Gillingham won’t be taking the ‘coin throwing’ incident any further, says head coach Ady Pennock.

Midfielder Lee Martin implied that at least one coin had been thrown at him from the away end of the ground on Saturday.

Martin was facing his former team Millwall and he delayed taking a corner kick while he passed an object – thought to be a coin – to match referee Charles Breakspear.

But boss Pennock brushed off the incident. He said: “Hopefully, he picked it up, put it in his pocket and it got put in his children’s money box.

“We are all presuming it was a coin, it could have been anything.

“It’s unfortunate that these things happen but I don’t want to make any case of that. He hasn’t mentioned it and we don’t want to report anything.

“It’s up to the officials if they want to report it. The kids will be happy if he picked it up, a pound, or two, or the new pound coin would be nice. Hopefully, it was nothing.”

Later in the game a bottle was thrown in the direction of keeper Tomas Holy, when Millwall equalised.

One man, in his 60s, was arrested outside the ground after the match, charged with a public order offence.

There was a heavy police presence at the game, watched by more than 2,000 travelling fans, who were ushered back to Gillingham railway station with the help of a police helicopter and a large contingent of officers.

Trouble had marred the last match at Priestfield between the sides, resulting in eight arrests, including three inside the stadium.

Apart from the throwing of missiles, Saturday’s match passed by without too much incident.