Ash The Bash : '' I'm A Wheelchair Hooligan '' |Ep.89

I think that's where you should ask another

question because he's just firing it.

When he told me that we're bringing you on, I was like, first thing I said, yeah, is obviously, look, I like football.

I've been into football, but then I came away from it for a little while.

And then obviously it's just one of them ones where I was like, listen, is he like one of them Millwall fans that you've got to be careful with? Like, is he going to like start smashing up the place if he's not talking about someone else? And I'm like, listen, I know we live like around West Ham, but it's like...

I don't know.

You just got to be wary sometimes.

And basically, based off of what I was just about to say, because I'm just rambling on a little bit, is Millwall the way that it's perceived online and everything like

that? So basically, you want to know about the reputation of Millwall and is it still like that? Is it still like that? Well, let me tell you something.

The people from the 80s and the 70s that were involved in the hooliganism they're still alive.

They're still about most of them anyway.

Yeah.

So they didn't just disappear.

They're still there.

But what changed was the club, the club wanted to try and gentrify itself, make itself more, you know, into a competitive football team that's competitive, compatible with the premier league.

Um, so obviously this meant stamping out a lot of things.

And to be honest with you, Millwall, I don't know if you know this, but they were the first club, um, to, to do the anti-racism campaign to kick racism out of football.

Um, So a lot of people think Millwall is associated with racism, but actually they were one of the first teams to stamp out racism, which meant that a lot of, like some fans, they lost their season tickets, they lost, you know, and it's not just in Millwall, you get it in every club, but it's only the highlight just seems to be Millwall all the time.

See, I was going to come to that next, Ash, because me being a hardcore Liverpool fan and being very active on X, which formerly was Twitter, and you actually realise racism isn't a thing that's just that one particular club.

It's actually an ongoing problem.

Let's just say it as it is.

It's not a thing that, you know, I think with Millwall, because we're from here, the East End and this sort of area where Millwall, West Ham, everyone knows the history with the club, which I want to go into in a bit.

Yeah.

And I think in general, I always show him and I say, look what someone said to me today.

And it is the worst of the worst level of racism from your own fan base.