [ 94 ] The 2019–20 season ended in an 8th-placed polish, after a late play-off political campaign came astir short. The following temper the club finished 11th, in Rowett ‘s first base full season at the helm .

Colours, crest and dub [edit ]

Kit [edit ]




[2] Millwall Rovers first home kit from their 1885–86 season, which the team tire for the 125-year anniversary of the club in the 2010–11 season [2] The jump lion has been on the clubhouse ‘s crest from 1979 to 1999, and from 2007 to present. This version was used from 1992 to 1994. Millwall ‘s traditional kit has predominantly consisted of blue shirts, white shorts and aristocratic socks throughout their 125-year history. [ 2 ] For the first 50 years, astir until 1936, they played in a traditional dark blue blue, similar to the color of Scotland national team. [ 2 ] This color was chosen because it paid court to the scottish roots of the club, with the nucleus of the beginning Millwall Rovers squad being from Dundee. In 1936, newly appointed Millwall director Charlie Hewitt opted to change the kit color from dark blue blue to a lighter royal aristocratic, and the team have played in this color for the best part of 74 years, with the exception of 1968–75 and 1999–2001, in which the team played in an all-white strip. [ 2 ] Their kit for the 2010–11 season celebrated the hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary of the club, with Millwall adopting the dark dark blue bluing of their first deprive. [ 97 ] The club has retained this color since. [ 2 ] As for deepen colours, white shirts and blue shorts or yellow shirts and black shorts have been the Lions primary away colours. They have besides played in red and total darkness stripes, all grey, all orange, all red, and green and white stripes. Millwall wore a special one-off camouflage kit to commemorate the centennial of the First World War against Brentford on 8 November 2014. It went on sale to fans, with proceeds going to Headley Court, a rehabilitation center for hurt members of the british Armed Forces. [ 98 ]

badge [edit ]

The club peak has been a rampant lion since 1936, which was besides introduced by Charlie Hewitt. There have been many variations of the lion ; the first was a single crimson leo, much mistakenly said to be chosen because of the club ‘s scottish roots. [ 99 ] The leo bore a fall upon resemblance to signs used by public house named The Red Lion. [ 99 ] From 1956 to 1974 Millwall ‘s crest was two leap red lions facing each other. [ 2 ] Former chair Theo Paphitis brought back the badge in 1999, where it was used for a foster eight years. The current cap is a leap leo, which inaugural appeared on a Millwall kit in 1979. [ 2 ] It remained until 1999 and was reintroduce again in 2007. [ 2 ] The cabaret mascot is a giant lion called Zampa, named after Zampa Road, the road The Den is located on. [ 100 ]

The Lions [edit ]

The team nickname is The Lions, previously The Dockers. [ 102 ] The original Dockers name rebel from the job of many of the clubhouse ‘s supporters in the early on 1900s. The club did not like the nickname and changed the dub after weight-lift headlined Millwall as ‘Lions of the South ‘, after knocking Football League leaders Aston Villa out of the 1899–1900 FA Cup. Millwall, then a Southern League side, went on to reach the semi-final. The club adopted the motto : We Fear No Foe Where E’er We Go. [ 104 ] In the 2000s the club started to recognise its alone connection with London ‘s docks by introducing Dockers ‘ Days, and archiving the club ‘s dock roots in the Millwall FC Museum. [ 105 ] Dockers ‘ Days bring together past successful Millwall teams who parade on the peddle at half-time. Supporters who were dockers are allowed to attend the plot for free. [ 105 ] In 2011, Millwall officially named the east stand of The Den as the ‘Dockers Stand ‘ in honor of the clubhouse ‘s early nickname. [ 106 ]
For the 2013–14 season, Millwall chose the jacob’s ladder Prostate Cancer UK to sponsor their shirt for free. [ 107 ]
[2] 1936–39 strip. The first change of color from navy bluing to royal blue. This was the first appearance of the lion rampant crest on the kit . [2] The two red lions first appeared on the Millwall crown in 1956 .

