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Millwall Bushwackers is a hooligan firm associated with Millwall FC that originated in the early 1980s, an era of prominent football hooliganism.

Background

The original firm associated with Millwall was known as F-Troop. The Bushwackers were one of the most active firms in the 1980s. Their primary purpose was to cause trouble and fights at Millwall football matches. On occasion they were blamed for causing some of the worst acts of rioting in British football.

The Bushwackers took and adapted their name from groups, known as Bushwhackers that would ambush certain individuals and towns during the American Civil War.

The hooligan firm still exists today. However, the firm is not as large as it was at its height in the 1980s. This is due in part to ex-Millwall chairman Theo Paphitis' introduction of a membership scheme following the events outside The New Den on the evening of the Birmingham City play off semi-final in May 2002. Sergeant Russell Lamb of the Metropolitan Police Service, a veteran of the May Day and Poll Tax riots, described this as the worst violence he had ever experienced.

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Notes

  1. "Undercover with 'the firm'". BBC News. 2002-05-10. Retrieved 2007-09-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. Nicholls, Andy (September 2005). Hooligans: The A-L of Britain's Football Hooligan Gangs. Wrea Green: Milo Books. p. 210. ISBN 1903854415. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. "Injured officer describes 'battlefield'". BBC News. 2002-05-03. Retrieved 2007-02-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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