Love these stories, this is Blues history 💙

I was at this game as a 15 Millwall fan we the maddest firm in the land when Lactford scored we invaded the pitch there was girl on there that hit him with a banner absolutely mental to see in front of 33 000 fans outside every coach was smashed to pieces I will never forget that night was broken That was 50 years ago and there still breaking my heart 💙COYL 🦁

@DavoBirmingham2

7 ай бұрын

Barmy, only Millwall could take that many to a game you weren’t even playing in 😂

@chriscowap6213

7 ай бұрын

That was normal them days mate turning up at someone else’s ground mob handed when we didn’t have a game 😃crazy days 👍

@chriscowap6213

7 ай бұрын

I went to game at St Andrews the same season you beat us 1-0 am i right in saying Trevor Francis made he debut in that match as 16/17 old brilliant footballer 👍

I was at that game with my mate from school , Al Hunter who became Pit Bull on London's burning TV show , it was a bit scary trying to get back home safely dodging the Milwall fans , I was almost 16 at the time , Blues showed so much promise back then , unfortunately never realized . Thanks for the great anecdotes Mike . KRO .

Great to hear Mike tell it, one of those stories that makes Blues and Millwall different to so many clubs in the country.

I was at the game too. I remember queuing from 2pm at Brisbane Road to make sure I got in. The Millwall fans invaded the pitch to get the game abandoned after Latchford’s goal, but Garry Pendrey said afterwards that the ref said there was no way he would abandon the game. On the tube back to Euston Station a Millwall fan pulled the communication cord to stop the tube as a last act of defiance.

Too young to have been there but some mad stories about that night! Running battles all night long and even a few West Ham there who took a beating from both Millwall and the Zulus I’ve heard 👀 COYL 🦁

Wagged a day from school to get to East London with my late father for the Mother of ALL away days that night in May ‘72. Super Bob Latchford bagged the goal, but, that’s when the fun began, with the Boys from Sarf of the river. Pitch invasion when we scored, proper set too behind one of the goals, bomb hoax, & finally, at stupid o’clock we were promoted to Division One. Fabulous days following Blues, a lot of sorrows, but, this night was an absolute joy. KRO.

@DavoBirmingham2

7 ай бұрын

Amazing 😂

@Pete85riot

2 ай бұрын

Davo don't know ya but love ya Blues vid's, plze try n find highlights of that game I went with Ol Man i was 7 pretty 🙏 Bruv #KRO ​@@DavoBirmingham2

Was at that game - my dad took me and my mate.Lots of Millwall on the way in. Remember waiting for my dad and hearing lots of glass smashing! Anyway we won and got home safely! Thanks for taking us ,DAD.KRO.(I am 68 now so was very young then - 17yo)

@DavoBirmingham2

7 ай бұрын

Love it mate, one to cherish - mostly 😅

I sold my tape recorder for £7 and hitched to that game, I was 17 years old and stood with the Orient fans who were on our side all through the game. On our way back we were on the Tube and all the windows were being smashed as it travelled, i thought crazy Bluenoses till they started chanting Millwall as they were blue and white, I just shut my mouth and kept my head down me with a bluenose and Birmingham accent lol. What a game, Gordon Taylor with that brilliant corner and big Bob Latchford KRO

I have a few Millwall stories I used to live on East Street off the Old Kent road and my girlfriends uncle who i worked for was a Bermondsey builder and we got paid in Millwall's pub the Barnaby opposite the ground .I wore my Leeds shirt but we had never played Millwall at that point so no problems First game at te den was Bradford City all my old Bradford mates turned up when i was sat our side a pub at the top of the old kent road I went to the first two Leeds aways there I could share the stories if you like but to tried to find the blogs now

Went to the game with my old man and two of his mates. Fun and games all night inside and outside Brisburn Road. After the game the police closed off the entrance to Layton tube station as it was kicking off with Millwall inside, so we jumped in a black cab and got him to drop us off at the next station. What an eventful evening !

O's fan ... I was there as a teenager in the West Stand. No-one could move - all standing. Sharpened coins being thrown down the terraces. People pissing over their feet at half-time. There were also loads of Irons fans there, just to check out the Millwall north of the river. I remember the Brummies singing 'Keep Right on to the End of the Road'.

PS.My Dad took me to Highbury when Vowden headed our equalizer from outside penalty area. Their keeper ( can't remember his name) was dropped for replay. What a night that (replay) was ....I think St Andrews was nicknamed the 'graveyard' in respect of our ability to beat top sides in cup.

@MrGranfield

7 ай бұрын

The Arsenal goalkeeper was Jim Furnell who after that game lost his place to Bob Wilson and never played for Arsenal again.

@iohnxxxx

7 ай бұрын

​@MrGranfield about 1968?days of terry niell ian ure David Court I was at game

i liked your video

@DavoBirmingham2

7 ай бұрын

You’re a smart man, Sean 🤝

@Isleofskye

7 ай бұрын

@@DavoBirmingham2 Good video and this 69 year old has written from a Millwall perspective:)

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As a Millwall fan, THIS was the situation. On the previous Saturday Millwall finished their season with a 2/0 Home win to Preston and word went around that the Blues had lost at Sheff Wed and after 87 years(then) WE WERE UP and the Players were carried across The OLD Den when the truth came thru. Players were dropped on the pitch and Blues needed a Draw at Orient in front of 33,000 at Orient(average gate 4,000) , there were between 15 to 20,000 Blues and about 8,000 Millwall and 5,000 "others". Bob Latchford scored 20 mins from time and Blues won 1/0 and went up. The Easter match at St Andrew's when 44,000 including 8,000 Wall) was one by Bob Hatton's BLATANT Offside goal 1/0.