Stadiums [edit ]

history [edit ]

A junior Lions day at The Den in 1988 Millwall began life on the Isle of Dogs and inhabited four different grounds in the club ‘s first 25 years. Their first home was a objet d’art of thriftlessness ground called Glengall Road, where they only stayed for one year. From 1886 to 1890 they played behind The Lord Nelson public house on East Ferry Road, which was known as the Lord Nelson Ground, before being forced to leave by the landlady, who received a better offer for its manipulation. They moved to their third gear home, The Athletic Grounds, on 6 September 1890. This was their first purpose-built anchor, with a grandstand that seated 600 people and an overall capacity of between 10,000 and 15,000. The club was forced to move on again though, this time by the Millwall Dock Company who wanted to use it as a timberyard. They relocated in 1901 to a localization near their second home, which became known as North Greenwich. They remained an east London club for a far nine years, with the last game played on the Isle of Dogs on 8 October 1910 against Portsmouth, which Millwall won 3–1. On 22 October 1910, Millwall crossed the river to South London, moving to Cold Blow Lane in New Cross. The fifth ground was called The Den, built at a cost of £10,000 by note football reason architect Archibald Leitch. The first game played there was against Brighton & Hove Albion, which Brighton won 1–0. Millwall remained there for 83 years, until moving to their sixth and current ground, at first known as The New Den but immediately called merely The Den, on 4 August 1993. The ground has an all-seated capacity of 20,146. [ 108 ] A Sporting Lisbon team, managed by Bobby Robson helped open the grind by playing a friendly, which The Lions lost 2–1. [ 4 ] [ 104 ]
A panoramic view of The Den from the upper Dockers Stand.[106] A panorama view of The Den from behind the players tunnel in the lower Barry Kitchener Stand.

Bermondsey renovation controversy [edit ]

In September 2016 Lewisham Council approved a compulsory purchase order ( CPO ) of estate surrounding The Den rented by Millwall, as character of a major renovation of the “ New Bermondsey ” area. The plans were controversial because the developer, Renewal, is controlled by offshore companies with indecipherable ownership, and is seen by the cabaret and local community to be profiteering by demolishing existing homes and businesses adenine well as Millwall ‘s car-park and the Millwall Community Trust adeptness to build up to 2,400 new individual homes, with no social house. The club contemplated the possibility of having to relocate to Kent. Millwall had submitted their own plans for regeneration centred around the club itself, but the council voted in favor of Renewal ‘s plans. [ 109 ] In December 2016 Private Eye reported how Renewal had been founded by a erstwhile Lewisham Council drawing card and aged military officer, suggesting electric potential diagonal, and that the decisiveness to approve Renewal ‘s plans may have been made as far back as 2013 despite the fact that no due diligence had been able to be carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers ascribable to “ poor ” and “ specify ” access to information and management at Renewal, which is controlled from the Isle of Man and British Virgin Islands. [ 110 ] In the expression of mounting community opposition and media examination, the Council said in January 2017 it will not proceed with the CPO. [ 111 ] however, it was late reported to be taking legal advice regarding other avenues of securing the CPO, and Council cabinet members will decide how to proceed after a “ review ”. Private Eye reported that Millwall are continuing to explore resettlement options in Kent. [ 112 ]

traditional songs [edit ]

A custom at The Den is the play of the official cabaret song [ 113 ] “ Let ’em Come ”, by Roy Green, as Millwall and the opposing team walk onto the pitch. It was specifically written for the club and the lyrics represent erstwhile London polish, such as eating jellify eels [ 114 ] and having a glass of beer before going to the game. The song ends with all home fans standing, arms raised ( normally in the direction of the travel fans singing the death agate line, “ Let ’em all … come down …. to The lair ! ” A television drama about a Millwall assistant and ex-docker, starring David Jason, featured a lyric from the song in its title, Come Rain Come Shine. The song was played on repeat at Wembley Stadium after Millwall gained promotion to the Championship in 2010. [ 115 ] The song “ Shoeshine Boy ” by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band was played as the entrance song before “ Let ’em Come ”. [ 116 ] early songs that have been regularly played at The Den over the years in the build-up to a game include “ London Calling “ by The Clash, “ No Surrender “ by Bruce Springsteen, “ Town Called Malice “ by The Jam and “ House of Fun “ by Madness, which features the lyric “ welcome to the leo ‘s den … ”. Status Quo ‘s cover version of “ Rockin ‘ All Over the World “ is played after every family win. [ 117 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

