Good post – and I know Bates has charged you top dollar but you only get ripped off once a year where we get ripped off every other week !!!

I’m a Leeds United season ticket holder. Millwall and Leeds have the same problems with a small minority of fans who, unfortunately, spoil games that would just have (and should have) noisy rivalry at each others grounds. I suspect that most of the arrangements are at the behest of the local Police and not the clubs themselves. As a (dedicated) Leeds fan I am looking forward to this fixture and all the fans banter that goes with it.

As you said at the beginning, Bates is the man who “advocated electrified fences at football ground”.
It’s not just Millwall fans. Bates treats all fans with the contempt that most DON’T deserve!
Nevertheless, I have been to Millwall (both the old ground and the new) and it is one of the most hostile environments I’ve experienced.

Dirty Leeds, love it,  i would’nt wanted to be called anything eles.

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Good post Mike, but as a Forest fan I find it incredibly annoying to be detained at the Den for over half an hour after the final whistle each time I visit there as an away fan. It’s swings and roundabouts.

Starting to like Millwall now especially at Christmas. You are the pantomime villains of football.

I love how the writer tries to make out Millwall fans are nice people. He must have forgot their disgusting Istanbul chants last season, with one fan even wearing a Galatasaray shirt. Scum.

The ‘bubbling’ of fans is not just applied Millwall. Fixtures between Southampton v Pompey are subject to the same arrangements this season. Police justify the restricting of peaceful fans on the basis of trouble caused by the few in the past. Clubs go along with the arrangements, but one wonders how much pressure plod put on for the arrangements. 

Senior Officers have told me the arrangement is ‘the best use of limited resources available.’ That’s alright then is it? Restrict the many because of the few? Like teacher keeping the whole class in because of one naughty child – one who is probably not even there.

By the way, Leeds charged Pompey fans £36 to sit in their restricted view stand this season. Is it £2 off if you are bubbled then? Our experience was bad enough – over-zealous stewarding and in-yer-face police filming. Good luck Millwall. I suggest you have your camera-phones at the ready.

Just don’t let it spoil the tribute to Gary Speed.

Very good article. In response to Dewi Powell referring to the wearing of a Galatasaray shirt. Is it not the Leeds fans who have chanted songs about the Munich disaster for decades? Do not tar an entire club  and there fans for the behaviour of a few mindless neanderthals.

Another good post by Mike as always, What a shame what the Yourkshire Old Bill have done to this fixture.Less than 200 tickets sold for this and I certainly wont be returning to Leeds until these restrictions are removed.

millwall the true scum filth of football and a stain on the underpants of humanity

I know others have said it, but Millwall have to suffer Ken Bates’ prices just once a season, we have it 23 times. I hate Millwall, but I prefer them to Ken Bates

no need for that fella-whats this bloke done? doubt he was one of the idiots wearing the turkscum shirts. LS10 miggywhite

Do not compare Leeds United with Millwall, are fans and club are so much better than yours. Your fans get treated like that because they still behave like animals and electric fences should be a minimum.

You think it’s any different for Leeds fans at your place? Only we don’t bring 200 supporters!

Fair article and hope Speeds passing is marked appropriately today by both sets of fans.

Come on Leeds

Tell your fans to stop acting like animals and they will be treated with respect. SIMPLES.

It’s not ideal, but Leeds fans had to get their tickets at a service station the last time we cam down there. Plus missed the first 20 minutes of the game because police made us wait for no good reason.

It’s unreal the way certain football fans get treated in this country. Get a coach to Wooley Edge then get your tickets? Grave insult to civil liberties. Personally, I believe Millwall fans have the right to make their own way to Leeds and Elland Road, indeed, I would actively encourage them to come up on the train or by coach to park up by the city center and walk, without police intervention all the way to Elland Road wearing their Turkey football shirts, making their throat slitting gestures.Yes, as a Leeds fan, I’d love to see them do that…

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