The fans zone beforehand with family and friends - ages ranging from 4 to 70. Fantastic atmosphere. The kids interviewed for Nickleodeon/Sky Sports - the youngest suggesting that we were about to win 33-0. The match - what can you say? The best 90 minutes of a lifetime watching this team. People around me weeping tears of emotion. Young Ashley as cool as you like at that age - phenomenal. That goal from Adam - we'll never see a better one. Young Isgrove leaping for that header - how did he manage to get up there? Hecky's joy that Young Isgrove had scored that goal. Hecky still focussed at the end. Calm as always - not getting carried away. You can bet he was already planning for next season. The celebrations at the end. I am getting emotional just thinking of it now. Seeing most of the London Tykes on the way out. Only downside - answering a call of nature in Weatherspoons on Victoria station (full of morose looking Millwall fans). The first of their fans I came across (a large ugly man with tatoos all over his body) came up to me and called me "a Northern lovely person. I thanked him for that and move on only to be confronted with another equally ugly Millwall fan. However he thrust his hand out shook me by the hand and said "Well done Barnsley - you were better than us. Good luck next season". Faith in human nature restored. Finally memory - my dear sister posting nonsense on Facebook in the early hours as the champagne took hold.
Thats a great account of the day. The Millwall fans we came across, going towards Wembley Stadium station, were very gracious towards us and wishing us well for next season.
I was looking for the bogs on Wembley Park tube station and a Millwall fan stuck out his hand and wished us the best of luck. Really felt sorry for the chap after the behaviour of some "fans" in the top tier near the end of the game.
That's the problem isn't it. Most of Millwall's fans will be perfectly sane, peaceful fans who are just like fans anywhere, but they all get tarred with the same brush. I think it must be quite difficult sometimes to be a "normal" Millwall fan and stay positive about your club because you know the reputation they have as thugs will last a lifetime. I absolutely hate it when our club gets bad press, I just want everyone to think how brilliant we are, and am loving it at the moment reading comments from other clubs fans about how we were the best team in the division etc. knowing that you support a club that will never have a good press or reputation must be the pits.
I saw that clown covered in tattoos on Wembley Way, and subtly photographed him as he looked so absolutely bizarre. I wonder if anyone has ever employed him....
I called in them bogs on platform 4 before the match and someone had **** (pardon my language) in the urinal.