Millwall were listed eighth out of a list of 92 Football League clubs with the most rivals, with West Ham United, Leeds United, Crystal Palace, and Charlton Athletic considering them a major rival. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] Portsmouth, Everton and Gillingham besides share minor rivalries with Millwall, with vandalism between their fans dating back to the 1970s. [ 120 ] [ 118 ] [ 121 ]

major competition with West Ham United [edit ]

[122] West Ham and Millwall players shake hands before kick-off in 2011. Millwall ‘s fiercest rival is West Ham United. It is one of the most passionately contest local derbies in football. [ 123 ] The two clubs have rarely met in recent years due to them playing in different leagues ; the majority of their meetings happened before the first World War, with some 60 meetings between 1899 and 1915. The clubs have played 99 times since the first contest in 1899. Millwall have won 38, drawn 27 and lost 34. Despite ferocity between the two sets of supporters and calls for future games between the clubs to be played behind closed doors, they stopping point met in the Football League Championship in 2011–12 with no outright prohibition on either fix of fans, and no reprise of crowd trouble. [ 122 ] [ 126 ] The competition between the sides, specifically the clubs ‘ two bully firms has been depicted on the big screen several times, in films such as Green Street. [ 127 ]

competition with Leeds United [edit ]

Millwall share a fierce competition with Leeds United. The competition between the teams is intensified by both clubs passionate fans and association with football vandalism. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] The clubs ‘ two bully firms ; the Leeds United Service Crew and the Millwall Bushwackers were ill-famed in the 1970s and 80s for their ferocity, being called “ dirty Leeds ” and “ the lay waste to of football ” respectively. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] From 1920 to 2003 the sides met precisely 12 times ; competing in unlike tiers for the majority of their histories, and neither considering the early a equal on the slope. Since Leeds were relegated from the Premier League in 2004, the teams have met 28 times in 16 years. The competition began in League One during the 2007–08 season, with perturb and fierce clashes between both sets of fans and the police at Elland Road. [ 131 ] It continued into the 2008–09 season ; where the teams were vying for forwarding to the Championship, culminating in Millwall knocking Leeds out of the League One playoff at the semi-final stagecoach. [ 132 ] The clubs have played each other 40 times and are evenly matched ; Millwall has won 18, Leeds 17 and five games have ended in a draw .

South East London derbies [edit ]

Millwall are closest in proximity to Charlton Athletic, with The Den and The Valley being less than four miles ( 6.4 kilometer ) apart. They last met in July 2020, a 1–0 gain for Millwall at the Valley. [ 134 ] Since their first gear competitive game in 1921, Millwall have won 37, drawn 26 and lost 12. The Lions are unbeaten in their last twelve games against Charlton, spanning 24 years, where they have won seven and drawn five. The Addicks last gain came in March 1996 at The Valley. [ 134 ] The Lions last played against boyfriend South East London club Crystal Palace in the 2012–13 temper when both teams were in the Football League Championship. They drew 0–0 at The Den and 2–2 at Selhurst Park. [ 136 ] In about 100 competitive games between the two clubs since 1906, Millwall have won 39, drawn 29 and lost 29. As of the 2020–21 season, Crystal Palace play in the Premier League, Millwall dally in the Championship, and Charlton bid in League One .

