Millwall are an easy target for the press. No one likes them, therefore no one will care if we write something that's completely untrue as no one will believe their side of the story. That's the theory, anyway.
Take The Times. Two weeks ago, their reporter spent the opening four paragraphs of his article condemning Millwall as a club and there supporters as racist mindless thugs before even mentioning that a game was played. The whole racism claim revolved around one player - Burnley's sole black player Mo Camara.
For 80 minutes of the Cup Clash, Camara had been routinely booed by the Millwall support. The Times, News of the World and several other papers all said it was because he was black, chosing to ignore the fact that during a free-for-all bust up, resulting from Burnley's Ian Moore's elbow on Millwall's Matt Lawrence, Camara ran the full length of the pitch to deck Lions' midfielder, Tim Cahill, resulting in a yellow card for the defender.
Such an action led to the boos whenever Camara touched the ball, as it would have done had it been David May.
The press also chose to ignore the fact tha both Moore and Robbie Blake received just as much abuse as Camara, if not more, for their indiscretions during the opening exchanges of the game. The same would happen all over the country, and quite right too, as it is part and parcel of the game.
However, this happened at Millwall. Millwall sell newspapers. Quick headline, an off the cuff quip, and bang, you've got a story. However, the story behind the report has led to the current situation, where a Millwall fan can't fart in the direction of an opposition player without being accused to being a racist thug.
Following The Times report, both the club and the Millwall Supporters Committee wrote to News International to express their displeasure at the inaccuracies in the report and the downright lies being peddled. The Times replied, but their reply did not satisfy chairman Theo Paphitis, who, after consulting his lawyers, is now considering legal action against the publication.
Of course, Millwall fans are well aware of this. They know what's happening at the club. Those outside are not.
And so we come to yesterday's game and sure enough, everytime Mo Camara touched the ball he got booed. Not because of the colour of his skin, but because of his involvement in the ongoing saga against The Times. There were no monkey chants, no racial abuse, just boos to demonstrate what Millwall fans thought of the accusations levied against them.
But Millwall fans can't boo black players. "It is scandalous," raged Stan Ternant. "The people involved should be locked up." If there was monkey chanting, I'd agree with Ternant - and so would the club. No one has done more to rid the racists of the game than Millwall Football Club, and they are regularly praised by the Kick It Out campaign for their efforts. But when it came to racist chanting and monkey noises, the only fans guilty of that yesterday were the Burnley fans who abused the likes of Paul Ifill, Marvin Elliot and Mark McCammon and who had several of their fans ejected for doing so.
Don't get me wrong. We are not squeeky clean. But we are not all members of the Klu Klux Klan either.