No boos as Millwall fans applaud anti-racism gesture before draw with QPR

08-Dec-2020 21:56:35 | The Guardian

As Millwall had acknowledged, this was a night when the eyes of the football world were on the club from south-east London. But despite warning before the match that “they want us to fail”, this time there was no repetition of the events that marred their previous game here, with both sets of players standing arm-in-arm before kick-off in a welcome show of solidarity against racism.

After a week during which Millwall’s reputation has been once more placed in the dock, there was a tangible sense of relief as applause rather than booing broke out among the 2,000 supporters – a feeling that returned later when the substitute Jon Bodvarsson’s equaliser rescued a point for Gary Rowett’s side after Ilias Chair’s stunning goal for Queens Park Rangers.