English Football Fans Boo BLM
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Millwall Football Club supporters have a song they sing at every match game, whether at home or away. To the tune of Rod Stewart’s “Sailing”, they sing “No one likes us, no one likes us, no one likes us, we don’t care, we are Millwall, super Millwall, we are Millwall, from the Den”.
Today, that is inaccurate for one reason.
Albeit Millwall moved from ‘The Den’ to another ground, they simply called it ‘The New Den’, and shortly thereafter it has simply been ‘The Den’ again. So, ‘Millwall from The Den’ does remain accurate for the pedants.
‘No one likes us’ was pretty accurate, to put it mildly, right up until yesterday when they played Derby County at home.
I went to ‘The Den’ – the old one – many moons ago to watch my team, Oldham Athletic, play against Millwall.
There was a sort of hazy smog of violence floating in the air all around. An odd description perhaps, but, from memory, accurate enough. Millwall fans had a hell of a reputation when it came to fighting with rival supporters.
The bigger clubs, Chelsea, Manchester United, and etc. had their ‘firms’ of hooligans, as indeed did all clubs, but Millwall was always a club to treat with extreme caution when considering your safety on a match day, regardless of whether you were playing at home or at ‘The Den’.
The truth is, apart from their own supporters, no one liked Millwall – until yesterday. Now, social media is awash with former Millwall haters expressing their love for the fans.
The fact that said Millwall fans might well give them a swift kick in the ‘happy sacks’ should they meet them whilst supporting their own team notwithstanding, the admiration for Millwall fans is palpable.
The reason for this astonishing turn of events is quite simple.
When the Millwall and Derby County players ‘took the knee’ before the game kicked off, the Millwall fans booed loudly.
With the Covid-19 restrictions currently in place, only 2,000 Millwall fans were allowed to attend. Despite much of the MSM claiming it was a minority that booed their own team, and Derby, for ‘taking the knee’, there is ample evidence now uploaded from fans’ mobile phones that pretty much every one of the 2,000 booed loudly.
Football supporters up and down the country are delighted.
Yes, of course, some are not. There is plenty of criticism of the fans’ behavior to be found on social media too, but the extraordinary support for their actions from rival fans and even rival hooligan ‘firms’ is quite astonishing, and, to me, absolutely marvelous.
Black Lives Matter has no place in the UK, let alone at sporting events. They have formed themselves into a Marxist political organization – certainly here in the UK if not elsewhere.
It has absolutely nothing to do with racism or color prejudice. Indeed, some of Millwall’s’ best and most beloved players over the years have been black.
It is Millwall supporters simply stating, via their booing of the knee taking players, ‘that BLM Marxists and politics, in general, can stay the hell away from our club’ – and all strength to them for that.
I’m delighted to say that Oldham Athletic have never ‘taken the knee’. Queens Park Rangers formally stopped doing so a while back.
No doubt when, or if, things return to normal and fans en masse are allowed back into grounds to cheer on their teams, football clubs might start to get the message.
The best part of 20,000 or more booing fans will, I’m sure, adequately make the point.
Supporters are there to watch their team. Cheer on their team, hopefully to victory. Some might even be there to see whether there is a punch up with rival fans in the offing.
The one thing supporters are not there for is to have BLM rammed down their throats and watch their team’s players kneeling down in supplication to a Marxist political organization.
“We didn’t like you, we didn’t like you, now we love you, Millwall from The Den”.
Well, we do until we get a kick in the ‘happy sacks’ for supporting the team who plays against you anyway.
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Word’s gone around football fans throughout England this week if their teams take a knee next game…..
….#BLM…Boo Like Millwall
I don’t care who kneels or when or for what, but movements of all sorts nearly always disappoint me and BLM seems more about shutting up other movements and their allies trying to promote the same ideas in different words. So much of their rhetoric is about protecting their slogans and attacking others. They have far less support from black intellectuals than from the self-flagellating white liberals. I’ve been a long time supporter of the NAACP but the day their TV ad insisting I’m a racist came out, the smear campaign against secular humanism and humanistic religions began, I became their enemy.
All life does matter. Say it loud.
Neil, my last words on this, after sleeping on it, are that I guess you are who you are and that is who you will be. As with my old acquaintances at Harry’s, I am tired of even thinking that anything I say will change your mind on these things. I suppose it is your right, however wrong or immoral it may be, to be as racist and xenophobic as you choose. Nothing says I have to pay any attention to it.
Cherries – I support Oldham Athletic who, I’m delighted to say, have never ‘taken the knee’….interesting that you put Brexiteers and racists together so easily…..one only equals the other in closed minds
Jess – Taking the knee in Blighty is associated with supporting BLM, which most British don’t. BLM in the UK are anti-white not anti-racist. Big difference.
