last nights football violence....

[HattonTheHammer]

As a West Ham fan, I found that a complete embarassment, many of both sets of fans disgracing themselves, with the Millwall fans giving our players monkey chants, although I can say from experience that the home stand is far from a hub of racial equality.

Rushing onto the pitch in celebration AT THE END would of been understandable. Doing it during the game & trying to get onto the pitch to get at the Millwall fans was stupid & will damage the club financially no doubt, something we can definitely do without out.

What happened last night was not 'passion in the game', that's still there at every home game, what it was was a bunch of dickheads trying to show that they're 'still young/hard/up for it' or some other Danny Dyer-esque bollocks. As for the stuff goin on outside, well... fuck it... what can you say they're twats.

Although like hth says everyone knew it was going to happen, yet somehow the police still seemed ill-prepared & why they didn't prepare for a pitch invasion when we got the penalty I don't know

I would like to point out Jack Collison who was an image of pure class among the fat-bellied drunken dicks stumbling onto the pitch. On Sunday, his father died in a traffic accident on his way to see him play against Spurs, yet last night he put in a man of the match performance & also was key in getting fans to leave the pitch & go back to their seats. In a sea of idiots embarassing the club, at least he made me proud to support the club.

Jack Collison is the complete exception in this modern day world we live in. Not 48 hours after finding out his dad had been killed coming to watch him play and he throws on a west ham shirt when everyone would of fully understood him taking time out just shows the class of this fella. Young, hardworking, determained footballer - thats the west ham way

For what its worth i was one of the thousands booing the idiocy of those twats that chose to run onto the pitch and hope to god they all get life bans for being so stupid and bringing the club into disrepute.

The football club will be the biggest losers in all this and that guts me as we are potless as it is and will no doubt have to play a game or two behind closed doors costing the club millions. But the violence outside last night was years of pent up anger that spilled onto the streets and it should of been dealt with much better than it was!!

Sad fact of life that a few always spoil it. This again puts in jeopary Englands chances of hosting the big events. I have mate who support both teams involved and they are all good lads, pity they end up all being branded the same. You'd think that every fan was involved in it the way it gets covered.

As a Celtic Fan I know what it's like to get caught up in all of this shite.

Too true mate

it doesnt help when youve got old bill throwing you in with the ones who are fighting and smashing you with batons for no particular reason believing by doing this it`ll deter you from fighting

No problems whatsoever with organised violence, if 2 sets of supporters wanna kill eachother thats perfectly fine.

But what i saw on tuesday was far beyond that. A girl getting a glass smashed over her head just for wearing a millwall shirt. Fella initmidating supporters while his 3 year old boy looks on. Innocent bystanders leaving the scene of the crime having been pelted with bricks or tins of lager not to mention endless smashed up buses, cars etc

If you were in and around green street inparticularly outside the station around 6pm you would of witnessed something quite surreal and ive certainly never been apart of anything quite as large scale as that was!!