Players [edit ]

current police squad [edit ]

As of 31 August 2021[138]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loan [edit ]

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Under 23 young person academy [edit ]

As of 3 August 2021.[139]

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musician of the year [edit ]

As voted by Millwall Supporters Club members and season ticket holders.[140]

Personnel honours [edit ]

Millwall players inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame : [ 141 ]

PFA Fans ‘ Player of the year [edit ]

PFA Team of the year [edit ]

luminary former players [edit ]

The following is a list of luminary footballers who have played for Millwall, including players who have been honoured in Millwall ‘s Hall of Fame, international players who were capped by their nation while playing for Millwall, players who have been given a testimony for 10 years of service at the club, players who have made over 100 appearances or scored 50 goals, and besides 1885 founder member players who contributed significantly to the clubs ‘ history. [ 21 ] [ 143 ] [ 144 ] [ 4 ] [ 145 ] [ 146 ]
note : current players Daniel Ballard, Jón Daði Böðvarsson, George Saville and Mahlon Romeo have been capped internationally while playing for Millwall, and will be added to the list when they leave the golf club .

Managers [edit ]

There have been 34 permanent and 15 caretaker managers since the appointment of the club ‘s beginning master coach, Bert Lipsham on 4 May 1911. From 1890 to 1910, Millwall directors Kidd, Stopher and Saunders were honorary managers, besides working under the title of baseball club repository. Bob Hunter is Millwall ‘s longest serve director, having stayed at the helm for 15 years. anterior to becoming coach, he was the club ‘s flight simulator for 21 years. He died in agency in 1933, having served at the club for a entire of 36 years. Steve Claridge holds the short tenure at the club, having been in charge for a period of 36 days without ever taking charge of a first-team bet on. [ 59 ] Every Millwall coach has come from the United Kingdom or Ireland .
( randomness ) = secretary ( degree centigrade ) = caretaker

club officials [edit ]

As of 1 July 2021.[151][152]

Board [edit ]

  • Chairman: John Berylson
  • Chief executive: Steve Kavanagh
  • Directors: James Berylson, Constantine Gonticas, Trevor Keyse, Demos Kouvaris, Richard Press and Peter Garston

Coaching staff [edit ]

Honours [edit ]

Millwall Rovers with the East London Cup, 1887 .

Records and statistics [edit ]

Barry Kitchener holds the criminal record for Millwall appearances, having played 596 matches between 1966 and 1982. The goalscoring phonograph record is held by former coach Neil Harris, with 138 in all competitions. [ 159 ] [ 160 ] He broke the previous criminal record of 111 goals, held by Teddy Sheringham on 13 January 2009, during a 3–2 away win at Crewe Alexandra. [ 161 ] The clubhouse ‘s widest victory allowance in the league is 9–1, [ 162 ] a scoreline which they achieved twice in their Football League Third Division South championship-winning year of 1927. They beat both Torquay United and Coventry City by this score at The Den. Millwall ‘s heaviest league get the better of was 8–1 away to Plymouth Argyle in 1932. [ 162 ] The club ‘s heaviest loss in all competitions was a 9–1 frustration at Aston Villa in an FA Cup fourth-round second-leg in 1946. [ 162 ] Millwall ‘s largest Cup succeed was 7–0 over Gateshead in 1936. [ 162 ] Their highest scoring aggregate bet on was a 12-goal thriller at home to Preston North End in 1930 when Millwall lost 7–5. [ 162 ]

player records [edit ]

As of 5 May 2019.

See List of Millwall F.C. seasons for Millwall’s top goalscorer each year since 1895.
On 22 May 2004 Millwall played Manchester United in the FA Cup Final, losing 3–0. As United had already qualified for the UEFA Champions League, Millwall were assured of playing in the UEFA Cup. Millwall played in the beginning round proper and lost 4–2 on aggregate to Ferencváros .

european read [edit ]

Supporters [edit ]

