Millwall vs Villa 1989

[Dave Clark Five]

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Don't know about the link but hope it works.
Memories of a grim old ground. They had tried to introduce segregation by this time but you still had to get in and out in one piece.
I think it was this game where we had spotted a CIU club just at the back of the 'car park', tucked in behind a railway bridge, on a non-matchday visit.
On arriving at London Bridge we asked the taxi driver to take us there.
'There's no club there mate' he said.
Anyway, on arrival at the club, this wizened old knower of the knowledge was visibly startled.
'Well fack me. I never knew that was there!'
I suspect it was the subject of discussion in the Taxi Club later that day.
The club was a reasonably safe haven in the days where such things were important. You just dreaded a twat in a Villa scarf coming up and shouting 'Oright mate?' in the midst of the Millwall throngs.
Funny how few knobheads used to go with us in those days.
The ground is shown in all its glory here and there are some clips of other games.

[supertommykN'iba]

Was this the video you were looking for?

 

[willywombat]

 If people think things are bad now then this should serve as a bit of a straightner!

[willywombat]

Strange how there would be 2 or 300 hundred chanting at the Den yet 2 or 3000 waiting outside to kick your head in

[Oscar Arce]

I'd almost forgot what a bunch of inbreds Millwall are.
Neck high tackles, clinging mud, lunatic supporters...ah yes, those were the days !
Funny to hear them chanting 'you dirty Norther Bastards' though.

[Dave Clark Five]

Those were the days when you had to check the fixtures of all divisions to work out whop you might bump into at motorway service stations and railway stations.
In the case of Millwall and some other London clubs, it was not unusual for them to wait at Euston etc for away fans or even other London clubs fans on their way home from a game.
Those were also days when there were not so many 'away pubs' as there are now - not that I would have gone in one then or ever intend to now. If more than a handful of obvious away fans were gathered in a pub, it was a matter of waiting for the windows to go in, from the outside.

[gerags]

I went down on the official travellers club coach for this one.
The one thing that struck me was that there was no one to be seen within half a mile of the ground before or after the match, but read afterwards that it was their biggest game of the season.
I think them winning meant thay they left in a good mood.

A pretty uneventful away day as far as the official coaches were concerned.

[Damo70]

I missed this one but went there the previous season (Easter weekend I think) and the following season (start of December?). We lost both of those as well!

[CT]

I went to the one the season before (I think we were in the black & white kit) when we lost 2-0. Kevin Gage got booked for whacking the ball towards the fence in front of the "Dockers" standing area.

We met Lester Shapter (the ref) on the train on the way back and he chatted to us for about 10 minutes about the game and some of the decisions. Real nice bloke - how times have changed.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I went down on the official travellers club coach for this one.
The one thing that struck me was that there was no one to be seen within half a mile of the ground before or after the match, but read afterwards that it was their biggest game of the season.
I think them winning meant thay they left in a good mood.

A pretty uneventful away day as far as the official coaches were concerned.

I went down on a coach too, that drove right up to the stadium and you're right, it was bloody weird how there was absolutely nobody on the streets, a complete ghost town. After all the talk of the dangers of going to the Den, it was, as you say, most eneventful.

[bones.]

After the match we were marched back to New Cross Gate accompanied by riot vans, dogs, and everything else in the Mets armoury. We had to wait in a long line outside the station and as we were standing there a coach full of Japanese tourists stopped in the traffic jam opposite, they all leapt to the windows and took photographs of us. Wonder if any of those photos still exist? When we finally got to the platform some nippers started chucking milk bottles at us. Nice place Lewisham.

[PeterWithe]

Doesn't Millwalls manager look like Big Vern from Viz.