Meet Millwall's youngest fan - named Blu after he was born in the club training ground car park and delivered by the Lions' cook.

Nikki Lawrence, 29, gave birth early on March 6 in the back of her Ford Focus just as Millwall players started pulling up in their cars and making their way inside.

Ms Lawrence had already gone into the early stages of labour when she drove to see her mum who works as a cook at Millwall's Marvels Lane complex in Grove Park.

She planned to  drop off daughter Kaycie, seven, before making her way to Darent Valley Hospital. But things didn't work out that way.

Lorrayne Collins, 52, of Plymstock Road, Bexleyheath, explained: "We put her in the front but she said 'mum, I'm not going to make it'.

"Me and her partner Tom were outside and we had to go through what the 999 people were telling us over the phone.

"We had to lay Nikki down on the back seat of the car. I had to strip her but she didn't want to because she knew she was in the Millwall car park and the players were all coming in. They were running in the building and trying not to look."

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She said: "The paramedic came as I was standing there holding a baby's head and I was screaming 'he's here, he's here.'"

Incredibly, after delivering the baby, Ms Collins went straight back to work. She said: "I told them 'it's a boy' and the players clapped. I just carried on cooking omelettes after that. I was an amazing experience."

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Ms Lawrence, a former receptionist for the Lions said: "All of us somehow were in the back of this Ford Focus. It was a tight squeeze.

"I kept saying to my mum, I can't have him here in the car park. But it happened so quickly, we didn't really have time to be that nervous."

And the 29-year-old, of The Pantiles, Bexleyheath, added: "He's known as baby Blu now. Being where it was, it seems to make sense.

"My whole family going back are all avid Millwall fans so it's really nice for them.

"All the players can't wait for me to go there and show them their future goalie."