“… Julian Dicks is describing to The Athletic his memories of playing in a match between Millwall and West Ham United — one of the fiercest and most notorious derbies in English football. While he is able to laugh about it now, the sheer scale of the rivalry is clear. … Dicks adds that after the game, police officers had to shield his team off the field and that the windows of the team bus were smashed when they returned, but this was ‘fairly normal back then’. Nearly 30 years on, times have changed, but the antipathy remains, despite the two London sides not having met since 2012, when West Ham won 2-1 at their former Upton Park ground, and an 18-year-old Harry Kane was brought on as a substitute for Millwall. …”
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