[Lord Snooty]

Millwall v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Wednesday March 16th - 19:45 ko
at the Den

Huddersfield Town travel to South London to the Den to take on Millwall on Wednesday night for another night of Sky Sports Football. Yes, we're on the telly again!

Well what a season this is turning out to be. Here we are, third in the table. Six points above 7th place Luton. It could and probably should have been a bigger points haul. We threw two points away on Friday night at the Hawthorns after being totally dominant for most of the game. Bad penalty decision or not, we should've seen the game out.

But given this situation at the start of the season, when expectations were low, we would have been well pleased with a draw away at West Brom. What a strange season. Strange indeed and when I said to Amelia after about five games of the season that we can hand the two promotion places to Fulham and Bournemouth now, because nobody is going to catch them. Well here we are in March, those two are still the two to catch, but would anybody have believed back then that we would be their nearest challengers?

And that if we win this tricky looking game at the Den, we could overtake Bournemouth on Saturday when the Cherries come north to the John McAlpharm Stadium. They will have another three points in the bag by the time we play this on Wednesday. Surely. They're at home to free falling Reading.

Well let's not get too far ahead. Like I said, this one looks tricky. We're on a 17 league match unbeaten run. Millwall themselves are on a 7 game unbeaten run, since they lost at Craven Cottage last month. They won five on the trot before having two goalless draws in their most recent fixtures. They have risen up the league in that time and are now only three points outside of the Play Offs, which is an achievement for a squad that is so threadbare at the moment that they have a 16 year old boy on the bench.

That squad includes three ex Town players, sweet Scotty Malone, Murray Wallace and oh Benik Afobe. Our squad is almost at full strength, with just Ryan Schofield, Alex Vallejo and Rolando Aarons being out long term at the moment, meaning players such as Fraizer Campbell, Scott High and Aaron Rowe can't even make it into the travelling squad these days.

After this and then Saturday, we have another international break. Then it's the run in. We will have another seven games to the end of the season. Mick Buxton always used to use the Grand National course to describe the season. Well in the great man's words, we're past Canal Turn, approaching Valentines' Brook and then we're in the home straight.

Here's hoping our little Spanish jockey can avoid tripping up at this ditch, known as the Den. 

Tickets:

Adults - £27
Seniors (62+) - £18
Armed Forces - £18
18–21-year-olds - £18
Under-18s - £15
Under-16s - £13
Under-12s - £8
Under-6s - £5

Coach tickets are available at £30 per person, with coaches departing the St. Andrew’s Road car park at 1pm on match day.

Tickets for this fixture will be taken off sale at 3pm on Tuesday 15 March.

A brief history of Millwall FC: formed in 1885, they haven't actually played in Millwall since 1910. Formed as Millwall Rovers by the workers of a canning factory, mainly Scottish lads who had come down to work at the new plant opened in 1872 by the Aberdeen based company, JT Morton. They played at four different venues in Millwall before moving to New Cross in 1910 to play at The Den.

The old Den

They joined the Football League in 1920/21 with the newly formed regional Third Division and one of their biggest results in those early years was beating the thrice champions, Huddersfield Town, 3-1 in the 1926/27 FA Cup. And in 1937 they reached the FA Cup semi finals, losing 2-1 to Sunderland at Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road Stadium. Town legend Dave Mangnall leading the line in that famous cup run, the first 3rd division team to reach the semis. Here's some old footage of the cup run. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any footage anywhere on t' internet of the game at Leeds Road.

They were on the brink of the First Division, when the Second World War broke out. The Den took a pounding from the Luftwaffe and when the war was over, so was Millwall's chance of reaching for the sky. By the end of the 1950s they had plummeted down the league and when the third divisions went national, they were in the 4th division. They won promotion in 1964/65 though and have never been back to the 4th tier.

A steady climb upwards led to the eventual promotion to the top flight of English football in 1988/89 under the management of John Docherty and with the goals of Tony Cascarino and Teddy Sheringham. They stayed there for a couple of seasons, finishing 10th in the first one, before finishing bottom in the second.

