Im sure if you and your 6 year old son dont go after a people with hocky sticks then they will be more than safe, there a large police presents at football games…. Like our man says, theres no harm in kicking a few plastic balls around, and the nonce going on about he mum having a bottle thrown at her is a load of b0ll0x, i know for a fact no bottles were thrown (and certainly not at an 75 year old lady!) there is a great respect in the East End for our Elders, Freinds and Family. The trouble started when the chap started swinging hocky sticks at people, then they rightly got what hey deserved… they wont be doing it again any time soon, a valuable lesson learned and no real harm done…

So if your going to be a baby and not take your son to the Millwall game (which will be a great atmosphere) then thats a shame. I dont think anyone is going to start throwing bottles at you little boy. Just a few months back, there we a couple of young lads of a similar age in that very same pub (The Duke) with chelsea shirts on, a team with which we have a great rivalry, and a team that beat us in the game, we had a bit of banter with the boys, some playful boos but nothing malicious.

The shame is not people like me having some harmful fun (that said, we will put people in there place if they step out of line) the proble my friend are but people like you, who if one of those lads went for your son with a hocky stock you’d be asking us to help you out and be crying becasue no one did nothing, someone smashed a fellow supporter in the face with a hocky stick… what did you want everyone to do? turn a blind eye… or say ” oh he deserved that for kicking a plastick ball at a metal car”

So please don’t come on here preaching what is right and what is wrong.

Thanks

The shameful thing is that there are still people who believe that someone should have to know better than to go in a no-go area, that somehow football and support for football takes priority over people going about their daily lives.

I haven’t seen “Green Street Hooligans”, but pitched battles are a reality in football hooliganism - hopefully a fading reality, but not a hokey movie gimic. The organisers from rival gangs of supporters often stay in touch by cell phone to plan the time and place for the pitched battle.

All of this can have a very negative impact on more reasonable supporters. My local club have been promoted into the same League with Millwall. That will be one home match which I will have to avoid with my six-year-old son, both for the sake of his ears and his safety. I find that a great shame. What’s an even greater shame is that people like Youngman are incapable of recognising that it is a shame.