The seven-second video appears to have been recorded after the match, with a man wearing a flat-cap assaulting two Tottenham supporters singing an anti-Millwall song. Shorn of its political associations, the look was by now, if anything, more popular in London's Old Compton Street or Manchester's Canal Street than on football terraces or far-right rallies.

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Others found that, in an era when all gay men were widely assumed to be camp and effeminate, "you were less likely to get picked on if you looked like a queer-basher".He was also at the forefront of many of the fist fights, pitch battles and gang warfare that broke out between rival football firms in that era. When I started following the Baby Squad, I felt protected and also brave because now we had lads who would defend you through thick and thin.

‘Tiny’ - lionised by next generation Millwall fans

The problem of mob violence is not solely a Millwall problem, it is not a football problem, it is a problem which plagues the whole of our society", he said. The Twitter user who posted the video to the social media platform claims that the man who punched the Tottenham fan was a Millwall supporter.These included the NF - now split into two warring factions - and the British National Party, formed in 1982 by John Tyndall, which had begun to attract a significant football hooligan following. The Camberwell-born entrepreneur has joined forces with Tiny’s family to celebrate his memory while raising money to help train young people and get them into work.