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10 and a half things you never knew about..... Millwall

Henry IrvingHenry Irving
edited March 2010 in Fun, Jokes & Captions
1. The district of Millwall is in North London and takes its name from Sir Jeremy Millward, the man who developed what had been a plague burial pit in the 1690s. A Mill Ward is a guard employed to protect the grain at the windmill.

2. Millwall FC were formed by economic migrants manufacturing preserves. Most were members of a now disappeared religous cult, the Lions of Judah, hence the club's original badge of two lions flanking the child Jesus.

3. Despite their reputation Millwall have a higher percentage of both Solicitors and Hairdressers within their supporter base than any other London Club (1999 survey)

4. Famous Millwall fans include Danny Baker, Winston Churchill and Ken Livingstone.
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  • PL54PL54
    There were originally just 2 Millwall fans - a brother and sister from Nunhead - they had a baby together and so it started.

    There are about 6,000 in the family now.
  • AlgarveaddickAlgarveaddick
    edited March 2010
    6. It is clinically proven from records over the past 70 years that the length of Millwall supporters arms are on average 3.5" longer than the norm.
  • PlaaayerPlaaayer
    edited March 2010
    6. Millwall are known to have the biggest bandwagon following in the English football league.
  • Floyd MontanaFloyd Montana
    edited March 2010
    7. Millers Wall, as it was originally called, was named after a wretched one room prison constructed around an unemployed cex agricultural worker living in a foxhole, is the only place in Britain which has no form of government

    8. Early inhabitants of the area were discharged seamen who had floundered on the salty brine of Bermon's sea (now covered over by the Heygate Estate)

    9. Their first nickname, 'The Dockers' came from the time when the team changed in the store cupboard of Buyrite shoes emporium. At half time the owner would drum up business by wandering around the ground with a sailors sensible shoe nailed to a baseball bat. Poor acoustics in the away end led fans to believe he was shouting, ''buy my shoes, your dockers'' (even though he had nicked them from the cupboard)

    10. Everyone likes them, and they are really pleased about this
  • stonemusestonemuse
    11. Salt of the earth, would only do unto others as would be done to them, would never touch a scarfer, and any such rumours are truly scurrilous
  • Chris_from_SidcupChris_from_Sidcup
    edited March 2010
    12. Millwall have the highest percentage of overweight skinhead criminal supporters than any other English club

    13. Any crowd disorder at a game involving them is always the fault of the opposition supporters and never their own.
  • ValleyGaryValleyGary
    edited March 2010
    14. A popular Myth amongst the population of Bexleyheath, is that Millwall fans only come out between the hours of 3 to 5pm. Legends say that these fans must gain verbal power from a fountain located in the town centre. They are plastic and never seem to grow older than 16.
  • Friend Or DefoeFriend Or Defoe
    11. Everyone one of their fans was born on the Old Kent Road.
    12. The wall of sound is actually a request for a bottle of milk.
  • PlaaayerPlaaayer
    edited March 2010
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]11. Everyone one of their fans was born on the Old Kent Road Blue, Bermondsey.
    12. The wall of sound is actually a request for a bottle of milk.
  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    Millwall was a well known doggin site of the 1890z in east London. Most Millwall fans can trace their family back to this wall near a mill where sailors use to que up to "visit" the local "ladies".

    When they sing Milllllllllllwalllllllllllll it was the song that the "ladies" use to sing to lure sailors to the wall so they could "unload" .

    Its why most Millwall fans can grace e gene in their DNA back to the "ladies" at the mill wall. This gene has now been named as the "twat" gene and 99% of todays Millwall have this gene.
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  • ChizzChizz
    14. Mr and Mrs d'Ocker of Bermondsey were infamous supporters of Millwall FC in the pre-WW1 years. They had two children, but could not afford different names for each of them, so they were both called Noel. The eldest grew up to be a fan of Millwall, the younger supported West Ham. However, Millwall fans were of the opinion that all sons of a family should support the same club and refused to encourage the support of the first son. This fact was immortalised in their song:

    "Noel 1 likes us, we don't care"
  • Sparrows Lane LionSparrows Lane Lion
    Haven't you got any jokes/digs that are actually funny?

    All pretty poor in my opinion. The only one that raised anything close to half a smile was stonemuse.

    Get your thinking caps back on!
  • Chris_from_SidcupChris_from_Sidcup
    15. As much as they hate to admit it, Charlton is their cup final, a fact proven by them selling out a game for the first time since 1953.
  • PlaaayerPlaaayer
    edited March 2010
    [cite]Posted By: Sparrows Lane Lion[/cite]Haven't you got any jokes/digs that are actually funny?