In 1993 they moved ground, to Bermondsey and the New Den. After initial success at the new all seater stadium, a slump saw them relegated in 1996, but as a third division club, they reached Wembley for the first time, losing the 1999 Auto Windscreens Trophy Final 1-0 to Wigan, a team who would become their nemesis by beating them again in the following season's Play Offs. They went up as champions in the season after this though, with a club record 93 points.

In 2004 they reached the FA Cup Final, losing to Man Utd 3-0, but as United had already qualified for Europe, this meant that Millwall would play in the following season's UEFA Cup. They lost in the first round to Ferencváros.

Relegated again in 2006, they won promotion back again in 2009/10, via the Play Offs, beating Swindon in the final at Wembley. They did, of course, beat us 2-0 on aggregate on their way there.

In 2013, Millwall once again reached the FA Cup semi finals, losing again to their old nemesis Wigan by two goals to nil.

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 23 wins to Millwall's 20, with 7 draws.

We have already beaten the Lions this season, 1-0 at home in October with a headed goal from the skipper Jonathan Hogg. Yes really. Don't believe me? Well have a watch of this then.......

We never met in the league until the 1960s, but we were drawn against them three times in the FA Cup in the 1920s. On each occasion, we were in the first Division and huge favourites to win against the Lions who were in Division 3 South. The first meeting was in the quarter finals of the 1922 competition, when of course, we went on to win the trophy for the one and only time so far. We beat them 3-0 at Leeds Road with two goals from Clem Stephenson and one from Ernie Islip.

The next one was in the next season and we went down to the Den for the very first time, for a 2nd round match (4th round nowadays) and our plucky lower league opponents held the Cup holders to a goal less draw. So it was all back to Leeds Road on the following Wednesday and Town won 3-0 again. Two for Charlie Wilson this time and one for George Richardson. We lost to Bolton in the next round though and missed the chance of playing in the first Wembley final.

But then in 1927, they giant-killed us. The rounds had now aligned with how they are now and so it was a 3rd round tie when we went once more down to the Den to play our opponents from the 3rd Division. We had won the league three times in a row since our last wander down Cold Blow Lane and we were 4th in the table in our pursuit of a 4th consecutive title. It was a major shock then when they beat us 3-1 in front of a massive crowd of 35,962. George Brown scored the Town's goal.

The first league meetings came in 1966/67 when the Lions had been promoted to Division 2. We did the double over them. A Colin Dobson penalty and a Tony Leighton goal gave us a 2-0 win at Leeds Road. They had gone 59 home games unbeaten in their double promotion prior to this season and had continued that right into January when they eventually lost. So it was still a fortress when Town went there in March and gave them another defeat. Dobson scored again as well as Brian Clark, who got two in a 3-1 Town win.

They did the double over us a couple of seasons later. I remember my dad took me to the home game in November 68. I remember it for a brilliant goal from a Millwall player who's name I can't recall, but it was a smart piece of skill, back heeling the ball over his head out on the right wing right in front of where me and dad were sat in the stand, completely fooling our full back, then dribbling the ball all the way into the area before slotting it past Terry Poole in the Town goal. I thought then that they were a great side and they smashed us 5-1 later in the season down at theirs. The Big Match cameras were there and we got to see the goals on the Sunday afternoon in the new Yorkshire Television football show with Keith Macklin. A right novelty that was. Yes kids, football highlights on telly was only just beginning then.

Good side as they may have been, it was us who got promoted in the next season, but they still beat us 1-0 down there. They were still in Div 2 when we came back down again and beat us at their place once more. We did however win at home 1-0. Alan Gowling got that one, but we went down again and so didn't meet the Lions again until 80/81 in the 3rd Division.

