Following Millwall FC: Fulham 0 Millwall 1 16/8/14 and a few other games

Sunday 7 September 2014

Fulham 0 Millwall 1 16/8/14 and a few other games

16/8/14 League Game 2 Fulham 0 Millwall 1 att: 18,988

That's two wins and six points

I bet that upset them over in West London as South East London comes to town and opened the fault and nicked the three points. We are now unbeaten for eleven games and Martyn Woolford carries on from last season by scoring yet again. He scored in the eleventh minute after receiving the ball from Ricardo Fuller. We took 4000 to this this game and what a fine sight they were.

Fulham spent thirteen years in the Premiership and I presume they have lots of money and although they were relegated last season they still have supposedly a premiership team. We defended strong and defended well and kept a clean sheet after Fulham did make a game of trying to get a goal but they weren't good enough.

Millwall: Forde, Edwards, Malone, Dunne, Beevers, Williams, Abdou(Gueye 78), Martin, McDonald, Woolford(Bailey 61), Fuller(Easter 72),
subs not used, Gerra, Webster,
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19/8/14 League Game 3 Sheffield Wednesday 1 Millwall 1 att: 20,636 (361)

Sheffield Wednesday supporters must have thought they had won this game but the Lions played right to the end and scored 5 minutes into extra time. It felt like a win and I was jumping about like we had won the FA Cup. Footballs great sometimes and nice thoughts to take to bed with you on a Tuesday night. Shame that the wife had a headache.

Both teams ended up with 10 men and both both undefeated.

Millwall: Forde, Edwards, Dunne, Beevers, Malone, Williams, Abdou (Gueye 59mins), Martin (Easter 89mins), McDonald, Martin, Gregory (Fuller 59mins).
Subs not used: Gerrar, Wright, Briggs, Webster.
Scorer: Gueye (95 mins ) phew that was close

Sheffield Wednesday: Westwood, Mattock, Hutchinson (Coke 66mins), Loovens, Semedo, May, Palmer, Nuhiu (Madine 71mins), Maguire, Lees, Maghoma (Helan 78mins).
Subs not used: Kirkland, McCabe, Zayatte, Corry.

Scorer: Maguire (56mins)

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23/8/14 League Game 4 Millwall 0 Rotherham United 1 att: 10282 (410)

There goes our unbeaten run

I have heard the performance from Millwall in this game described as Lomasesque as a flat Millwall couldn't beat Championship new boys Rotherham United. I am not sure what happened to the Ian Holloway effect but there was no sprinkling of "Ollies sparkle"
This defeat did surprise me as I didn't see it coming. Perhaps me and others including the team thought we were better that we actually are. I do not think we were wrong to think that because we have had a decent start and of course it was carrying on from last season.

A blessing in disguise? this may turn out to be as it's certainly opened my eyes. Ollies Magic? Fine up to a certain point but at the end of it all it's just about hard work and creating chances and putting a few away.

Millwall: Forde, Edwards, Malone, Dunne, Beevers, Malone; Williams, Wright (Gueye 50mins); Martin (Easter 71mins), McDonald, Woolford; Fuller (Gregory 84mins).

Subs not used: Gerrar, Briggs, Abdou, Webster.

Rotherham United: Collin, Broadfoot, Arnasan, Morgan, Skarz (Wood 81mins); Frecklington, Pringle (Brindle 90mins), Wordsworth, Smallwood; Taylor, Revell (Bowery, 87mins).
Subs not used: Loach, Tidser, Swift, Derbyshire.
Bookings: Skarz (56mins), Taylor (90+3mins)
Scorer: Pringle (49mins)

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26/9/14 Capital One Cup round 2 Millwall 0 Southampton 2 att: 6014 (1011)

The Lions sunk by two second half goals

We changed nine players from the team that lost to Rotherham but still managed to give Southampton a run for their money. We finished the game with five academy players on the pitch and they done all right. A good display by the Wall and all things considered 'the Capital One Cup, there's always next year.

Millwall: Forde, Hoyte Briggs, Williams, Webster, Powell, Abdou(Thompson 76 mins0, Chaplow (O'Brien 63 mins), Gueve(Onyedinma 63 mins), Easter, Marquis
subs not used, Gerrar, Siafa, Goodman, Gregory

Southampton: Forster, Clyne, Yoshida, Fonte, Long(Ramieez 91mins), Davis, Wanyama (Cork 46mins), Ward-Prowse, Pelle, Isgrove (Tadic 29mins), Targett
subs not used, Davis, Gardos, Taider, Stephens
Scorers, Cork 53mins, Pelle 94mins

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Striker Mathias Renegie joins the Lions from Watford on Loan to January. This player has played for Sweden and can score goals. He is a big man 6' 5" I do believe and it could be just what we are looking for.

