Millwall F.C.–West Ham United F.C. rivalry

Cockney wankers.

I went to Millwall West Ham two, three weeks ago, down at the Den.

It was interesting.

Really interesting.

... there's a lot of tourists and everything.

Yeah, yeah.

You go Millwall West Ham, it's, it's not like that.

No, no.

That's the phrase I'm using a lot.

Even though I was trying to then explain it to our director on the day when we did the Millwall West Ham game, who is a Brentford fan, and there's quite a few in our building, isn't there? And he was adamant that you can call it a London derby, even though geographically it's surrounded by...

I live in West London, as you well know, and I've had to try and get myself over to West Ham a few times, and it's easier to get to the Midlands than... to be honest so

if we were doing Birmingham against I don't know yeah Brentford as a derby then we're in big trouble

Mm-hmm.

And then on the other side was Millwall West Ham.

Better game.

I was actually watching more Millwall West Ham, especially that last 10 minutes, than I was Tottenham Villa.

Yeah.

Seriously.

Is this basically just because they are now two teams that geographically are quite close and therefore in the same league, so it becomes a derby? Or is there actually historic, given that we are now the guys who attend derbies and make content about them? the Derby guys we are the Derby guys and also Derby guys because we have sponsored by Loaded who are Derby's front of shirt sponsor

all I know is that Kieran Oldham fan on NTT20 squad bear in mind as you just reminded us Oldham lost to Rochdale last weekend that was very much Derby day in Greater Manchester as framed by Kieran and that was on the same weekend as West Ham Millwall and Wolves West Brom so actually it was bad of us not to mention that when we were talking about all the Derby

but he said I

did don't worry But he said, you know, for some generations of Oldham fans, Rochdale's are the big ones.

Let's then talk about that game then.

Obviously, you came down to the Millwall-West Ham game.

Assuming that was your first Millwall-West Ham game? Very much so, yeah.

I thought so.

I just thought I'd ask.

You've got half time before the game to do that if you want to do it.

There'll be certain games like... certain very sort of delicate games like for example Millwall West Ham last week you know if you're gonna allow people to drink even more during the game I don't know what the I don't think it'd be good to allow that I have been I have watched games in Germany where I have just sat on non-league games as well to be fair where I have been sat down you know with a beer and it's been a really as a novelty, the novelty.

Yeah, it's great.

It's really good, but don't, I don't know whether, I mean, I'm not going to kick off about it if it happens or anything, but I, I'm not entirely sure it's needed because you've got the rest of the day to have a drink basically would be my view.

Uh, slightly relieved West Ham fan, Dan, this is from.

When Mohamedou Kante got sent off during the barnstorming end to Millwall West Ham, Five Live reporter Mike Williams said the following.

You could argue Kante did the only thing he could do.

He prevented a near certain goal, the Frenchman, who earlier dragged West Ham back into it by scoring their first here at the Den.

Yeah

... with that one.

Uh, early bath from Mike Williams at Millwall West Ham, that is going into Division Two.

Uh, couldn't hit a barn door, uh, Ian and I have now relegated that to Division Two, in brackets, potentially with a banjo.

Last night, a nice little momentum boost for us going into the weekend.

You missed the Dockers derby at the weekend.

JB and I both caught it.

It was unreal.

What a goal he could have scored.

I don't think there've been many better Dockers Derby goals than that one, um, had that gone in.

Um, 30 yards from goal, first time, absolutely thundered it against the crossbar in first half stoppage time.

And yet it didn't even matter 'cause Millwall went two-nil up regardless at halftime and scored even later, um, in stoppage time.

Um, like I say, in a modern-day climate where that doesn't always happen.

Um, you get players that, that come from abroad, and they have their own derbies, um, but it's hard to get yourselves into the mentality of a local derby when you don't know it as well.

Um, which is why every time anyone ever mentions the derbies and goes, "Oh, the South Coast derby, the Dockers derby, um, the Black Country derby, Villa, um, West Brom." Everyone has their own opinions on what the best derbies are, but it's so difficult to know because everyone thinks their derby's the best.

It's the team you wanna beat, um, which is, yeah, like I say, I thought James Morrison as manager would have had such a big impact, um, going in.