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London football fan who fought attackers barehanded shouted 'F*** you, I’m Millwall'

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Dalek

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London attack: Football fan shouted 'F*** you, I’m Millwall' and took on knife-wielding terrorists with his bare fists


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A football fan reportedly yelled “F**k you, I’m Millwall” as he single-handedly took on the three knife-wielding London terror attackers armed with nothing more than his fists.

Roy Larner has already been hailed a hero, with a petition launched for him to be awarded the George Cross medal for his actions in the Black and Blue steakhouse on Saturday night.

In fighting back, the 47-year-old Millwall fan gave dozens of others who were in the Borough Market restaurant the chance to escape.
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Now out of the intensive care ward of St Thomas’ Hospital, where he was treated for knife wounds all over his body including his neck, the father-of-one has told The Sun how he reacted when the killers burst into the restaurant shouting “Islam, Islam” and “This is for Allah”.

“Like an idiot,” he told the newspaper, “I shouted back at them. I thought, ‘I need to take the p*** out of these b******s’.”

“I took a few steps towards them and said, ‘F*** you, I’m Millwall’. So they started attacking me.”

Mr Larner added: “I stood in front of them trying to fight them off. Everyone else ran to the back.

“I was on my own against all three of them, that’s why I got hurt so much.

“It was just me, trying to grab them with my bare hands and hold on. I was swinging.

“I got stabbed and sliced eight times. They got me in my head, chest and both hands. There was blood everywhere.

“They were saying, ‘Islam, Islam!’. I said again, ‘F*** you, I’m Millwall!’

“It was the worst thing I could have done as they carried on attacking me.

“Luckily, none of the blows were straight at me or I’d be dead.”
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Mr Larner’s actions have won him a huge following on social media, where he has been called “The Lion of London Bridge”, a reference to Millwall Football Club’s nickname the Lions.

Fans of the south London club have long prided themselves on their refusal to duck a fight, celebrating their intimidating reputation with the chant: “No-one likes us, we don’t care.”
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Mr Larner has certainly made his mother proud.

Phyllis Larner, 78, told The Sun: “He’s fearless, my son. He’ll give as good as he gets.

“He’s quite nippy and lippy and wouldn’t back down from a fight.

“He wouldn’t care who it was or if they had a knife or gun.”
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Mr Larner, from Peckham, south-east London, said the attackers eventually “ran out of the pub and legged it”.
Despite his injuries, he said he followed them outside.

“It wasn’t until I was in a police car,” said Mr Larner, “That I realised I was in a bad way. I’d been sliced up all over.”

“I didn’t think of my safety at the time,” he added. “I’d had four or five pints — nothing major.


“I can handle myself. But I was out with an old person and it was out of order.”

As he recovers in hospital, Mr Larner’s friends have brought him a running magazine. The front cover headline reads: “Learn to run.”
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SpaceWolf

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“He’s quite nippy and lippy and wouldn’t back down from a fight.
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I'd love to see this as the tagline on the poster for the inevitable movie adaptation.

He's nippy. He's lippy...

....he doesn't back down from a fight.

"I AM MILLWALL"
 
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SwiftDeath

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lol I love British humor

As he recovers in hospital, Mr Larner's friends have brought him a running magazine. The front cover headline reads: ”Learn to run."
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Hope he makes a full recovery, he's definitely a hero
 
Charles Brandon

Charles Brandon

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Probably about the first time Millwall has ever been associated with anything positive but respect is due I suppose.

What's this about a pint?
 
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Switch Back 9

a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Who is the other guy who wouldn't leave his pint? Haha fucking Brits, good on ya.
 
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Imperfected

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Repeatedly shouting "Fuck you, I'm Millwall!" while people stab you sounds like something out of a Sealab episode. Love that quintessentially British humor from his friends, though.
 
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BossDarkseid

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Jazzy Geoff said:
Probably about the first time Millwall has ever been associated with anything positive but respect is due I suppose.

What's this about a pint?
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When police evacuated a bar someone refused to run and just walk at a steady pace because their pint cost so much even a terrorist attack wasn't gonna make them waste it. Or so i believe.
 
Charles Brandon

Charles Brandon

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Soapbox Killer said:
I don't know too many British Super Heroes, but this dude just made the list!
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I'd be careful about being too effusive with your praise. He's done good here, no doubt, but one can't help but wonder if Mr "fucking nutter who fights multiple armed assailants with his bare hands" Lamer may have used his violence powers for evil, in the past, as well as good.
 
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darscot

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The flight or fight response is so fucking crazy and unpredictable. It just one of those fascinating things about nature and evolution. I don't think there is any way to predict or predetermine which way you're going to go it just happens.
 
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D4Danger

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darscot said:
The flight or fight response is so fucking crazy and unpredictable. It just one of those fascinating things about nature and evolution. I don't think there is any way to predict or predetermine which way you're going to go it just happens.
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Millwall fans don't have a flight response.
 
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Omegasquash

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Defiance in the face of and on the receiving end of terrorism, and he still tells them what's up.

That guy ought to have free pints for life, and then some, at any pub in London. Along with a medal, advertising deals, and dinner with the Queen.
 
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