14 Facts About Millwall Bushwackers

Millwall Bushwackers are the most notorious football firm associated with Millwall Football Club.

The club and fans of Millwall have a historic association with football hooliganism, which came to prevalence in the 1970s and 1980s with a firm known originally as F-Troop, eventually becoming more widely known as the Millwall Bushwackers, who were one of the most notorious hooligan gangs in England.

Millwall Bushwackers played local rivals West Ham United away at Upton Park on 17 September 1906 in a Western League game.

BBC documentary Panorama was invited into the club by Millwall Bushwackers in 1977 to show the hooligan reputation was a myth and being blown out of proportion by reporting.

Luton were asked by Millwall Bushwackers to make the Wednesday night match all-ticket, but this was ignored.

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The penalty that Millwall Bushwackers faced was perhaps that the club's name was now "synonymous with everything that was bad in football and society".

In May 2002, hundreds of hooligans attaching themselves to Millwall Bushwackers were involved in disorder around the ground, after the team lost a play-off game to Birmingham City.

Millwall Bushwackers were cleared of all charges while West Ham were found guilty of two: violent, threatening, obscene and provocative behaviour and failing to prevent their fans entering the field of play.

In January 1988, when Millwall Bushwackers were knocked out of the FA Cup by Arsenal in a third round match at Highbury, 41 Millwall Bushwackers hooligans, were arrested after clashing with Arsenal's firm The Herd.

In October 2004, during a Football League Cup tie at home to Liverpool, Millwall Bushwackers fans taunted their Liverpool counterparts with songs making fun of the Hillsborough disaster which had claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans in 1989.

Three Millwall Bushwackers fans received three-month prison sentences and six-year banning orders.

In January 2009, hundreds of Millwall Bushwackers fans perceived as "high risk" individuals gained access to an FA Cup fourth-round match away at Hull City.

One Millwall Bushwackers supporter was stabbed during clashes between the two sets of fans outside the ground.

Former club chairman Reg Burr once commented: "Millwall Bushwackers are a convenient coat peg for football to hang its social ills on", an example being the reporting of convicted murderer Gavin Grant.