The first game in that season was my one and only visit to Millwall. What a scary experience that was. They're absolutely mental. We lost 2-1 with Ian Robins scoring for Town. They celebrated as we were kept behind, by smashing every window in the two coaches we had taken down there. The drivers were sat on the bus and must've shat themselves. Our driver got some glass in his eye and so had to be driven to hospital. So we were sat on the coach, outside a hospital somewhere in London, with a load of smashed windows, waiting for him to get out of A&E. Not a great day. We eventually got back to the National bus depot in Heckmondwike well after midnight and I had to walk home to t' other side o' Batley.

So with this in mind, Millwall came to Leeds Road towards the back end of the season when we were pushing for promotion from the 3rd Div. We had just hammered Exeter 5-0 in mid week and were 3rd in the table, in those pre Play Off days when 3rd place meant automatic promotion. The Lions beat us 1-0, despite us having all the possession and shots at goal, they won it with a classic counter punch. At the final whistle, there was a pitch invasion as the Cowshed emptied and loads of big brave lads ran towards the Open End to have a go at the Millwall fans. One of my mates got tackled on the halfway line by a copper and arrested. I was still in the Cowshed by the way. I'm not a ruddy hooligan. Anyway, the Millwall lot weren't having it and had a go back, which sent most of our lot running back with their tails between their legs. Embarrassing really.

We did get promoted a couple of seasons later and on the way we beat Millwall 5-1 at Leeds Road. We made it on to Match Of The Day as well. The whole country was snowbound apart from our little pocket of springtime. And so desperate were the BBC to find a game that was still on, they dipped their toes down into the 3rd Division. And our lads didn't disappoint, pulling off a magnificent 5-1 win with goals from Mark Lillis, Colin Russell 2, Keith Hanvey and Phil Wilson. Here, have a watch.

Millwall followed us up into Division Two a couple of seasons later and the first game of the 85/86 season saw them coming north to play us in another high scoring match. We won again, 4-3 this time with Dale Tempest getting a hat trick with Simon Webster getting the other.

After we'd been relegated again in 1988, we drew the Lions once more in the FA Cup with us as the underdogs this time. And so it showed as the walloped us 4-0 at Leeds Road in 1992. They had just been relegated after their short spell in Division One and we were in the 3rd.

We had one season together in the 90s, in 95/96 and they got beat 3-0 on their first ever visit to the McAlpine Stadium. A Ronnie Jepson pen, Rob Edwards and Andy Booth providing the goals.

We had 4 seasons together in League One in the noughties, which ended when Danny Scofield inspired them to beat us in the Play Offs. We don't need to mention that any further.

Every meeting since has been in the Championship with last season's 3-0 victory at the Den being the highlight. Josh Koroma, Pipa and Lewis O'Brien scored that day.

So what's going on down Cold Blow Lane? Managed nowadays by Gary Rowett, the Burton Albion legend. He started out with Cambridge Utd during their glory years, in a team that reached the 2nd division (Championship) Play Offs that were beaten by Leicester City, and also made it as far as the quarter finals of the League Cup. That was under the notorious managership of John Beck.

This earned him a move to the Premier League as a promising 20 year old defender, but unfortunately only made 4 appearances and was loaned out to Blackpool. He was then transferred to Derby, spent three seasons there then went to Birmingham City. He helped the Brummies reach the Play Offs and then left for Leicester. He played for them in the Premier League, as well as Charlton Athletic where a persistent knee injury finished his career off.

Well not totally. He made a come back in the Conference with Burton Albion in 2005. Eventually, he became assistant manager there to Paul Peschisolido. By now the Brewers had made it into the Football League and Rowett was made permanent manager in 2012 and he led them twice to the League Two Play Offs, being beaten by Bradford City and then Fleetwood Town. His stock was rising though and he was then poached by one of his former clubs, Championship strugglers Birmingham City.

He took the Bluenoses from a relegation placing up to tenth in that first season and in the next, they were up to 7th when the club was taken over by new owners and he was unceremoniously dumped in favour of Gianfranco Zola, who took them back into the relegation battle.