Holte – I never suggested you personally hate the working class…only that many WOKES clearly do.
FFS, this bullshit again from you. You are like a broken record that you know damn well it skips, but you play it anyway. The systemic racism is what is being protested every fuckin place, merry old England included. Try wrapping your head around the fact that for those of us that have some color we are not treated the same at all.
“Strange how so many on the left hate working class football fans.”
Such drivel. I’m not in the hate business but there are a few people I dislike intensely.
Like all the comments and you seem to have got the measure of NN well and truly.
I know nothing about football but I’ve heard about Millwall. Quite a lot of football fans, from what I’ve heard, are brexiters and racists.
I’m surprised NN isn’t a millwall supporter? If the team support BLM that’s their choice!
Holte : Savages indeed! I was positively terrified at the old ‘Den’…..
Hammers fans booed as well before their United game.
Thing is. The awful racism of the 70s and 80s football games as gone. 30 plus percent of Premier players are black…..that’s what I’ve been told anyway….thought it was more.
There’s only a tiny minority of fans that are still racist, yet so many booed?
They weren’t booing black players, or black people come to that. They were booing BLM.
That seems to be a freedom of expression the WOKE left think calls for re-educatoon.
Strange really how so many on the left hate the working class football fans….
I remember Millwall fans. They weren’t just football hooligans, they were savage beasts. The booing fans at this weekends game are probably the sons and grandsons of the mob-handed maniacs I remember. Stupidity, like being socially responsible, tends to get passed down the generations.
So it’s well done Millwall fans. We hate you unless you perform an act of severe intolerance.
Brexit not Brent….bloody auto correct…new mobile too…auto correct is worse than the old phone!
Auto-correct has nothing to do with the phone.
I know…it’s me….I prefer blaming the new phone 😉
Bill : I’m against stuff like this sticking its oar into football. In fact, of all our sports, football has done by far the most to kick out racism.
What’s pissed off us fans is all this BLM kneeling crap that doesn’t belong in the sport, nor come to that, in Britain.
Mike : I’m not fussed Trump lost. Just hopeful we’ll ignore Bidens waffle regarding Brent.
Neil, it is not about a sport kicking out racism it is with folks like yourself that won’t let it go. Hell, you would have been happy in the old American South. I think we at MMA get it. You are a racist almost to the point of being a White Supremacist. Now let it go, and think about other things, for what’s his name’s sake. How is the weather in Britain these days? Have you gotten any new cats lately?
If you were in the U.S. you would probably be a Trumper. The other day I was out and about for the first time since this mess started and I happened to find myself near one of my old haunts, Harry’s Bar. I thought I would pop in fr a quick beer and say hi to the old gang. I was not in their more than ten minutes and had to leave. Damn fools were griping about how some cartel stole the election from Trump. One guy was arguing that Covid wasn’t real,, it was something that was deemed up by the Democrats and the Chinese and NATO were probably helping. Can you believe this? Well, maybe you can. These were some sort of intelligent people. Lawyers, accountants, along with the usual Alabama riff-raff. They kept poking me about my mask, so I left half the beer on the counter and left. You people are always wanting to play the blame game. Someone has the be the butts of your jokes or gripes. Personally, I don’t give a rat’s ass what BLM does. I think that anyone who has a grievance that want to protest then so be it. If it inconveniences people for minute or two at a football game and they do not like it, then they can protest that. It comes down to tolerance and trying to control other people. Let others do what they want as long as it is legal and not interfering with another person’s rights. Mike has mentioned several times that he believe the BLM over here are terrorists. I believe sometimes they are, at least some of them are.
It is true Bill, that I believe BLM are capable of committing terrorist acts. Fortunately, not everyone has a dark heart so no doubt many are good and decent people who care about others, but the public face doesn’t reflect the love, but rather the hate.
It’s true black lives matter but the fact remains all lives matter.
What makes you think Biden is going to “waffle on?” We haven’t heard a word about that over here.
Neil, I find myself, once again, agreeing with my friend Bill. No doubt Trump’s election loss caused you great sadness.
You know Neil, I generally enjoy your writing. I think you have a bit of talent unlike myself who struggles to put together sentences I think. But, when you get on your racism kicks all the talent in the world doesn’t help. This story could have been written by Donald Trump. “Marxism”? First. Karl Marx had really strange ideas like no one is better than anyone else. While I think that some people overdo the “we have suffered long enough” point with BLM, but there are a few among their members who are trying to point out their grievances when other methods fail to get the attention of political leaders. Granted, that they are, in many cases, hurting their cause. But other movements, such as feminism have actually gained some changes. An American singer, Ray Stevens, put out a song titled “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” which is very appropriate. “Before you abuse, criticize, or accuse, walk a mile in my shoes.”