    All pretty poor in my opinion. The only one that raised anything close to half a smile was stonemuse.

    Get your thinking caps back on!

    Is it because none of them, use the word c*nt?
  • Sparrows Lane LionSparrows Lane Lion
    Another poor one Chris.

    By the way, you still in Sidcup? What was happening last night with the chopper and massive explosion?
  • Sparrows Lane LionSparrows Lane Lion
    Plaaayer - now that one did make me smile!
  • Chris_from_SidcupChris_from_Sidcup
    [cite]Posted By: Sparrows Lane Lion[/cite]By the way, you still in Sidcup? What was happening last night with the chopper and massive explosion?

    Heard the helicopter, but didn't know there was an explosion.... sure someone on here knows more though.
  • ValleyGaryValleyGary
    [cite]Posted By: Sparrows Lane Lion[/cite]Haven't you got any jokes/digs that are actually funny?

    All pretty poor in my opinion. The only one that raised anything close to half a smile was stonemuse.

    Get your thinking caps back on!

    Who put 20p in him?
  • Sparrows Lane LionSparrows Lane Lion
    T'was a huge bang, a lot heard it, then the chopper with the search light in the skies and saw an Urban Search & Rescue van, god knows what it was all about.
  • paulbaconsarniepaulbaconsarnie
    millwalls published home attendances are in fact double the actual crowd.
    this is due to a unique ticketing system whereby fans purchase both a season ticket and match ticket.
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  • Floyd MontanaFloyd Montana
    edited March 2010
    10.5 Everyone at the toolbox understands the concept of the season ticket. Well (and this is for you Mr Loin), except some f@ckin' moron c@*ts
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    17.25. In 2007 the pink lions came runners up in the World Homosexual Animal contest. The were marginally pipped to top spot by a pair of morris dancing giraffes.
  • Floyd MontanaFloyd Montana
    10. 734 some Charlton fans have strange visions about Nillwall after eating little coloured tablets before lunch...
  • creepyaddickcreepyaddick
    [cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]millwalls published home attendances are in fact double the actual crowd.
    this is due to a unique ticketing system whereby fans purchase both a season ticket and match ticket.
    Brilliant! pmsl
  • MrLargoMrLargo
    16. A large proportion of Millwall's support is traditionally drawn from the employees of Royal Doulton, the famous producer of fine tableware and collectables, and consequently Millwall fan's are renowned over the years for furnishing their tables with the finest bone china crockery. They are also well known for their passionate insistence that tea and coffee should only ever be drunk from the correct vessel, that being a cup and saucer. This proud tradition lead to controversy in the 1970's, when the folk of Bermondsey boycotted a number of cafes which had begun serving hot beverages in newly fashionable "mugs" rather than the traditional cup and saucer. So appalled were the locals with the adoption of these uncouth new drink containers that the word "mug" developed into a popular insult which still thrives today, hence the well known phrase "do you want some you fackin mug?!"

    17. Millwall have never won a cup, nor have they ever won a mug.
  • JorgeCostaJorgeCosta
    94. The New Den was originally known as the SELCHP Waste Incineration Facility Stadium. SELCHP subsequently withdrew their sponsorship when they discoverd that being associated with Millwall was tarnishing the reputation of the waste disposal industry.
  • LenGloverLenGlover
    edited March 2010
    There is such confusion over match day sales at the New Den that fans have been asked to bring their own seats from other grounds to ensure that they have one.

    Stuwall has apparently nicked a seat from 84 league grounds and is believed to be leader.
  • PL54PL54
    [cite]Posted By: Sparrows Lane Lion[/cite]T'was a huge bang, a lot heard it, then the chopper with the search light in the skies and saw an Urban Search & Rescue van, god knows what it was all about.

    Whatever it was, Millwall didn't do it - it was West Ham or those chaps from Norwich or the Old Bill.
  • IAIA
    After the first leg of their UEFA Cup adventure, Millwall were cursed by a gypsey woman angry that Ferencvaros had only drawn at the Toolbox. Since then, no matter where they go, Millwall fans are taunted and provoked by opposition fans and seats at away grounds. Sometimes the curse is so strong that they lose control of themselves and retaliate, against the opposing team, against the opposing fans and often against the opposing seats, but that's not what they're really like deep down.
  • NorthStandUltraNorthStandUltra
    All Millwall season tickets are sent with a free Nickleson polo shirt & baseball cap, plus information on where to buy Jeans & Reebok classics in order to complete the Pwopa Nawghty look.

    The Bushwackers were in fact a rather nice group and not like those horrible ICF boys from over the river.
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