Rowett wasn't out of work for long though as he went to manage another of the clubs he played for, Derby County. He was only there for one season, took them as high as second but eventually just qualified for the Play Offs in 6th. They were beaten in the semis by Fulham and he left them to go to recently relegated Stoke, making Tom Ince one of his first signings from us. He flopped though in this one and they were mostly involved in a relegation battle and he was relieved of his duties in January, spending the rest of the season as a tv pundit.

In October 2019, he became manager of Millwall, leading them to a comfortable mid table position when they started out the season as many pundits' favourites for the drop.  And they've been comfortably mid table ever since.

Saturday's line up at home to Middlesbrough:

33 Bartosz Białkowskii - 34 year old Polish keeper, ex Ipswich.
26 Daniel Ballard - Young centre back on loan from Arsenal.
5 Jake Cooper - Ex Reading centre back
3 Murray Wallace - Ex Falkirk and Scunny centre back, oh and us as well.
2 Danny McNamara - 23 year old Irish full back.
24 Billy Mitchell - Played by Perry Fenwick
17 George Saville - Midfielder, signed from Boro in the summer.
11 Scott Malone - Ex Town full back who has scored more against us than for us.
7 Jed Wallace - Ex Pompey and Wolves winger.
20 Mason Bennett - Involved in the infamous Richard Keogh car crash.
23 Benik Afobe - Now 29 years old, can't settle anywhere.

Subs:
1 George Long - Ex Sheff Utd and Hull keeper.
15 Alex Pearce - Ex Reading and Derby centre back.
21 Connor Mahoney - Striker from Blackburn.
28 George Evans - Another ex Reading and Derby centre back.
32 Tyler Burey - Young midfielder, came from AFC Wimbledon.
35 Hayden Muller - Young midfielder, recently recalled from loan at St Johnstone.
49 Zak Lovelace - 16 year old striker, made his debut in December, aged 15.

The boy Lovelace

Club connections:

Danny Schofield: returned to Huddersfield Town in February 2020 as an Academy coach for the under 19s, replacing Dean Whitehead who had gone to Shrewsbury. This came 22 years after he first joined the club from amateur side Brodsworth Miners Welfare in Doncaster. Signed by Peter Jackson, he had just made his debut in the final match of 1998/99 when Jacko was unceremoniously dumped by madman club owner Barry Rubery to be replaced by the bum faced Baggies boss Steve Bruce.

Bruce came in with his own ideas and spent Barry's fortune on some quality players, gave us half a cracking season before it went tits up and just missed out on the Play Offs. Danny was limited therefore to only 4 sub appearances that season. The season after, Bruce got sacked halfway through and we got relegated. Danny still couldn't break through and only made one sub app.

Down in the 3rd division with Lou Macari in charge, Danny started to come through. He scored his first two goals in Terriers colours in a home match against Bury and contributed 8 goals in the campaign that saw us reach the Play Offs, where we were beaten by Brentford in the semis. He contributed 4 goals in the LDV Vans Trophy run, one of them a fantastic curler from the edge of the area in the Northern Final home leg against Blackpool that put us ahead in the tie, only for us to be denied a Wembley trip when the tangerine twats won it in extra time on the Golden Goal rule.

He didn't play much in the next season, scoring twice, as a strong looking forward line up of Andy Booth, Martin Smith and Jon Stead failed to keep us from going down to the Football League's basement division. But he did play a massive role in the next season, with Jacko back in charge, as we bounced straight back up. His first goal of the season came in dramatic fashion, running the length of the field to score away at Southend in the last minute as our brave lads broke away from their corner to grab a 2-1 victory. It was one of those season turning moments and the next match saw the famous Tony Carss goal at home to Torquay and suddenly we had gone from mid table obscurity to a place in the top 6.

