Hello and welcome to the game podcast from the Times I'm Gabriel Marcotti I thank you for joining us it's a holiday here in in London where we where we tape this podcast so I'm extremely grateful to the people who came in to join me, namely the people whose families

don't like them which is why they're here with us today. That would be

Julian Lawrence and the former Crystal Palace, Aipstitchtown and Lester City striker James

Skokroft, who's just regaled me with an anecdote about how he escaped a horde of rabid Millwall fans.

So Scowy's unusual in that he's one of those professional footballers who actually

enjoyed watching football and enjoyed paying to go to football matches.

In other words, he's kind of like a normal human being.

When he was playing for Palace, what does he do on his day off?

He says, oh, I know, I'll go watch Millwall because I enjoy watching football is that is

that right so far? No it's not the full story I went to watch Millwall Lester my

former team while you were playing for Crystal Palace. I was out injured in Crystal Palace.

Were away, so I had treatment on Saturday morning, but this is a story.

Went to watch Millwall, I knew quite a few of the Leicester background staff so I went to watch Mill or Leicester which was in

Division 1 at the time top of the table clash big game which Leicester won 1 nil they got

promotion that season.

So get the interesting part? to the interesting part came at halftime

when I was in the toilet where a Millwall fan came up to me.

Wait, wait, wait, you were in the stands.

You don't even go to that special box for players or other other the courtesy box you're in like

you're in like with the sloughs no I was in the main stand and at half time a

middle fan come up to me and just politely asked what I was doing there.

Could you use any foul language?

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