Mick

I definitely didn't think I would ever have to do and mention the words I'm going to mention shortly.

And to be fair, we were thinking about possibly doing a show last night and thought, no, to be fair, none of us could really get our heads around it.

I mean, I'm denied about it all day today, but looking across Twitter and

and obviously people going to the club to sign the book of condolence, um, players, uh, ex players just thought that this could be a good way for, um, middle fans with their stories to be able to share it.

Um, and just put it out.

We are going to, um, stick this out as a podcast.

Um,

And obviously make it available there.

We can't really make it available on YouTube because there's just no real way of doing that properly, to be fair.

But yesterday we got the sad news.

Unfortunately, our chairman, John Berylson, sadly lost his life in a tragic accident.

And that news came out from the club and then obviously was picked up by various media outlets.

What I'd like to do from the start is say tonight's show isn't about, you know, any questions about what happens next or, you know, what's going to happen to the club and all of that, or because that's for a later show right now.

this is just about remembering John, sharing some stories, what people have, um, and just, you know, put in there that, you know, anyone who knows John can listen, any Millwall fan can listen to this and listen to what he meant to us as individuals.

I'll have some stories.

I, you know, I wasn't best mates with John in any, any shape or form, and I'm never going to pretend I was, but yes, I've had, you know, um,

phone calls and conversations and meetings with him over my time.

And I just think that he was a genuine, nice bloke who, as far as he was concerned, he was just one of us, you know, someone of his stature walking around the stadium freely on match day, shaking hands, having selfies.

And he never really,

thought that he had any fame.