Millwall have averaged a gate close to 12,000 per home plot over their 93 seasons in the Football League, while the cabaret have spent the majority of that time yo-yoing back and forth between the second and one-third tiers of English football. [ 169 ] [ 170 ] Originally based in the East conclusion of London, the club moved across the River Thames in 1910 to south east London and digest is drawn from the surrounding areas. [ 171 ] The club and fans have a historic association with football vandalism, which came to prevalence in the 1970s and 1980s with a firm known primitively as F-Troop, finally becoming more wide known as the Millwall Bushwackers, who were one of the most ill-famed bully gangs in England. [ 172 ] On five occasions The Den was closed by The FA and the club has received numerous fines for crowd disorderliness. [ 173 ] The BBC documentary Panorama was invited into the club by Millwall in 1977 to show the bully reputation was a myth and being blown out of proportion by reporting. rather the BBC portrayed vandalism as being deeply rooted in Millwall, and attempted to link them to the reactionary political party National Front. The prove was highly damaging for the club. [ 35 ] [ 171 ] Former golf club chair Reg Burr once commented : “ Millwall are a commodious coat peg for football to hang its social ills on ”, [ 174 ] an example being the report of convicted murderer Gavin Grant. Although he had played for eight different clubs, playing his fewest games ( four ) for Millwall, and was signed to Bradford City at the fourth dimension, the BBC used the headline, “ Former Millwall striker Gavin Grant guilty of murder ”. [ 175 ] The stigma of violence attached to Millwall can be traced back over 100 years. Millwall played local anesthetic rivals West Ham United away at Upton Park on 17 September 1906 in a western League plot. Both sets of supporters were primarily made up of dockers, who lived and worked in the lapp vicinity in east London. Many were rivals working for opposing firms and vying for the same business. [ 176 ] A local anesthetic newspaper, East Ham Echo, reported that, “ From the very inaugural recoil of the ball it was seen likely to be some perturb, but the storm explosion when Dean and Jarvis came into collision ( Millwall had two players sent off during the pit ). This aroused considerable exhilaration among the spectators. The crowd on the bank having caught the fever, free fights were bountiful. ” In the 1920s Millwall ‘s grind was closed for two weeks after a Newport County goalkeeper, who had been struck by missiles, jumped into the crowd to confront some of the home supporters and was knocked unconscious. [ 178 ] The ground was again closed for two weeks in 1934 following crowd disturbances after the visit of Bradford Park Avenue. Pitch invasions resulted in another blockage in 1947 and in 1950 the club was fined after a referee and electrician were ambushed outside the ground. [ 173 ] In the 1960s, vandalism in England became more widely reported. On 6 November 1965 Millwall beat west London club Brentford 2–1 away at Griffin Park and during the game a handwriting grenade was thrown onto the pitch from the Millwall end. Brentford ‘s goalkeeper Chic Brodie picked it up, inspected it and threw it into his goal. It was late retrieved by police and determined to be a harmless dummy. There was fighting at heart and outside the land during the game between both sets of supporters, with one Millwall fan sustaining a break jaw. The Sun newspaper ran the sensationalist grenade-related headline “ Soccer Marches to War ! ” [ 180 ] Trouble was reported at Loftus Road on 26 March 1966 during a match between Queens Park Rangers and Millwall, at a clock time when both sides were near the clear of the league table pushing for promotion to Division Two, but the London bowler hat was won 6–1 by the west London based team, QPR. In the second-half, a coin was thrown from the terraces, which struck Millwall player Len Julians on the head, drawing blood. The stadium announcer warned that the game would be abandoned if there were any more disturbances from the crowd, prompting some Millwall fans to invade the pitch in an abortive attack to get the plot abandoned. [ 35 ] When Millwall ‘s unbeaten home read of 59 games came to an end against Plymouth Argyle in 1967, the windows of the away team ‘s coach were smashed. In the lapp class, a reviewer was attacked and the FA ordered the clubhouse to erect fences around The Den ‘s terrace. [ 173 ] On 11 March 1978 a belly laugh broke out at The Den during an FA Cup quarter-final between Millwall and Ipswich Town, with the home team losing 