30/8/14 League Game 5 Millwall 2 Blackpool 1 att: 9877

Back to winning ways

I am sure that Ian Holloway will tell the players that the game lasts for 90 minutes and not 70. We could have blown the 2-0 lead and if this was the same time last season we probably would have.

Blackpool finished the game looking for a equaliser in the last 20 minutes but we kept them out.

We do we keep slagging off players like Lee Hughes, Marlon King and Nile Ranger it nearly always comes back to haunt us and it was written that Nile Ranger would score and he did. It wasn't all gloom and we won this game because of two well taking goals one from Scott McDonald on 33 minutes and a well crafted goal from Scott McDonald after a assist from Jack Powell who delivered well from a free kick.

That's the fifth league game and not bad, 3 wins, 1 draw and one defeat, 10 points

Last season after 5 games, 2 draws and 3 defeats, 2 points

That Jack Powell looks useful. He could and probably will become a star. He was let go by West Ham last year and I must say "their loss".He has a point to prove and he is proving it. He has already "starred" for Millwall this season and I believe that he can go on to be a force to reckoned with.
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Millwall: Forde; Edwards, Beevers, Dunne, Malone; Powell (Webster 81mins), Williams; Woolford, McDonald, Martin (Gueye,78mins); Fuller (Ranegie 61mins).

Subs not used: Gerrar, Wester, Briggs, Easter, Gregor.

Scorers: McDonald (33mins), Malone (51mins)

Blackpool: Lewis, McMahon, Daniels, Clarke, J Oriol, Perkins, Lundstram (E. Oriol 74mins) Orlandi, Zoko, Delfouneso (Ranger 56mins), Miller (Davies 65mins).

Subs not used: Parish, Rentmeister, Zenjov, Cywka

Scorer: Ranger (71mins)

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We are getting very cosmopolitan as we sign our first Spaniard ex Espanyol and Blackpool midfielder Angel Martinez. I am struggling to remember some of these new players names let alone pronounce them.

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Championship 2013/14 Season

19/3/14

Oh! what a season. Not one of our best

All football is eventful and that includes ours over the course of the season but for us it certainly has not been successful. A change of manager that up to this point has not produced a change in fortune as in winning a few more games, but I am always hopeful. We have some decent players who I know can win football games but the problem is, so does nearly everybody else. Ten games to go, 30 points up for grabs and I shall carry on doing the Blog thinking that we will stay up. When it's mathematically not possible to do that, then a new chapter begins. Whatever happens I will of course stick with my blogging as I am always proud to say "I support Millwall"

3/5/14 Oh! what a season, but we finish it the Millwall way

I was right to stick with them as they turned it around in the last eight games and finished the season in style. I have a "full this seasons page" as well as"this seasons home page posts" within this Blogspot and if you scroll down a tad and you will find the 2013/14 page link if you fancy a browse.

Yipee, I'm safe

26/3/13

With the David Cameron press law taking up a lot of news print lately I have skipped over it because I found it very boring. I as a Millwall supporter get treated like muck by the press and the media in general, but I do not agree with politicians telling us what we can and cannot say and that was as far as my interest went, but today I read a piece of news print that said 'Ministers agreed to exclude small scale Blogs They do, do they? well bless them, who do they think they are? They have u-turned over small independent Bloggers such as I. That's not the main story here, the main story is that " it's incredible that they tried to push this through in the first place" Under their original proposed press law, this very Blog would come under the jackboot of the press-law police, and they say that UKIP are extremists.

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Stats.Tables and the like=Soccerway

I am not that keen to stuff my Millwall Blog full of league tables and statistics, so I haven't. Doing that sort of thing is time consuming and you have to pay attention to detail. I mush prefer others to do that, so when Soccerway asked me to be their partner I said yes. If you click on the Soccerway link below it will take you to the Millwall page(s). There is a link at the bottom of their page(s) which will take you back here or to my other Millwall blog site 7 Windmills. I find their site useful for Millwall stuff at a glance and it certainly saves me a lot of writing and compiling etc. I have not scrutinised the stats, so not sure if it is 100% accurate but it seems ok.

