Peter Batten muses on the beautiful game…
I have to reveal a dark secret from my past. I was once a football fan. Not just any old fan, I was a MILLWALL football fan.
In fact, I am still a football fan, but more of that later. Two things drew me to ‘The Den’, the home of Millwall F.C. One was the fact that I could walk there easily from my home in Bermondsey. The other was the fact that my family came from Millwall, also known as the Isle of Dogs. My father first took me to The Den in 1945. Then, as I became a regular attender, I discovered that two or three of our relatives were usually in the crowd and I soon learned where to find them.
The Whistler 