6–1. Fighting began on the terraces and spilled onto the pitch ; dozens of fans were injured, with some hooligans turning on their own team ‘s supporters leaving some innocent fans bloodied. Bobby Robson, then director of Ipswich, said of Millwall fans subsequently, “ They [ the patrol ] should have turned the flamethrowers on them ”. [ 35 ] In 1982 Millwall club chair Alan Thorne threatened to close the club because of violence sparked by losing in the FA Cup to non-league side Slough Town. [ 173 ] [ 178 ] The 1985 Kenilworth Road carouse, after an FA Cup sixth-round match between Luton Town and Millwall on 13 March 1985, became one of the worst and widely reported incidents of football vandalism to date. On that night, approximately 20,000 people packed into a footing that normally lone held half that total to watch Luton beat Millwall 1–0. [ 173 ] Numerous lurch invasions, fighting in the stands and missile-throwing occurred, of which one such object hit Luton ‘s goalkeeper Les Sealey. It led to a banish on away supporters by Luton from their Kenilworth Road prime for four years. Luton were asked by Millwall to make the Wednesday night match all-ticket, but this was ignored. [ 178 ] As a resultant role, equal bully firms gained access to the stadium. vitamin a well as the Millwall hooligans and those belonging to Luton ‘s firm the MIGs, many of the 31 fans arrested after the violence were identified as being from Chelsea ‘s Headhunters firm and West Ham United ‘s Inter City Firm. [ 178 ] The FA commissioned an question which concluded that it was “ not satisfied that Millwall F.C. took all reasonable precautions in accordance with the requirements of FA Rule 31 ( A ) ( II ). ” A£7,500 all right was levied against Millwall, though this was by and by withdrawn on appeal. [ 181 ] The penalty that Millwall faced was possibly that the clubhouse ‘s name was now “ synonymous with everything that was bad in football and society ”. [ 182 ] In May 2002, hundreds of hooligans attaching themselves to Millwall were involved in disorderliness around the ground, after the team lost a play-off game to Birmingham City. It was described by the BBC as one of the worst cases of civil perturb seen in Great Britain in late times. A police spokeswoman said that 47 police officers and 24 police horses were injured, and the Metropolitan Police considered suing the club after the events. [ 183 ] The then chair Theo Paphitis responded that Millwall could not be blamed for the actions of a mindless minority who attach themselves to the club. “ The trouble of mob ferocity is not entirely a Millwall trouble, it is not a football problem, it is a problem which plagues the whole of our society ”, he said. Paphitis former introduced a membership schema whereby alone fans who would be prepared to join and carry membership cards would be allowed into The Den. Scotland Yard withdrew its threat to sue, stating : “ In light of the efforts made and a contribution to a charity helping hurt police officers, the Metropolitan Police Service has decided not to pursue legal natural process against Millwall F.C. in relation back to the disorderliness ”. [ 184 ] Some legal experts said it would have been unmanageable to hold a football club creditworthy for something that occurred away from its grind and involved people who did not attend the match. The outline introduced by Paphitis now only applies to perceived bad away games. many fans blame the dodge for diminishing Millwall ‘s aside support, such as at Leeds United where fans are issued with vouchers which are then exchanged for tickets at a delegate period of West Yorkshire Police ‘s choose on the day of the game. besides, early on kick-off times arranged by the police frequently result in only a few hundred fans making the slip. [ 185 ] [ 186 ]
In January 2009, hundreds of Millwall fans perceived as “ high risk ” individuals gained access to an FA Cup fourth-round equal away at Hull City. The game, won 2–0 by Hull, was overshadowed when seats, coins and formative bottles were thrown by some away supporters. There were conflicting reports in the media as to whether missiles were initially thrown by Hull supporters following tone and derisive by Millwall fans of Jimmy Bullard ( an ex-West Ham musician ) merely prior to the regular. [ 188 ] On 25 August 2009, Millwall played away at West Ham United in the Football League Cup, losing 3–1 after excess meter. One Millwall garter was stabbed during clashes between the two sets of fans outside the grind. The game saw hundreds of West Ham fans invade the slope on three occasions, forcing the game to be temporarily suspended once. The