Would you believe I was actually regaling Chloe with stories of the Goldstone bovril and how it was only 50p a cup in the grubby little alley behind the North Stand? Not available at the Amex, inexplicably.
Think she was more impressed with the scrap though ...
Yes it was. Two rudimentary Third Division sides aimlessly lumping the ball around with beefy Danny Shittu and heroic Lewis Dunk the stand out players, to a backdrop of home crowd dissatisfaction and a few hundred Millwall fans trying to cause a fuss, breaking through the thin yellow line...
Chloe, 15, my friend's daughter, attended her first football match with us last night. The best bit she said was the atmosphere and especially the Millwall fans. She loved their mental reaction to their goal and was agog as they brought in some old school fight tactics to south 'terrace'. As we...