He scored another late goal in another great match away at York City when Jacko brought on central defender David Mirfin on as an emergency striker. He set up Danny for the first before bagging one himself. Another super sub that came on to turn a match, ended up with daft Danny getting sent off. It was John McAliskey who came on and won a match with two late goals at home to Scunthorpe. So delighted was young Dan that he jumped into the crowd to celebrate, got yellow carded, his second of the match and had to do the walk of shame while we all celebrated wildly. Then of course came his two magnificently taken penalties in the Play Offs. One against Lincoln to bring the tie level after Boothy was brought down. And then of course, his well placed pen at the Millennium Stadium in the shoot out against Mansfield.

He had four more seasons with us and mid table mediocrity in League One before, in 2008 Stan Ternent took the manager's job and made Danny one of the first players to get shut of. He went on a free transfer to Yeovil. He had a season there before transferring to Millwall in 2009. At the New Den he had a couple of seasons, helping them reach the League One Play offs in 2010. Who did they play? Huddersfield Town. Danny didn't play at ours in the first leg, but he played the full 90 down at theirs when they beat us 2-0. They went to Wembley for the final and Danny played another full 90 as a goal from Paul Robinson saw them promoted with a 1-0 win against Swindon.

In a poll in 2019, Danny was voted, by the fans into Millwall's Team of the Decade on the left wing. After two years in London, he moved back north. He signed for Rotherham, had loan spells at Accrington and Stockport, before winding up his playing career with Bradford Park Avenue and FC Halifax Town.

He went into coaching with Park Avenue, then Leeds (at the same time as Carlos Corberan), Barnsley and Birmingham, before joining us from Middlesbrough in Feb 2020. He took over as caretaker manager for one match when Danny Cowley was relieved of his duties in July 2020, a match against Millwall, which we lost 4-1 and he played a load of players that he had been coaching in the Academy, most of whom haven't made the first team since, apart from that FA Cup match against Plymouth.

Jack Cock: played for Town either side of the First World War and he and Town skipper Fred Bullock turned out at Griffin Park as guests in the wartime league for Brentford and they became champions of the London Football Combination in the season after the war. Cock served in the army, becoming a Sergeant-Major and earnt the Military Medal for "Bravery in the Field" and was Mentioned in Despatches for "gallantry". He was reported as 'missing, presumed dead' at one point during the war. After this, they both returned north to resume their careers at Huddersfield Town. The Town however were in dire financial straits at this time and one of the first things they did about this was to sell Cock to Chelsea for a record fee of £2,500. This was shortly after he had won his first international cap for England.

He scored 9 goals in 18 games for Town, a career that lasted 6 years with little opportunity to play for us. His first goal was against Grimsby Town in December 1914 and his last came at Birmingham City in September 1919 shortly before his transfer. It was possibly his 4 goals in a 5-0 victory at home to Bury three weeks earlier that could've made Chelsea's mind up to sign him.

Jack was born in 1893 in Hayle, Cornwall, but the family moved to London when he was a child and settled in Fulham. His first job was as a caddie at Burnham Beeches Golf Club, from which he was sacked for playing football with a golf ball on one of the greens. Golf clubs were obviously full of snobs even back then (apologies if you are a golf club snob). So he got a job in a foundry and started playing football for West Kensington Utd. Soon after he was offered a place at Brentford, who were in the Southern League then, from where he joined Huddersfield Town in 1914. War broke out and Jack joined the famous "Footballer's Battalion", as mentioned earlier earning himself the Military Medal for Bravery.

After the war, back in Yorkshire playing for Town, he earned an England cap and then got his second England cap after his transfer to Chelsea. And despite scoring in both matches, they were his only two international caps. In his first season at Chelsea, he scored 24 goals and helped them to 3rd in the First Division, their highest finish at the time and also reached the FA Cup semi finals.

That summer though, he began his other career as a film star, playing himself in a silent movie called The Winning Goal. This led him to another alternative career. He had a fine tenor voice and as such became a star in the music halls. Such was his success at this that he considered packing in football to take this up full time, but stayed at Stamford Bridge, totalling 47 goals in 99 matches before transferring back up north, signing for Everton in 1925.