police subsequently said the ferocity, because of its scale, was organised advance. [ 189 ] [ 190 ] In the aftermath of the disorder, Millwall were handed three charges by the FA and late cleared of all of them ; West Ham received four charges and were found guilty on two counts : violent, threatening, obscene and provocative behavior, and entering the field of play. West Ham were fined £115,000, an sum seen as an abuse 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 peer at a rival ‘s flat coat. [ 191 ] After a plot against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road in September 2010, director Kenny Jackett said Millwall ‘s bully problems are to a certain extent exaggerated by media sensationalism. “ I see it as unjust. We are an comfortable clubhouse to criticise and in my time [ at the clubhouse ], the way we have been reported is unfair ”, he said. [ 192 ] other examples of this include archive footage of their bully chemical element ‘s past bad behavior being shown, when disorderliness has occurred at other grounds, not involving them. [ 193 ] During a game between Millwall and Huddersfield Town, The Observer reported that a Huddersfield Town fan had thrown a coin at a electrician, and that some Millwall fans had intervened, and handed the perpetrator over to police. The News of the World, however, bore the headline : “ Millwall Thugs Deck Linesman With Concrete ”. This has led to a siege mentality among supporters of the club, which gave ascend to the Millwall fans ‘ celebrated terrace tone, No one likes us, we do n’t care, being sung in defiant defensive structure of themselves and their team. [ 194 ] [ 195 ] [ 196 ] In April 2013, Millwall met Wigan Athletic in a semi-final of the FA Cup. Millwall lost the plot 2–0. [ 73 ] Towards the end of the match, violence broke out in partially of the resist allocated to Millwall, with individuals fighting amongst themselves and then against police, resulting in 14 arrests, of which two were Wigan supporters. [ 197 ] In January 2014, a Millwall fan ripped a linesman ‘s sag after a corner was not given to his side during a plot against Leicester City ; Millwall lost 1–3. [ 198 ] On 29 May 2016, Millwall played in the Football League One play-off final against Barnsley at Wembley Stadium, but towards the conclusion of the match, with Barnsley winning 3–1, a group of Millwall supporters broke through a security barrier and attacked Barnsley supporters, some of whom were forced to leave the stadium to avoid the violence. besides there were objects thrown towards the Barnsley players and Barnsley supporters during the game. The fight and violence was condemned by the Football Association. [ 199 ] [ 200 ] On 26 January 2019, Millwall beat Everton 3–2 and knocked them out of the FA Cup. The two teams supporters clashed away from The Den before the game, with an Everton fan being slashed across the font with a knife. [ 120 ] A senior Metropolitan Police officer said, it was “ some of the most shock football violence seen for some time ”. [ 120 ] The game was besides blighted by allegations of racist intonation. [ 120 ] On 5 December 2020, Millwall played against Derby County in the first game back at the Den for fans in ten months due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Some of the 2,000 fans present booed the players who took a knee and raised a fist before the game in subscribe of the Black Lives Matter sociable and political motion. The boo was condemned by The FA, EFL, Kick it Out, and mainstream media. [ 201 ] [ 202 ] [ 203 ] Cabinet minister George Eustice refused to condemn Millwall fans, stating Black Live Matter political movement was against what most british people believed in and fans should be free to express their views. [ 204 ] The drawing card of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage called BLM a Marxist Party who had been “ sussed out ” by Millwall fans and called for kneeling to stop. [ 205 ] In the next game at the Den against QPR on 8 December 2020, Millwall fans applauded as QPR and Millwall players raised aloft an anti-racism standard about inequality in football. The 2,000 Millwall fans besides cheered the QPR players who took the knee. No Millwall player kneeled. Before the crippled, every fan was given a letter from the club saying, “ The eyes of the universe are on this football club tonight – your club – and they want us to fail. together as one, we will not let that happen. ” Some Millwall supporters had said their boo at the Derby game did not have racist captive, but was alternatively against the politicisation of the Black Lives Matter motion in the UK. [ 206 ]

