Millwall in the eighties- your memories

Peckham Lion said:
I've heard some of the best one liners, piss takeing and drop dead insults ever, down the Den. To refs, players, stewards ,OB and away fans at Wall. All comes out naturally and often in the tone that it should for best affect. No growling or amplified ,spit littered frothing, but just cool, calm, perfectly timed comedy.


Who remembers the lino with his flag strapped to a stump cause he only had one arm?
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That’s one of the things I missed about modern fans. Now it’s just vitriol spewed, with a distinct lack of imagination.

Whilst that has a place, at the old place there was real wit and and fair few comedians. Used to spend a lot of the games laughing at what was shouted at the ref or oppo players.
 
Gaeilge Millwall said:
Millwall in the 80's created a way of life for me, when i think of it now, completely entwined, one, made the other. The Crown and Anchor, The Fox, The Old Kent Road,.........one night after we came beck from Southampton i think, Arsenal were in the Frog giving it large. A small group of kids (we were only kids ourselves but they were younger than us )came out as we were passing and told us that they were terrorising all inside. We waited until they came out and chased them all over and give it to them :):):)
getting a coach to Coventry from the Tyrell, and making the coach driver drive through a market as he didnt know the way :)
The coaches from the Lizzie.
Meeting and becoming friends with people i hade never met before, Charlie, Podge, Lenny, T B and H...............The O K R was buzzing every weekend after football.
The other pubs, Kellys, The Kings on the rye, Cheeks, The Lyceum, the pub at the bottom of Blackheath (That Greg owned, name escapes me know.) That club in Herne Hill, opposite Brockwell Park, ................ Had a big row with Chelsea there one night, we were massively outnumbered, but didnt fold and gave it to them.....the next week........... What a Millwall turn out, they fecking shite themselves :)...........................
the specials, (not the group) Rashers, Farah's Le Pel, Swan lager, (the black ones were stronger) The music

It really was a way of life. every monday planning for the away games. Wages were really poor then, but we did it all, for so many years. Clothes, music, spills, wicked people, the old den, the peanut seller, crowds of 3'000 at times. I just loved it all. Unless one was there, it is just too hard to describe without sounding like a pussy. Samsons, Gillys the Apples and Pears, the Windsor, that one in Tower Bridge. Everywhere in our area was Millwall, no grey areas. Definatley no other shirts
It was all Millwall related, and of the 80's.

This is before i recall the games.......... But to me, it was a time, and the best time i have had with the lions. As stated, bigger results and games in the new den. But the 80's.................. absolutely loved, loved, loved it ..........
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Great post on what is a brilliant thread (Cheers Peckham!). Reading this is a reminder of those heady days, it was more than just football. It was about growing up on the estate, fighting, leaving school with your life in front of you, the laughs, your mates, birds, the days and nights on the piss, puffing, the OKR, pubs, clubs, characters, clobber, trainers, away games, jibbing, music and Millwall. We really did live through the best of times, I wish we could go back and do it all again.
 
our little lot would jump on the underground after home games
to see who was about in London (kings cross Euston )
even join up with the London reds one Saturday
fucking fun and games we use to get in to was unreal
 
Peckham Lion said:
Often a starting point for us if we didn't go Horseshoe first. I liked it, always good dj's. Same for the Grange. You remember the black chap and sometimes Wall attendee Danny Walters ?

Very easy going bloke, Arsenal chap but well connected at Wall. I see him down West Moreland road not that long ago. He played Friday and Saturday night in the Grange.
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Danny was Wall, never a gooner. He’s a Roader like me. He knocked about with some well known Walworth gooners but was always Wall. He still DJs.
 