Up in Liverpool he continued to work the halls, playing 69 times for the Toffees, scoring 29 goals. Then he had a couple of seasons at Plymouth scoring 72 goals in 90 matches, before going back to London in 1927 and becoming a Millwall legend. He scored twice on his debut for the Lions in a 9-1 win against Coventry City.

He finished as top scorer in his three seasons at the Den, totalling 77 goals and helping them win promotion to the 2nd division. And all through this time he continued to entertain the masses in the Music Halls and even had a signature song, My Blue Heaven, which reports of the time say the audience always joined in lustily with the chorus.

Haven't got him singing it, but here's a recent version of the song, sung by James Taylor.

He left Millwall in 1931, winding down his football career at Folkestone, but before his retirement he had starred in another football themed film, The Greater Game, in 1930. Filmed mainly at Stamford Bridge, it has the first credited role for Rex Harrison.

He continued with the singing career and landed a record deal with Parlaphone Records and toured the country. Later he would become manager back at Millwall, leading them to the Wartime Cup Final in 1945. He spent 4 years as manager there, before becoming a pub landlord at the White Hart in New Cross.

He died in Kensington in 1966, aged 72. Surely one of the most multi talented people to have played for Huddersfield Town.

Dave Mangnall: signed for Town from Leeds Utd in December 1929 as a replacement for George Brown, who had departed for Aston Villa in the summer. It was a case of replacing Huddersfield Town's leading goal scorer with a man who would go on to have the Town's greatest goals to matches ratio, scoring 73 goals in 90 matches. He was another who had come from working darn t' pit. As the saying used to go, Huddersfield Town just went and shouted down the nearest pit shaft when they needed a new striker. Dave had gone darn t' pit in t' first place because he was rejected after a trial at Town and went to play as an amateur for Doncaster Rovers.

He was given another chance by Leeds Utd and scored ten goals for their reserves in one match, a 13-0 win against Stockport County reserves. This led to him being picked for their first XI and his 6 goals in 9 matches for the BellEnders impressed Clem Stephenson enough to persuade the directors of Huddersfield Town to fork out the princely sum of £3,000 for him.

He made his Town debut in a 0-2 defeat down at the Arsenal, but scored his first Town goals, two of them, in a 3-2 win at West Ham on Christmas Day 1929 and scored again on Boxing Day as West Ham came up north and were beaten 3-0 with Bob Kelly and Harry Raw getting the others. He scored 8 goals in 14 matches that season, but didn't get selected for the FA Cup Final when we lost 0-1 to the Arsenal, Harry Davies getting the nod ahead of him.

In the following season he scored 9 goals in 12 games as Town finished 5th in the first division. But the next season, 1931/32, Mangnall set his name in stone in the Huddersfield Town record books. We finished 4th in the league, but that was mainly down to Dave's 42 goals in 39 matches (33 in the league), which is still a club record, only Jordan Rhodes has come anywhere near since. He scored 5 goals in a 6-0 win over Derby County, which young Jordan did manage to match against Wycombe Wanderers, but they are two of only three Town players to have done so, with Alf Lythgoe being the other. Dave did get another record that nobody has come anywhere near matching though and that is the club record for scoring in consecutive matches. He scored in 11 straight matches (7 league, 4 FA Cup, 19 goals). He did score in 9 straight league matches, but in between those was another famous match in which Town failed to score. That was the FA Cup quarter final match at Leeds Road against the Arsenal, which was attended by 67,037 people, another club record that will definitely never be beaten. Arsenal won 1-0.

Town finished 6th next season, but without the Mangnall boy who only played three times due to a serious injury. He was back in 33/34, playing in 16 games and scoring 10 goals as Town finished as runners up to Arsenal, who were completing their hat trick of titles, but without Herbert Chapman who had died earlier in the year.

