When knife-wielding jihadis shouted 'Allah!' in pub, one Brit cursed back — then let his fists fly

Roy Larner's mother describes her 47-year-old son as "fearless."

"He’ll give as good as he gets," Phyllis Larner told The Sun. “He’s quite nippy and lippy and wouldn’t back down from a fight. He wouldn’t care who it was or if they had a knife or gun.”

Such was the case it seems when Larner was sitting in a pub on the night of the London Bridge terror attacks and the trio of knife-wielding jihadis busted in and shouted “Islam, Islam!” and “This is for Allah!"

Roy Larner- What a man... Shame there weren't a few more Millwall about at time 👊🏻https://t.co/PW528CUu01 pic.twitter.com/sFbTHXmr7w

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“There was loads of noise," he told The Sun. "No one knew what was happening. Then the bouncers tried to shut the door. The terrorists were pushing against the doors to get in. Everyone inside was running around in panic. A few tried to get out the back and others hid under tables or behind counters."

Then the trio "smashed open the door where I was standing," he told the paper. "The three of them stood together.”

Larner — one of many British soccer fans who loves his Millwall team with a crazy passion — decided the terrorists were out of line.

Admitting to The Sun that he'd consumed "four or five pints — nothing major," the Londoner recounted "like an idiot I shouted back at them. I thought, ‘I need to take the p*** out of these b******s.'"

So he “took a few steps toward them and said, ‘F*** you, I’m Millwall!'" Larner told the paper.

As it happens, Millwall fans have a famous chant — anchored by the phrase, "No one likes us/we don't care!"

The trio of terrorists then started attacking Larner.

“All three were on me," Larner told The Sun, describing his solo battle with the terrorists. "I couldn’t hold them back. Two got past me and I was one-on-one. He kept slashing and hacking away at me. ... I was swinging. I got stabbed and sliced eight times."

He told the paper he suffered wounds to his head, chest and both hands: "There was blood everywhere."

Again he told the paper the jihadis “were saying, ‘Islam, Islam!’ I said again, ‘F*** you, I’m Millwall!’"

After the terrorists ran out of the aptly named Black & Blue restaurant and bar, The Sun said Larner followed them.

“I went outside and saw them head towards The Wheatsheaf pub," he told the paper. "Then from nowhere I heard gunshots and saw all three go down."

It was only after Larner was sitting in a police car that he realized how badly he'd been wounded, The Sun reported, adding that Larner was taken to a hospital in critical condition. After surgeries, the paper said he was taken off the critical list Sunday.

“I’m a bit better," he told The Sun from the hospital. "They reckon that I might be in here a week.”

The Sun noted that Larner is now being hailed as the Lion of London Bridge — a reference to the mascot of the Millwall soccer team — for his heroic actions that gave others in the pub time to escape.

"I just did what I had to do," he told the paper.

Piers Morgan spoke about Larner's exploits on "Good Morning Britain":

A petition also has been launched to honor Larner with a George Cross, Britain’s highest gallantry award for civilians, The Sun reported.

Here's a phone interview with Larner from "Good Morning Britain":