The Luton game

I have many memories of that game and the journey there.

I remember standing on one foot because there wasn't any room to put the other one down, never been so squashed.

I had a stinking cold at the time and could not put me hand in my pocket to get my hankie because I coudn't move my arms.

I was glad when they burst out at the front, as I could breath again. I wasn't happy with what followed but I understand the reason for getting out of that crush. Perhaps if the police had a bit more savvy it could have been sorted in a better way. I went by car with three others to the game and enjoyed winding up the locals on the CB that I had on board (it was popular then). Some women CBer accused me of peeing in her garden I assured her it wasn't me as I had not got out of the car yet. I have never been back since.

Other football Blogs

I have had a look around the internet to see who else is doing Blog's about their football club and was hoping to exchange some banter but what I found did surprise me. I must admit I did not see them all so I cannot really say that none were like mine but the ones I found were unfriendly and they were based on a commercial outlook with adverts and links to main stream football sites and the like. I wanted to find a Stoke City Blog site so I could avoid copyright issues and ask for the use of a picture of their old stadium, Victoria Ground, so I could use it within my post on page 3 of this site. I found a Blog site which had pictures ,which said do not use any material from this Blog without permission from the Blog owner/publisher, which is fair enough. The problem was there was no method within this site to contact the owner/publisher, there was no comment section, no email, no nothing. All of the Blog sites that I found were like this and in my view very disappointing. If anybody knows different please let me know. I have tried within my Blogspot's to not just show my passion for Millwall FC but also a little bit of me, what other interests I have and what is around me where I live. I have a comments post on each Blogspot site and a email address within my profile so that people can contact me and perhaps contribute to the Blog's etc.

Constructive criticism is always welcome.

I am not sure if my way is the best way but I have not sold my soul to the advertising racket, I would though like to thank Google for provided the opportunity for me to have these Blogs and I do enjoy the hours of fun putting them together and showing them to the world and it's all for free

UPDATE

21/10/13

I am starting to find much more football Blog's that are a bit more 'friendly and have more of a independent feel about them.

The Millwall Way

Kenny Jackett said it "we didn't practice that in training but you know what players are like" .

You may ask, practice what?

Call it what you like "the long ball, the ball over the top or direct play" Kenny was talking after the home game against QPR where Millwall's direct attacking play resulted in a scorcher of a goal scored by Steve Morison. KJ's statement got me thinking and the first thing that come to me was "I hope they do practice it because it is a part of the game and is a useful style of play that can bring results". At Millwall I think it can come from the crowd in as much as fancy patterns of play and little triangles of pretty passing don't really go with the Millwall roar.

Simply put

The crowd urges Millwall on and at all costs the desire is to score a goal, why mess up, just get the ball in the back of the net.

OZ 13-03-2011

Ambiguous reporting

The way that the media like to sex up anything and everything related to Millwall FC or it's fans has been noted by me and I presume others for years. I think it really come to light when the Cardiff fan fell out of the top tier of the way end at the Den and the BBC football league show that is late on tv Saturday night the same day of the match rather ambiguously reported the incident.

At 6 pm shortly after the game I looked on various news websites including the BBC and they all reported this incident with the Cardiff fan and by the middle of the evening it was common news across the country and elsewhere but apparently not on the BBC football league show at midnight. The presenter reported it as follows:

There has been a incident at the Den, not sure what it is but when we get news we will let you know, this statement in my opinion had the desired effect of sowing the seeds into people's mind of " Millwall fans mis-behaving again" and I think it was reported like this on purpose.

OZ 26/3/2011

Referee's, I use the term lightly a bit of a moan

No one like us

Supporting Millwall over many years I believe gives me the right to comment about referee's but not just how competent they are but also how they referee a game when one of the teams happen to be Millwall FC .

The chicken type. Scared to death to ref at the Den, makes mistakes all night, easily intimidated, fails to give the Lions a blatant free kick, opposition break away and score and probably win the game.

This Games all about me type. Arrives at the Den the Mr Big and proceeds to make the rest of the night all about him. Gives the opposition the decisions all through the game and fails to spot a shirt pull which cost's us the game.

The Agent type. This type is on a mission, to make sure that Millwall don't do well. I see a lot of this watching Millwall and after a while you can smell it. We penned a song about it...

MILLWALL FC

Sunday 7 September 2014

Fulham 0 Millwall 1 16/8/14 and a few other games