Obvious really. The FA and the police should have seen the disorder at last night’s Carling Cup tie between West Ham and Millwall coming.
Nothing to do with East End rivalry. Nothing to do with Millwall’s notorious hooligan element.
The problems were started by lengthy queues at all cashpoints in the vicinity of Upton Park before kick-off. None of these professional Cockernees could decipher the rhyming slang.