@infrasleep

7 ай бұрын

Do you know anything about this ?1976 is a long way back but in April '76 I went to Aldershot's away game v Mansfield and at a service station somewhere on the M1 our coach pulled in and there was this other coach parked up. Someone came up and asked who we were and said that's OK thought you might be Palace (Aldershot play in red/blue) and said they were Millwall going to Hereford (I think )(Millwall got promoted in 75-6 and said they knew where we were hiding when Aldershot played at the Den that season-a 4-1 win for Millwall!!) but the thing that still mystifies me is that the Millwall coach was an executive coach and had about six or seven Millwall blokes on it and maybe the same number of horny looking females !! Not your average supporters club type of coach taking punters to the game! I've been told some Millwall fans back then did this sort of thing; hired exec coaches or rail travel. I could barely afford the £2.50 it cost for a seat on the supporters club coach from Aldershot to Mansfield-god knows what an exec coach hire was!! Makes me smile to this day. What are the stories about this ? It was well bizarre, even for the 70's

@Isleofskye

7 ай бұрын

@@infrasleep Perfect example of why I tell young fans to keep a short diary because I will never know if I went to The Recreation Ground in The 1970;s as my most regular travelling mate died, suddenly,in 2014 and I don't remember any details or how we would have got there but I think it was one of the 84 grounds that I went to with Millwall and seems an obvious one. Believe it or not, in 1,770 games,I never got involved in any trouble though had a few near misses: Chelsea twice, Cardiff, Oldham(Man United) Stoke and Bolton spring to mind. so don't know at all, my friend. Good Luck.

@infrasleep

7 ай бұрын

@@Isleofskye In 75-6 I think it was a 1-1 draw v Millwall at the Rec,other than that there was a league cup tie in either the late 70's or early 80's and then in the mid 90's Millwall did Aldershot a big favour each season-us having gone bust-by playing PSF's to generate a bit of cash for the season. The only trouble there ever was at Aldershot was always down to Portsmouth thugs coming to settle scores they had with the likes of Sheffield Wednesday/Blackburn/Bristol Rovers etc when we played them which was annoying as we had no argument with any of them and would get it in the neck when we went there (and in those days a coach was all we'd take North) I've heard that this sort of settling scores happened a lot in the 70's/80's -It resurfaced in 2005 when we had a P/O SF v Carlisle where a load of Portsmouth fans kicked off against the Carlisle support for God knows what reason-nothing to do with the Shot's' the only thing we had against Carlisle was that they beat us and went up instead of us. Really no call for it. If you've got a gripe against any sides support, wait til you play them,not give grief to a club with no firms or any aggro attached to it. Enjoy the non league scene TBH-no real hassles and-at last-we have a team that goes for it which is all we've ever wanted. Still think of those Millwall fans in that exec coach all those years back ! Real football days !

@Isleofskye

7 ай бұрын

@@infrasleep That's interesting and why I said "Oldham(Man United) because United played at The Den only the previous week and they wanted revenge so turned up at our end. I ran off to the corner, went on the pitch, and entered the side with the Oldham dans beckoning us to join them at the other end. Suddenly I was surrounded by United and joined in with them.I returned to my mates and they informed me that I still had my Millwall scarf on so United must have thought I stole it. Luckily I did not realise when I was in the middle of them. After the game, my mates went through an alley on the way to the station and I knew there would be 3-way trouble(and they said that there was!) and i went, on my own, around the Town in an isolated area with just a few houses and 12 United are walking straight towards me ! I had to think, quickly, and, luckily. an old man was standing outside one of the few houses and I explained my predicament and asked him to shout "See you tonight lad" to me as if I was a local(my Millwall scarf was well hidden) and it worked perfectly. He shouted,I smiled and said "Aye" and walked past the small mob of the dozen United. Merry Xmas.:)

My Dad loved telling me about this match, one of his favourite nights watching the blues. Barmy goings-on, both on and off the pitch. Would have made one hell of a 'Davo's Diary' 😂

@DavoBirmingham2

7 ай бұрын

Imagine 😂

@Isleofskye

7 ай бұрын

As a Millwall fan, THIS was the situation. On the previous Saturday Millwall finished their season with a 2/0 Home win to Preston and word went around that the Blues had lost at Sheff Wed and after 87 years(then) WE WERE UP and the Players were carried across The OLD Den when the truth came thru. Players were dropped on the pitch and Blues needed a Draw at Orient in front of 33,000 at Orient(average gate 4,000) , there were between 15 to 20,000 Blues and about 8,000 Millwall and 5,000 "others". Bob Latchford scored 20 mins from time and Blues won 1/0 and went up. The Easter match at St Andrew's when 44,000 including 8,000 Wall) was one by Bob Hatton's BLATANT Offside goal 1/0.

so wheres the row

Why would Millwall be at a game between Birmingham and Leyton Orient?

@handsworthrob3881

7 ай бұрын

Millwall needed an Orient win to get promoted.

I was 7 at the time went with Ol Man all i remember was walkin round pitch coz of the trouble, have tried everythin to see highlights can any1 plze 🙏 help,hopin 2 see self with Dad whose no longer here, plze Blue-Nozes help #KRO

5 thousand Millwall fans, quick out the traps with bollocks

@handsworthrob3881

7 ай бұрын

I can assure you there were 5,000 Millwall fans there, probably more actually. Orient fans were petrified that night.

@BoneStar

7 ай бұрын

@@handsworthrob3881 I was there mate, so letsbe real, Millwall didn't even bring 5 thousand when they played there and are you surethere wasn't 30,000 Birmingham there ?