Millwall fans have been praised by charity fundraisers for their generosity during their day out at Wembley, wrote Michael Stringer in this week's Mercury newspaper.
Colin Phillips, who has been collecting at 14 different events to raise money for Armed Forces charity Help For Heroes, said Millwall's play-off final with Swindon saw fans give the most cash.
That was despite the rain and the stadium not being full to capacity. Mr Phillips, who runs a skip hire company in east London, got in touch with our sister paper the South London Press to pay tribute to the Lions' fans.
He said: "Millwall fans generally have a bad reputation but I would like to thank all those supporters who attended the play-off final at Wembley for their outstanding generosity.
I was present with nine other volunteers to sell wristbands and collect funds for the Help for Heroes charity just outside the stadium.
As soon as we arrived it started to rain and previous experiences have shown that it does not contribute to a good day for fundraising - how wrong we were."
The group of volunteers raised more than £9,000 and Mr Phillips says most of it came from Millwall fans - even before they were on a high from their 1-0 win on May 29.
He said: "The Millwall fans' generosity was unprecedented.
For myself and fellow volunteers this was our 14th event this season and the amount we raised in difficult conditions far surpassed all previous collections.
The previous highest total for one game was the FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Portsmouth which was a sell-out and we managed to raise £8,000.
At games previous to that with same weather conditions we raised £4,000 to £4,500."