Millwall FC

Millwall FC
Basic data
Surname	Millwall Football Club
Seat	London Bermondsey
founding	1885
Board	John Berylson
Website	millwallfc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach	Gary Rowett
Venue	The Den , London
Places	20,146
league	EFL Championship
2019/20	8th place
home Away Alternatively

The FC Millwall (officially: Millwall Football Club ), formerly "Millwall Rovers" and "Millwall Athletic" - also known as The Lions (the lions) - is an English football club in southeast London .

Club history

The club was founded in the summer of 1885 by Scottish workers from the Morton Jam Factory , which supplied food to merchant ships. The club colors blue and white correspond to those of the Scottish national flag . The club's name is derived from the Millwall Docks on the Isle of Dogs .

The team plays at The Den stadium, which was inaugurated in 1993 on Zampa Road in Bermondsey , after the old stadium, a few hundred meters further south, was demolished. The new stadium, which was officially called “The New Den” until 2007, has a capacity of 20,146 spectators and on January 10, 1994, the FA Cup match against Arsenal was the largest ever with 20,093 spectators. Based on its club logo, the team is also called The Lions . After around a hundred years in the lower divisions, Millwall was promoted to the highest English league (then called First Division ) for the first time at the end of the 1987/88 season . In its first season as a first division club , the club was able to hold its own and was even at the top of the table after five matchdays. Millwall finished tenth at the end of the season. In the following season 1989/90 , the Lions did not manage to stay up after initially good results and were relegated. Since then, Millwall commuted several times between the second and third division.

One of the greatest successes was reaching the FA Cup final on May 22, 2004 . Led by Dennis Wise , the team lost 3-0 to Manchester United . However, as the Red Devils qualified for the Champions League , Millwall moved into the UEFA Cup . There they lost 2004/05 in the first round against the Hungarian record champions Ferencváros Budapest . This was the club's first and so far only European appearance, a stark contrast for the fans to the dreary Tuesday evenings in small towns in southern England, which a well-known book by a Millwall fan describes (Barrie Stradling: Tuesday Night at Grimsby: Diary of a Millwall Masochist ) .

In the 2014/2015 season, the club rose from third from bottom of the Football League Championship in Football League One . In 2015/16 Millwall missed promotion to the championship (2nd division) due to a 3-1 defeat in the playoff final against Barnsley.

On May 20, 2017, Millwall rose to the second division (Championship) after a 1-0 win over Bradford in the final of the qualifying round. Steve Morrison scored the goal in the 85th minute.

Known players

The best-known players who were under contract with Millwall were Alex Stepney (1963–1966), Teddy Sheringham (1984–1991), Tony Cascarino (1987–1990), Kasey Keller (1990–1996) and Tim Cahill (1997–2004 ). Many fans consider ex-players who have always been loyal to the club, always showed 100% commitment and played physically, such as Harry Cripps, Barry Kitchener, Terry Hurlock, Keith Stevens and Neil Harris, the club's record goal scorer and current coach is. So far the only German player at Millwall was Uwe Fuchs (1995-1996).

Fans

The club recruits its fans mainly from the poorer districts in south and south-east London. The traditional nemesis is West Ham United . Millwall has been notorious for decades for its irrepressible, vocal and sometimes violent fans (e.g. the Millwall Bushwackers ). There was a riot on May 2, 2002 in the area around the stadium after Millwall lost a playoff home game against Birmingham City for promotion to the Premier League 1-0. On August 25, 2009 there were again violent riots during a league cup game at West Ham United. The game had to be interrupted three times by the referee because there were brawls in the stands. A man was injured in the chest area in a knife fight after the game and outside the stadium. The hooligan image of Millwall fans also appears in the films Hooligans (with Elijah Wood); Hooligans 2 , Rise of the Footsoldier and The Football Factory , in which Millwall supporters are portrayed as extremely brutal and violent.

But in the context of the terrorist attack in London on June 3, 2017 , Roy Larner at least caused a brief change of image for the otherwise feared fans. After the three Islamist attackers stabbed several passers-by at random, Larner confronted the three terrorists, who were armed with stabbing weapons, unarmed. Your “Islam! Islam! ”- He answered calls with“ Fuck you, I'm Millwall ”and became a celebrated hero of the English media. So commented presenter Piers Morgan on his show Good Morning Britain "There are moments when one is glad to have a Millwall fan nearby." The Swedish singer Anders Fridén and David Mortimer, in Stockholm , the brewery Frequency BW operate , brewed a new beer in honor of Larner and named it Fuck you, I'm Millwall .

The best-known battle cry of Millwall fans is: “ 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. "It is sung to the tune of Rod Stewart's song" Sailing ".

Squad of the 2018/19 season

No. position Surname 1 TW Jordan Archer 2 FROM Conor McLaughlin 3 FROM James Meredith 4th FROM Shaun Hutchinson 5 FROM Jake Cooper 6th MF Shaun Williams 7th MF Jed Wallace 8th MF Ben Thompson 9 ST Lee Gregory 10 MF Fred Onyedinma 11 MF Shane Ferguson 12 FROM Mahlon Romeo 13 TW Ben Amos 14th ST Tom Bradshaw

No. position Surname 15th FROM Alex Pearce 16 TW David Martin 18th MF Ryan Tunnicliffe 19th ST Tom Elliott 20th ST Steve Morison ( ) 22nd ST Aiden O'Brien 25th FROM Murray Wallace 26th MF Jiří Skalák 27 FROM James Brown 28 MF Ryan Leonard 34 MF Harry Donovan 44 MF Ben Marshall - TW Tom King

League affiliation

• 1920–1928: Football League Third Division
• 1928–1934: Football League Second Division
• 1934–1938: Football League Third Division
• 1938–1948: Football League Second Division
• 1948–1958: Football League Third Division
• 1958–1962: Football League Fourth Division
• 1962–1964: Football League Third Division
• 1964–1965: Football League Fourth Division
• 1965-1966: Football League Third Division
• 1966–1975: Football League Second Division
• 1975–1976: Football League Third Division
• 1976–1979: Football League Second Division
• 1979–1985: Football League Third Division
• 1985–1988: Football League Second Division
• 1988–1990: Football League First Division
• 1990–1992: Football League Second Division
• 1992–1996: Football League First Division
• 1996-2001: Football League Second Division
• 2001-2004: Football League First Division
• 2004–2006: Football League Championship
• 2006-2010: Football League One
• 2010–2015: Football League Championship
• 2015-2017: Football League One / EFL League One
• 2017– 0000: EFL Championship

literature

• Richard Linsday, Eddie Tarrant: Millwall - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby 2010, ISBN 978-1-85983-833-4 .
• "The Millwall Special". In: Ballesterer Fußballmagazin No. 10, 2003

Web links

• official homepage

Individual evidence / explanations

1. ↑ West Ham v Millwall - A Look at the Rivalry that burns London (English; article from February 4, 2012)
2. ↑ FA to probe Upton Park violence . British Broadcasting Corporation , August 26, 2009, accessed March 29, 2016.
3. ↑ English people celebrate Roy Larner: "Fuck you, I am Millwall" (June 7, 2017)
4. ↑ London terror hero gets his own beer (article from June 20, 2017)