His last game for Town was in a 0-3 defeat at Stoke in January 1934 and his last goal for Town was in the previous game, a 1-1 draw against Leeds Utd at Bellend Road. Injury ruled him out for the rest of the season and in the summer he was sold to Birmingham City, where he scored 14 goals in one season, before going down to London to play for West Ham. He scored 28 times in his one season at Upton Park before leaving to become a legend at their neighbours Millwall. During the 36/37 season his goals led the Lions to the FA Cup semi finals, the first 3rd division team to reach that stage. On the way they beat Aldershot, Gateshead, Fulham, Chelsea, Derby and then in the quarter finals they beat Manchester City, who were, as now, the star studded team of the day. Mangnall scored the first goal in the match at the Den, in which Millwall won 2-0 to earn a semi spot, to be played against Sunderland at one of Dave's old stamping grounds, the wonderful Leeds Road stadium in Huddersfield. There must have been a fair few Town supporters cheering him on in another big crowd of 62,813 as he opened the scoring in the semi final, but Sunderland came back to win 2-1 and go on to win the cup against Preston at Wembley.

Dave was famous now and as such went and asked for a pay rise from the Millwall management. This was long before players had any power at all or agents and so when this was rejected, he left the club to run a grocers shop in Sutton Coldfield. As the second world war was just kicking off, he returned to London and signed for QPR. Scored 3 times in three games for Rangers, which were crossed off as the fledgling season was abandoned. He stayed in London for the Blitz, playing for the QPR team in the Wartime League and becoming manager in 1944.

He must've been some kind of celebrity because he became friends with the American singer/comedian/film star Sophie Tucker, who became Godmother to his son. He stayed at Loftus Road as boss after the war and remained in the post until 1952, in which time he won them the Division Three South title and their first ever promotion. It was his only managers job as he left football to go live in Cornwall as landlord of the Navy Inn in Penzance. It was here that he died in 1962, aged 57.

Millwall in popular culture: Quite depressingly, the only stuff about Millwall in popular culture is about football hooliganism. Millwall itself is now a completely different looking place to the one in which those Scottish lads set up the football team back in the arse end of the 19th century.

Millwall Dock

The only sports club in the area nowadays is the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre.

'ow to get theere an' wheere to sup: The post code for sat nav is SE16 3LN. It's street parking only, by the look of it. The best street to park in is the street where you live. Or at the Town ground and get the coach down.


Or by train. Here's what it says on the Football Ground Guide:-

It is probably best to go by rail, as South Bermondsey Railway Station is only a few minutes walk from the ground. There is a direct walkway specifically built for away fans which takes you directly to the away end and back to the station afterwards. This has made the Police’s job of keeping rival supporters apart so much more manageable. As you exit the station turn right for the visiting supporters walkway. If your team brings a sizeable following, then an ‘away fan’ football special may be laid on from London Bridge. In these instances, the Police are well drilled in getting away fans into the ground from the special train and safely away afterwards. Although don’t be surprised if you are held in the stadium for sometime after the final whistle, before being allowed back up the walkway to the station. You may also then be held for a while at the station itself, so please bear this in mind when booking the time of your return journey home.

You can also reach near the ground via New Cross or New Cross Gate Stations, however they are around a twenty minute walk away from the Den and is not really recommended for away fans to use.

As for pubs. Every pub in the area is family friendly and all supporters are welcome. And you are encouraged to wear your club colours.

Recent form - last 6 matches:

WBA 2-2 Town
Forest 2-1 Town (FA Cup)
Town 3-0 Peterborough
Birmingham 0-2 Town
Town 2-1 Cardiff
Fulham 1-2 Town

Millwall 0-0 Boro
Blackburn 0-0 Millwall
Reading 0-1 Millwall
Millwall 1-0 Sheff Utd
Derby 1-2 Millwall
Millwall 2-0 QPR

Town are 3rd in the Championship table with 63 points. Millwall are 11th with 54.

Leading scorers:

Terriers:
Danny Ward (13)
Duane Holmes (6)
Danel Sinani (6)
Josh Koroma (5)
Tom Lees (5)

Lions:
Tom Bradshaw (7)
Benik Afobe (7)
Jed Wallace (6)
Murray Wallace (5)


March the 16th down the ages: How did we get on in previous matches played on this date?

