Which fanbase has suffered the most

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Millwall having the same sort of supporters of 30 years ago isn't exactly something to be proud of.
It’s all they have, proudly boasting every five minutes that nobody likes them. But apparently they don’t care.
 

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It’s all they have, proudly boasting every five minutes that nobody likes them. But apparently they don’t care.


why would they care? yes they have their idiots like Leeds do, but to be brainless enough to think that's their majority is a bit sad, I've actually drank with some Millwall fans abroad before whilst I was in my Leeds shirt, we laughed about kicking my head in, did I feel like I was in danger ? no just a great couple of hours watching a Euro's match, ended up being like every other club, just a large group of men drinking and having banter
 

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Evidently, not true even if yes, we have suffered in our own way. For better or for worse, we have roughly the same sort of supporters we had 20-30 years ago, which is something you can't say about other clubs.
Well if that's true your "reputation" is overrated.

Millwall have a small fanbase, I've seen you cause aggro once at Ashton Gate and it was the opening day when you won 3-0 and decided to smash the away end up for some bizarre reason.

I've been to The Den and it's a pretty soulless ground that was half empty and I found it incredibly tame. There were barely any Millwall fans there, saw fuck all pre and post match.
 

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why would they care? yes they have their idiots like Leeds do, but to be brainless enough to think that's their majority is a bit sad.
If Millwall did not care about nobody liking them then they would not constantly chant about it.

Clubs like Stoke, Birmingham and Wolves have never been overly endearing either but the difference is that they genuinely don't care.

I've actually drank with some Millwall fans abroad before whilst I was in my Leeds shirt, we laughed about kicking my head in, did I feel like I was in danger ? no just a great couple of hours watching a Euro's match, ended up being like every other club, just a large group of men drinking and having banter
Walk through Bermondsey on a match day wearing your Leeds shirt and see if you still have the same opinion after it.
 
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Well if that's true your "reputation" is overrated.

Millwall have a small fanbase, I've seen you cause aggro once at Ashton Gate and it was the opening day when you won 3-0 and decided to smash the away end up for some bizarre reason.
It was probably nothing personal, they have been known to smash their own town up.
 

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Millwall having the same sort of supporters of 30 years ago isn't exactly something to be proud of.

I did say 'for better or for worse,' to be fair.

Well if that's true your "reputation" is overrated.

Millwall have a small fanbase, I've seen you cause aggro once at Ashton Gate and it was the opening day when you won 3-0 and decided to smash the away end up for some bizarre reason.

I've been to The Den and it's a pretty soulless ground that was half empty and I found it incredibly tame. There were barely any Millwall fans there, saw fuck all pre and post match.

There is a lot of defensive stuff in this post, which is fair enough given I implied that 90% of this division lacks soul, but you will never meet a Millwall supporter who claims that we are a big club and to attack us on ambition, crowd size and the conventional metrics for club status betrays a fundamental misunderstanding about Millwall and its supporters.

I'm also talking about trends. You're talking about the one or two times you've been to Millwall. I can't speak for Bristol City in specifics, but it seems likely they will go the way of your Hulls and Cardiffs. The only thing keeping them relatively grounded is lack of success, but that looks likely to change in the future. Ultimately, the club will be unrecognisable, but most depressingly indistinguishable from everyone else.

I imagine we will be in the Conference or well in the lower reaches if current trends continue to the middle of the century. Football is increasingly a spectator sport, and Millwall make the spectacle uncomfortable.
 

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It was probably nothing personal, they have been known to smash their own town up.

We're from London, mate. We don't have a town. :thumbs:
 

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I would care much less about this question, perhaps not at all, if ticket prices were not so expensive that it was obvious that football is nothing like a community institution. I would care even less if football supporters didn't regularly compare and sneer about success when it almost always has nothing to do with skill, or a mythical local knowledge and spirit, and everything to do with money.
 

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I did say 'for better or for worse,' to be fair.



There is a lot of defensive stuff in this post, which is fair enough given I implied that 90% of this division lacks soul, but you will never meet a Millwall supporter who claims that we are a big club and to attack us on ambition, crowd size and the conventional metrics for club status betrays a fundamental misunderstanding about Millwall and its supporters.

I'm also talking about trends. You're talking about the one or two times you've been to Millwall. I can't speak for Bristol City in specifics, but it seems likely they will go the way of your Hulls and Cardiffs. The only thing keeping them relatively grounded is lack of success, but that looks likely to change in the future. Ultimately, the club will be unrecognisable, but most depressingly indistinguishable from everyone else.

I imagine we will be in the Conference or well in the lower reaches if current trends continue to the middle of the century. Football is increasingly a spectator sport, and Millwall make the spectacle uncomfortable.
I'm not getting defensive, I agree with you a lot of grounds are shite in this league and some clubs have sold their soul for success - that's the modern game, you have to have a lot of the features to be a good side nowadays, but Millwall have done that as well have they not? Maybe not for success because that hasn't really come with it, but a new stadium that's pretty featureless, goal music etc?

My point is that Millwall aren't much different to the rest nowadays really.
 

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Nothing soulless about the Millwall lot at our place. Christ.
 

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I know, I used to live in New Cross. Town is Birmingham slang for city.

Pretty big city to smash up then, fella. I wish we had the manpower.
 

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