Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from Millwall fans. Wembley have to take some blame. Why wasn't the top tier behind the goal opened first for our fans. Yet they let their fans have wherever they wanted. No police, and stewards half asleep. Kids crying, some folk running. Although some of the lads stood firm at the bottle throwing. Anyway it's over.
I take it you mean glass bottles. How did they manage to get them in? I had to have a bottle of water poured into a plastic glass.
Looked like hell up there from where we were sat blokes running full circle round the top tier to get to the Barnsley fans who were heavily out numbered up there and many were family's by looks. Typical milwall. Was they any aggro before the 3rd goal?
We were sat close to you then and it was horrendous. I have never seen women and children fleeing in a football ground (or any other situation for that matter) and some of the young children were in tears, which is entirely understandable. I was hit by a coin (only on my leg) which is fine but it could have hit a small child on the head or face, and I could hear loads pinging off the seats. They are the scourge of football and I would ban them from Oakwell fir at least the next ten years.
Yes, mate, the aggro from the Millwall fans started as soon as Fletcher scored. The stewards had plenty of time to call for reinforcements or for police. A video taken by a Millwall fan on a newspaper website (announcing the attendance) shows the thin line of stewards in blue, with loads of Millwall fans running to get there, and only 4 yellow-jacketed police. I was sitting in the front row with my 2 young sons in Block 501.
That's **** we was going to wait until those blocks opened aswell as we took our 2 children and they were the more resnoble seats. Glad we didn't in end. Still had a group of Millwall lads eyeballing me as I walked off Wembley way and back to hotel after game. Actually thought one of em was going to do summat (I had my four year old son on my shoulders too) and my wife and daughter with me wife was abit frightened too they really are scum.
I only saw a full plastic Fanta bottle thrown by Millwall fans - still could have hurt someone, though.
No-one should have to go to a match these days and feel frightened or intimidated! The last time I felt like that was Millwall at the Old Den in the 1980's (Cold Blow Lane, was it, through railway arches or summat?). Surprisingly I didn't feel frightened or intimidated at Wembley.
Same at Rotherham a couple of seasons ago, trying to get into the Family Stand, attacking women and children seems to be their specialty, dock points off them for next season.
I was in 502 too. It was horrendous. If grown men want to scrap that's up to them, but it was the indiscriminate nature that struck me. The coin throwing and other things, they could have seriously injured someone. A kid, an old person. Thats what struck me as the worst thing. Families being encouraged to run for their own safety shouldn't be happening in 2016, in the national stadium. A couple other things which let this happen, other then Millwall fans being ****s. 1) Why are Wembley/the FA/football league/Sky or whoevers decision it is, so desperate to make the stadium look full on telly? Who gives a ****. With all the camera angles these days everyone knows when a stadium is empty. So at the risk of childrens safety we have to sit 3 feet away from these dicks. 2) Where the fvck were the police? It took them around 10 minutes to show up while £8 an hour stewards battled to keep order. I'm guessing they were raking the overtime in yesterday and with no-one outside and only 2 potential places for incident inside they should have been there. Every other game I've ever been to has had a police presence inside the ground, but not this, with 30,000 Millwall fans there??
Yes they love picking on familys there famous for it. Saw a old fat milwall bloke near tube entrance try his luck with some lads in red shirts and got a slap.
You're damn right it shouldn't. I'm still angry about what happened and I was in block 113 at the lower level, not actually in the mix up in 501/502. It took the shine for me off the last 10 minutes because I was just watching the morons run around the top to join in, and fearing the worst for those up there, whilst getting angry about where the **** the Police were, why they weren't up there and that there were Barnsley families being forced to flee. And then, instead of just enjoying the victory and the celebrations that followed, although I did enjoy it, at the back of my mind was the thought that we still had to make it back down Wembley Way and onto the Northbound tube back to Stanmore without incident. In the end, the trek back was uneventful for us. I thought beforehand that any trouble would come on the way in rather than on the way out as one set of fans would be long gone before the other came out, and that is how it mainly transpired - we just missed the melee and bottle throwing on Wembley way as we were half way up the slope when it kicked off behind us, but I was pretty apprehensive at the top of the slopes when the separated fans came back together. No way in a million years though did I think that there would be any issue with safety whilst actually INSIDE the stadium. That's unforgivable.
Thank God it wasn't an FA Cup Semi Final, where nothing was won on the day for the winning fans to stay behind for, and both sets of fans therefore come out together. It would have been bloody carnage.
being a big hairy arsed chuff i was not too bothered about all the hype( obs not condoning any form of indiscrimate violence) but whilst only seeing the idiocy of what happened in the upper tier from afar i can honestly say every single Millwall fan i saw whether man women child or mostly beast looked like they wanted to kill and eat anything that was put infront of them
I was in 501 and didn't realise until seeing the press photos today how close the Millwall animals (refuse to use the word Fans) actually got to us. Whoever made the decision to put the two sets of fans so close together needs to be fired. The Milwall fans had the full run of their half but we were hemmed in between two strips of the brown netting which I can now confirm isnt easy to cross! The Milwall "mob" just lifted it and pushed it infront of them, they are obviously well practised.
Police and football authorities are failing football supporters whose are paying their wages through extortionate ticket prices. After walking along Wembley Way with Oxford supporters a few weeks ago everyone knew what to expect yesterday bar the Police. The situation in the upper tier was created by seating a few hundred Barnsley fans yards away from Millwall scumbags in the upper tier and despite the efforts of stewards was compounded by the late arrival of the Keystone cops. The FA then announce they will work with Police in identifying offenders despite press photos showing one scumbag detained by the fuzz yet no arrests were made inside the stadium. The suits at the FA will once again fudge the issue by administering a small fine and a warning and the problem will continue. The only way is to punish the club by points deduction. Full story and pictures on link below, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3615235/
The police/Wembley have a lot to answer for for allowing the conditions for this to happen. I hope Mansford and Maurice push them to do so. While we we're at it, let's ban Millwall from bringing any fans to Oakwell for the foreseeable. Get Ben in all the national press/media talking about it to properly embarrass them publically. Then maybe they'll be forced to show they're prepared to weed out the sub-human contingent of their followers.