Huge game, if only because Brentford are playing Swansea, Muff playing Reading and Norwich have a tricky game against Boro.
Not tricky anymore for Norwich. Boro lost their two best players yesterday. The amount of luck that Norwich have had this season is insane.
I've heard a few people say this, what luck have they had? I know some of their fans were surprised to be where they are but I haven't really watched any of their games.
Red cards in their favour that weren’t red cards. Penalties that weren’t penalties. Last minute deflected goals that were heading wide before the deflection. Goals ruled out in their favour for offside decisions that weren’t offside. Goals given even though they were offside. Penalties calls not given for the opposition, especially at Carrow Road, when they were blatant. In nearly every game this season one or more of the above has happened. Literally the luckiest team this season. Edit: forgot to add that the team they would play next would be without their key player(s) either because of suspension or injury. Honestly it’s been a joke how lucky they have been.
Unfortunately the state of the pitch is going to help them a lot more than it helps up. It ain't gonna be pretty. I'd take any kind of win out of this one.
If we can handle cold Friday on Stoke, surely we can handle a bumpy pitch in London. Remember Tranmere? Looked like a Car Park.
If the pitch is crap, then we likely need to go direct and press high. Might be a game for older blokes. Worry a bit for pacy, slender types like Sarr and Pedro. It's easy to get clattered into if you're trying to settle a bouncing ball. Probably should have Sema and Zinckernagel see a lot of minutes.
That was my first and only experience of Millwall. Entering and especially exiting the stadium feels like you’re accessing a high security prison. Clearly designed with their fans in mind.
I can tell you it was much worse when the ground was first built, because they didn’t have the direct walkway from the station to the away end. Getting back to the trains was an interesting experience. (Of course the old Den was on another level still.)
Neither of them are actually slender, though - both are six foot plus, and Sarr has been increasingly using his physicality, whilst one of the things that has impressed most about Pedro is his unexpected comfort with backing into players, holding them off and just generally getting stuck in Championship-fashion. I'm not saying they're the same as a Millwall orc, but I don't think we would have to be too concerned about either of them should they feature.
You know - scoring goals, playing good football, keeping most of their best players, having solid finances. That kind of luck.
I once sat in the Directors Box at the Old Den - they were racially abusing paul furlong and bruce dyer and that was in the “posh” seats
Millwall have signed Bernie Clifton from Birmingham. Blues distinctly undergruntled and threatening to go on a wrecking spree with messrs Coton,Harford and Dillon,as and when it is allowed of course.
Went there one year-night game-think Vialli was manager so 20 years ago !-in the boxes with some Millwall we knew. At half time as we were enjoying our food/drink we could hear a lot of running around/commotion in the corridor-then the door opened and a few police rushed in with the steward looking on, they looked quickly at us then around and left. Steward came back in at start of second half to say the CCTV had spotted an escaped prisoner poking his head out from behind one of the "patio" doors during the first half but only when reviewing the footage had they realised who he was but not sure which precise box he was in.
Escaping from prison to go to a football match sounds like something Norman Stanley Fletcher would do.
Went to the old den 72ish. They were pushing for promotion and we were down at the bottom. I remember as a kid cheering our second goal and a aged ‘docker’ type sat in front of me telling to me sit down and shut the f*** up or else. Not a pleasant place to go!
I remember going one Boxing Day about 89/90, took my wife’s car as didn’t want any damage done to mine!, my sons decided to stay at home and play with their recently acquired new toys, they didn’t believe me when I got back and said we had won 4-0. If I remember Jason Drysdale and Solomon (I think) amongst the goals! and no, no damage was done to my wife’s car!
Clearly the trip has got tamer over the years, as my only trip at Millwall was the one during our last promotion season, four and half years after miked2006 went there, and I didn't feel threatened at all. On a side note, that 6-1 win reminds me of the fantastic results we had in 2010-11 - in addition to that, we won at Norwich and QPR convincingly and thumped Cardiff, and there was a thriller against Swansea where we almost got a point from 3-0 down. We had a good team then with lots of goals in it, sometimes wonder why we didn't finish at least top half.
