|1-Ron Mead


|1-talking through his arse



                          by Mammoth/Syndicate

Last  week  after  the  Ipswich V Millwall game at Portman Road Millwall
were  relegated to Division 2 and their "fans" went mad, ripped up seats
and  threw  them  at  Ipswich fans, there were fights outside and dozens
arrested.

The  Millwall chairman said the next day that their fans were superb and
that  "You  wouldnt  find  a  better  set  of  fans  anywhere", I beg to
differ....

I  am  a  season  ticket  holder  at  Ipswich and the after-match scenes
shocked me, the Millwall chairman claimed Ipswich fans provoked Millwall
into violence, bollocks!!  We spent most of the game singing "going down
going  down"  to  the  Millwall  in the Portman stand but thats part and
parcel  of the game!  Last season we got stuffed nine-nil at Man Utd but
we  did`nt  resort to aggro, after the final whistle last Sunday Ipswich
fans  stayed to hear the final results, a nil-nil draw was`nt enough for
us to make the playoffs because Leicester won at Watford, but Portsmouth
beat  Huddersfield to relegate Millwall, within seconds we were cheering
and  seats  were  flying from the Millwall section near the North stand.
The  police  moved back and some Ipswich fans were leaving from the exit
of  the North Stand near the Portman stand, from where I was I saw a lot
of  seats  flying  and threats from the fans in the Portman, outside was
different,  a corden of police with riot shields blocked the two sets of
fans,  but a load got through and a mass brawl started in the street.  I
got  back  to  the  car and my mate drove back to Felixstowe pretty damn
quickly,  since  the  match  was  on  Anglia  I  watched the ending with
Millwall  chucking seats and it sickened me, the look on their faces was
one of pure hatred.  Next day the local papers were full of it, shots of
Millwall chucking seats and news of Ipswich fans steaming into Millwall,
apparently  14 Town fans were nicked and five Millwall, but the Millwall
had smashed up the special train taking them back to London.


The  point  I  am making is if Ipswich fans fought Millwall fans then it
must have been pure provocation because Ipswich fans have been known for
years  as  being friendly, anyone who was at Ipswich V Manchester United
on May 2nd 1994 will tell you so.

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