Mode3 t-shirts, Pringles, Lyceum Friday nights where South London were top dogs, The Vic in Pages Walk, Shard Arms when Kitch had it, Fellmongers Arms, King on the Rye - World Cup 82 in Spain, went with a car a tent and a pocket of money no tickets but got into all 3 qualifiers, it was just after the Bank and Kings X incident so not on great terms with W Ham but met Bill G out there who I have to say came over as a decent bloke despite knowing we were Millwall - probably just the carefree age we were but everything was done just for a laugh - don't know if anyone remembers but went to the Fox after the Plymouth promotion match and a SLP photographer came in and took a pic in the garden which was in the papers the next edition, I bet that photo had a few on here in it - ended the decade with an arrest at Luton and a roller coaster 2 seasons in Div 1 - love to have that 10 years again
 
Peckham Lion said:
Often a starting point for us if we didn't go Horseshoe first. I liked it, always good dj's. Same for the Grange. You remember the black chap and sometimes Wall attendee Danny Walters ?

Very easy going bloke, Arsenal chap but well connected at Wall. I see him down West Moreland road not that long ago. He played Friday and Saturday night in the Grange.
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My memory is generally rubbish but I think I do remember the fella your talking about, not so many black fellas in there back in the day.
Run by Sonny his wife and her sisters, in there most Fridays and Saturdays.
Also used Gilly’s, South Side’s, boozer opposite The Stanley, can’t remember the name, the Lil off Jamaica road, The Fell and the Queen Vic, prior to these The Fort was our main go to.
Good times, some tear ups and the occasional bird!!!
 
TMFC said:
Danny was Wall, never a gooner. He’s a Roader like me. He knocked about with some well known Walworth gooners but was always Wall. He still DJs.
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Knew Dan really well back in the day. I even went to primary school with him. He had a famous photo down the lane with Princess Di, in the papers. I'm out of SE17 as well.
 
BrianLion said:
My memory is generally rubbish but I think I do remember the fella your talking about, not so many black fellas in there back in the day.
Run by Sonny his wife and her sisters, in there most Fridays and Saturdays.
Also used Gilly’s, South Side’s, boozer opposite The Stanley, can’t remember the name, the Lil off Jamaica road, The Fell and the Queen Vic, prior to these The Fort was our main go to.
Good times, some tear ups and the occasional bird!!!
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Add to that EJs, bloomers, red cow and bugles (fort) southwark park tavern opposite stanley, as for your last line🤔 😁 the China?
 
Completely different times to now. Football was the polar opposite to how it is now. And it was a million miles better.

My favourite decade supporting Millwall, probably because it was my first, granted, but the progression of the club, the crowd, the Old Den, the away games. It was magic.

Top 10 games from that decade in no particular order. Chesterfield away 1983-84. Reading away 1983-84. Chelsea away FA Cup 1984-85. Bradford home 1984-85. Villa home 1987-88. Hull away 1987-88. Liverpool away 1988-89. Forest home 1988-89. Leeds away 1987-88. Bournemouth away 1987-88.
 
Blinding thread, top effort Peckham. Brings back so many memories, the pubs, the games, the fucking about. Not to mention the holidays - Veronicas in Tenerife was mental, Said to my kids the other day, in the '80's it didn't feel like there were rules, we'd do what we wanted and had a blinding time doing it. The OKR and Bermondsey were alive. I feel sorry for youngsters today, they'll never experience the freedom we had.
 
robbo555 said:
Completely different times to now. Football was the polar opposite to how it is now. And it was a million miles better.

My favourite decade supporting Millwall, probably because it was my first, granted, but the progression of the club, the crowd, the Old Den, the away games. It was magic.

Top 10 games from that decade in no particular order. Chesterfield away 1983-84. Reading away 1983-84. Chelsea away FA Cup 1984-85. Bradford home 1984-85. Villa home 1987-88. Hull away 1987-88. Liverpool away 1988-89. Forest home 1988-89. Leeds away 1987-88. Bournemouth away 1987-88.
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Villa away first game in Div 1 is a great memory we took loads and everyone was bouncing. Escort from station walked past one of their pubs fella I know from Rotherhithe sitting outside raising his glass proper taking the piss out of them, everyone laughing they didn’t know what to do.
 
I remember going to Lincoln not long after we had bought Fash of them. was one of the first of as in the ground but no one else seemed to be coming in. they were all standing out outside. Works out old bill had told our lot that Lincoln had put the entrance fee up for as lot, so everyone was refusing to pay it. It was all sorted and I was no longer billy no mates. I never did get a refund 😂
 
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