SWINDON Town fans have claimed that one of their coaches was attacked by a few Millwall fans leaving Wembley Stadium on Saturday evening.

Others have questioned the lack of policing outside Wembley Park Tube station before the match where they said they faced a gauntlet of blue-shirted Millwall fans, some of whom shouted abuse at the Town supporters.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said there were no arrests at the ground but the British Transport Police (BTP) arrested a number of Swindon Town fans returning home to Wiltshire on the train on Saturday night.

However, in Swindon itself, police reported there were no arrests made in the town centre in relation to the football. Police said that fans had behaved well watching the game from pubs and bars, and there were no reports of trouble.

In north west London, Honda worker Duane Castleman, claimed that some Millwall fans targeted their coach as it was leaving Wembley.

“Millwall fans threw beer cans at our coach on the way out, opening coach doors and there was no police on site. Young kids on the coach were starting to get upset.”

Duane, 30, from Marlborough, said that Millwall fans were trying to get into the coach in front by the rear emergency exit window.

“Our driver was getting really worried about it, “ he said.

“As we drove past police, he shouted at them to get down to the car park to get it sorted. It was quite frightening.”

One Swindon fan, posting on the Adver website, said: “I had to witness a group of obviously drunk, foul-mouthed Millwall supporters, try to rip our coach door off, before kicking and scratching the coach whilst continuing to regale us with their brand of the English language.”

The fan, posting under the name of dosomethingmutley, wrote: “No police or stewards were present and the whole organisation outside our showpiece stadium was atrocious.”

A fan from Cirencester, who took his wife and three children to the game, said his day was spoiled by the abuse they received at Wembley Park before the game.

“Whose idea was it to let them congregate in the tunnel outside the Tube station before the match?” he asked, posting under the screen name of Aggie Neighbour.

“I had to squeeze through with my wife and three kids. My 15-year-old was snarled at, I had my red and white hat removed and thrown into the pack and then had some Millwall lowlife stick his face into mine.

“I am a grey-haired, overweight 50-year-old, not exactly your average football hooligan type. There was no police to be seen anywhere then. It spoilt my day before it had started.”

Dutch-based Swindon fan Ryan Barrett, said it was only a minority of Millwall fans that spoiled things.

“When we got to Wembley there were Millwall fans waiting under the bridge on our side of the stadium,” he said.

“Some were being intimidating but I didn’t see any actual violence. The police did a really good job. They were there in force.”

A Cambridge-based Swindon fan posted on the Adver website that some Millwall supporters taunted their Wiltshire rivals after the match. “Sadly, some Millwall fans took it upon themselves to ruin the day for everyone,” posted Angrydan.

“A bunch of them were waiting outside the Swindon end a minute after the final whistle, looking to pick fights.

“It’s sad really.”

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police, which is responsible for order in and around Wembley, said some drunken fans were gathered at the stadium and the tube station.

But he said there were no arrests at the ground described the event as ‘relatively quiet’.

“Every football match has its challenges but I am not aware of any significant problems with this match,” he said.

The British Transport Police, which had officers on the trains and at the stations, made an ‘unusual’ number of arrests of Swindon fans, although the exact number was not yet known yesterday.

The force always applies to magistrates to enforce football banning orders to anyone arrested going to or from a football match which prevents them for attending games for a set period.

Four men – thought to be Swindon supporters – were arrested following a fight on a train bound from London to Swindon on Saturday evening at about 8.15pm.

Two were charged with being drunk and disorderly and the others were each charged with a public order offence.

At Swindon station in the early hours of yesterday morning, a man, thought to be a Swindon fan, was also seen hanging out of a train window shouting abuse.

A 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly and later charged with the offence Inspector Neil Ketley, of the BTP, said: “We don’t normally have many issues with Swindon fans travelling and this is an unusual amount of arrests.”

Swindon police drafted in extra officers, including some from the county division, to provide a visible presence in the town centre as fans returned home.

Officers were posted to both the bus and coach stations, as well as pubs and areas where fans are known to congregate, including the bottom of town and Old Town.

PC James Neighbour, football intelligence officer for Swindon, who went to the match to help identify potential troublemakers, said: “On the whole, Swindon Town fans are good supporters of their club and behave in an appropriate manner.

“With any large number of people, you always get a percentage who act in an anti-social manner but the police have an idea who these people are and can control them.”