luminary supporters [edit ]

In the community [edit ]

In 1985, the club founded the Millwall Community Trust ( MCT ), which offers sporting, educational and charitable projects. [ 242 ] The Trust is based adjacent door to The Den, in the Lions Centre. [ 243 ] Working with local people from the surrounding boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark and the wide Millwall Community. The Trust offers sports and fitness programmes, educational workshops, disability activities and soccer schools. The baseball club helps promote anti-knife and anti-gun crime. [ 244 ] In a match against Charlton Athletic in 2009, both teams wore special kits for the match in honor of mangle local teenagers and supporters Jimmy Mizen and Rob Knox. The son of both clubs ‘ shirt sponsors were replaced by the textbook, “ Street violence ruins lives ”. [ 245 ] The club has besides helped raise over £10,000 for the jacob’s ladder Help for Heroes. [ 246 ]

In popular culture [edit ]

Millwall have been depicted in films respective times, specifically highlighting the club ‘s vandalism firm the Bushwackers and the competition with West Ham United. [ 172 ] Often glorifying football violence in the begin, each film typically ends in loss of life sentence, showing the futility of vandalism. [ 247 ]

  • The Firm (1989) – Real life Millwall supporter Gary Oldman plays Bex, leader of football firm the Inter City Crew, a fictional representation of West Ham’s Inter City Firm and their violent exploits. Millwall’s Bushwackers firm are called The Buccaneers in the film.[234][248]
  • Arrivederci Millwall (1990) – A group of Millwall supporters travel to the 1982 World Cup in Spain, just after the Falklands War breaks out, intent on avenging a personal loss.[249]
  • Black Books (2000) – In the first episode “Cooking the Books”, Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) attempts to antagonise some Millwall hooligans into injuring him severely enough so that he may avoid doing his taxes. Upon remarking, “How does the song go? Millwall, Millwall, we’re really dreadful and all of our girlfriends are unfulfilled and alienated,” he succeeds.
  • The Football Factory (2004) – Primarily about the Chelsea Headhunters, who fight numerous other firms on away days, culminating in a big fight against Millwall’s Bushwackers.
  • Green Street (2005) – Elijah Wood plays an American student who gets involved with West Ham’s firm. The film builds up to a big clash with Millwall’s firm at the climax, after the two teams are drawn against each other in the Cup, foreshadowing similarities to the 2009 Upton Park riot.[127]
  • Rise of the Footsoldier (2007) – The rise of a football hooligan is chronicled from his beginnings on the terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals. The rivalry between West Ham and Millwall is portrayed during the opening scenes of the film.

The club ‘s ground The Den doubled as The Dragons Lair, home establish of fabricated team Harchester United in the television receiver series Dream Team. It besides appeared in episodes of the shows The Bill and Primeval. [ 258 ] In literature, books such as “ No One Likes Us, We Don’t Care: True Stories from Millwall, Britain’s Most Notorious Football Hooligans “ by Andrew Woods focuses on the bully component of Millwall. [ 259 ] Sunday Mirror columnist Michael Calvin spent the 2009–10 season covering Millwall, writing the ledger Family: Life, Death and Football. The book looks at the competition with West Ham United, the cutting of a Millwall supporter and the Lions play-off success and promotion to The Championship under Kenny Jackett .

References [edit ]

bibliography [edit ]

  • Calvin, Michael (2010). Family: Life, Death and Football. Integr8 Books. ISBN 978-0-9566981-0-0.
  • Dunning, Eric (1988). The Roots of Football Hooliganism: An Historical and Sociological Study. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-03677-1.
  • Lindsay, Richard (1991). Millwall: A Complete Record, 1885–1991. Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd. ISBN 0-907969-94-1.
  • Lindsay, Richard; Tarrant, Eddie (2010). Millwall: The Complete Record. DB Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85983-833-4.

far take [edit ]

  • Bethell, Chris; Millwall FC Museum; David Sullivan (1999). Millwall Football Club 1885–1939. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-1849-1.
  • Murray, Jim (1988). Lions of the South. Leatherbound Island. ISBN 1-871220-00-9.
  • Robson, Garry (2000). No One Likes Us, We Don’t Care: The Myth and Reality of Millwall Fandom. Berg Publishers. ISBN 1-85973-372-7.
  • Spaaij, Ramón (2006). Understanding Football Hooliganism: A Comparison of Six Western European Football Clubs. Vossiuspers UvA. ISBN 978-90-5629-445-8.

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