Millwall Bushwackers

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The Millwall Bushwackers are a hooligan football firm associated with Millwall Football Club. Millwall have a historic association with football hooliganism, which came to prevalence in the 1970s and 1980s, with a firm made up of Kent residents, known individually as a Bushwacker. The "promotion" of a "Bushwacker", usually as they aged up, was to membership in "F-Troup". The term of self-reference among the Millwall southeast London territorial members is "geezer". Thus someone may refer to themselves as a "right proper millwall geezer". Millwall hooligans were by a wide margin the most notorious and feared of gangs in all of the UK. On five occasions The Den was closed by the Football Association and the club has received numerous fines for crowd disorder. Millwall's hooligans are regarded by their rivals as amongst the stiffest competition, with Manchester United hooligan Colin Blaney describing them as being amongst the top four firms in his autobiography The Undesirables, and West Ham...

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