A Millwall hooligan called 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.

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 West Ham fans, naming them as the ‘toughest firm’ he has faced.

“I’ve got to give it to West Ham united,” he said on Anything Goes with James English, when asked to pick the ‘toughest firm’.

Bob added: “West Ham had 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 West Ham welcomed Millwall.

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

“One of my friends got captured by West Ham and he was being beaten to death… so I’ve gone back into West Ham 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, Hammer’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.

“That was 28th March 1976, the day before my 18th birthday – it was just like the Wild West.”