1912: Nottingham Forest (a) Div 2, lost 0-3
1918: Leeds City (h) Wartime League, WON 4-3 (T. Hall 3, Frank Mann)
1929: Newcastle United (h) Div 1, WON 2-1 (George Brown, Johnny Dent)
1931: Sunderland (h) Div 1, WON 2-0 (Bob Kelly, Gerry Kelly)
1935: Portsmouth (h) Div 1, WON 2-0 (Alf Lythgoe 2)
1938: Preston North End (h) Div 1, lost 1-3 (Willie MacFadyen)
1946: Barnsley (a) Football League North, lost 0-1
1955: Newcastle United (a) FA Cup, lost 0-2
1957: Sheffield United (a) Div 2, lost 0-2
1963: Luton Town (a) Div 2, lost 2-3 (Chris Balderstone, Mike O'Grady)
1968: Derby County (h) Div 2, WON 3-1 (Joe Harper, Paul Aimson, Colin Dobson)
1974: Tranmere Rovers (h) Div 3, drew 0-0
1991: Chester City (h) Div 3, drew 1-1 (Kieran O'Regan)
1996: Stoke City (a) Division One (2nd tier), drew 1-1 (Rob Edwards)
2002: Cambridge United (a) Division Two (3rd tier), WON 1-0 (Leon Knight)
2004: Rochdale (h) Division Three (4th tier) drew 1-1 (Anthony Lloyd)
2013: Leeds United (a) Championship, WON 2-1 (Neil Danns, James Vaughan)
2019: West Ham United (a) Premier League, lost 3-4 (Juninho Bacuna, Karlan Grant 2)




Quiz:

1. Which current Championship manager scored for Millwall against Town in the 2010 Play Offs?
   
2. Which Town player scored the winner against Millwall on his debut in 2014?
   
3. Scott Malone has scored against Town for Millwall, Fulham and which other team?
   
4. Who did Town sign Murray Wallace from?
   
5. Who did Millwall sign Murray Wallace from?
   
6. Who scored a hat trick for Town against Millwall in 1985?
   
7. Where did Millwall play Sunderland in the 1937 FA Cup semi final?
   
8. Which ex Town player scored for Millwall in that match?
   
9. Benik Afobe is on loan at Millwall from which other Championship club?
   
10. Neil Harris is Millwall's all time leading scorer, who's 2nd in the list?
    

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[jjamez]

1 I imagine it can only be Steve morison

2 nahki wells, I was on a train watching some dodgy stream of that... With Wednesday and sheff u fans

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I could give a few of the others a good go but I won't be greedy

Although 4 is the same team as Scott arfield ain't it, and the 5 is a team that used to be a bit of a bogey side when they had billy sharp and Andy Keogh, but now are struggling to keep their place in the football league?

[Lord Snooty]

Correct, jjamez.

[theo_luddite]

9).  is Smoke on Stench. Some of the best £10m they've ever paid for a bloke that has hardly ever played for them

Loads of Captain Kirk went into that thread Snoots.

[Lord Snooty]

Thanks, theo. Most of it was done in lockdown when I prepared the thread for the last game of that season and I've just tweaked it a bit.

[ritchiebaby]

4 and 5 are Falkirk and Sc**thorpe United (taking no chances there!)

[WakeyTerrier]

Scott Malone, best known at his time at Town for the following

City away in the PL survival season, bursting through on goal but not scoring
Chelsea away the following midweek for gaining a free kick in the last minute

Other than that little or nothing

[Lord Snooty]

We have a slight doubt about Eiting. He has a cut on his foot. Josh Koroma has passed fit to return.

[theo_luddite]

and I thought our lot put our SC's on sale early.

https://www.millwallfc.co.uk/news/2022/m...-sale-now/

Roll-up, roll up, grab a bargain while they are going cheap.

[Lord Snooty]

You can pay on the day at this match, but it'll cost you an extra three quid.

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George Evans ruled out for the Lions with a calf injury.