When asked why he did it, he reportedly shrugged and said, "You Englanders, you line up like redcoats. You have no sin. No mischief. You fight like robots. I fight like hunger."

And somewhere, in a small bar in Malaga—or Lisbon, or Tangier—an old man with a scarred knuckle and a fading Millwall tattoo is sipping a cheap beer, listening to the radio, and hoping that West Ham are losing.

The most direct way the keyword “Spanish Joe Millwall Hooligan” connects to a known cultural product is through the 1990 British TV drama Arrivederci Millwall .