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Millwall hooligan names surprise pick for 'toughest firm' he ever faced and it's not West Ham

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Updated 11:51 8 Apr 2025 GMT+1Published 11:41 8 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Millwall hooligan names surprise pick for 'toughest firm' he ever faced and it's not West Ham

A former Millwall hooligan has named the 'toughest firm' he faced.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

A Millwall hooligan snubbed rivals West Ham United when naming the 'toughest firm' he has ever faced.

'Ginger Bob' was a leading hooligan with Millwall's feared 'Bushwackers' and joined the 'firm', aged 11.

He got into his first brawl on a train at 13 before becoming one of Millwall's most infamous football hooligans.

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The ex-football brute was a chief in the firm during the 1970s and 1980s and lived a life of violence throughout his adulthood.

In 2023, Bob, now in his sixties, sat down with James English to talk about his notorious role as a football hooligan in Millwall's feared firm.

He recalled a meet-up with around 4,000 Cardiff City fans, naming them as the 'toughest firm' he has faced.

"I've got to give it to Cardiff City," he said on Anything Goes with James English, when asked to pick the 'toughest firm'.

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A former Millwall hooligan named Cardiff City as the 'toughest firm' he faced. Image: Getty
A former Millwall hooligan named Cardiff City as the 'toughest firm' he faced. Image: Getty

Bob added: "Cardiff had an around 3-4,000-person-strong firm while Millwall - with around 300 - had nowhere to run. Some of my mates thought they were going to die."

He wasn't involved in that particular scrap, having left the ground to avoid being arrested before it all kicked off.

However, the 'best' fight he had as a hooligan was against The Bluebirds on March 28, 1976, when Cardiff welcomed Millwall to the Welsh capital.

"We had 300 firm, they had 2,000," he recalled. "Some of our people were getting stabbed.

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"One of my friends got captured by Cardiff and he was being beaten to death... so I've gone back into Cardiff's firm and pulled him along the floor.

"People were attacking me but because of the adrenaline I managed to block them.

"When we got back to the station, Cardiff's firm and the police were all laughing."

Bob continued: "We kicked the gates in, ran riot, and smashed all the pubs up. The police had to come back and force us back.

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"That was 28th March 1976, the day before my 18th birthday - it was just like the Wild West."

Featured Image Credit: Anything Goes/Getty

Topics: Millwall, Cardiff City, Football

Nasir Jabbar
Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar is a journalist at SPORTbible. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in Media Communications. He's a combat sport aficionado and has contributed to MMA websites AddictedMMA and CagePotato. Nasir has covered some of the biggest fights, while interviewing the likes of Conor McGregor, Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Darren Till. He's also an avid Bristol City fan.

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