One of Millwall's most notorious football hooligans has revealed which club had the 'hardest firm' he ever came up against.
Ginger Bob was notorious in the 1970s and 80s as one of the leaders of the feared Millwall Bushwackers firm.
The South East London club, which is looking to secure a place in the Championship play-off places this season, has shrugged off its infamous past in recent years but its legacy remains.
At the forefront of that was Ginger Bob, who joined the firm aged 15.
Now slightly toothless and a lot older, he appeared on James English's Anything Goes podcast where he spoke about his memories from the “glory days” of football hooliganism.
During the nearly 90 minute walk down violent memory lane, he pointed to the one club that had the “toughest firm” he'd ever come up against.
He said: “I've got to give it to Cardiff City.
“Cardiff had an around 3-4,000-person-strong firm while Millwall – with around 300 – had nowhere to run. My mates thought they were going to die.
“The best row I had ever seen was on March 18, 1976.
“We had 300 firm and they had 2,000... and some of our people were getting stabbed.
“One of my friends got captured by Cardiff and he was being beaten to death . . . so I've gone back into Cardiff's firm and pulled him along the floor.
“Because of the adrenaline I managed to pull him back, but when we got back to the station Cardiff's firm and the police were all laughing.”
Police told them all to get on an empty train to London – but only 50 of the group did.
This led to Bob giving the rest of the firm a “Council of War” speech, and told them to go back to Cardiff's baying mob and “kick them”.
So, now down to just 250 against around 2,000 angry Welsh blokes, the groups went head to head once more.
He recalled: “We kicked the gates in, ran riot, and smashed all the pubs up. The police had to come back and force us back.
“That was a day before my 18th birthday – it was just like the wild west.”
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