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29th February After a flare
was thrown on the pitch from the Millwall section during the
Luton match, chairman John Berylson reacts angrily in the
South London Press, "Fans are worried I am getting angry
about this issue - well they have every reason to be. This
mindless violence is killing this club. If they want me to
leave, this is how to go about it. Results would not force
me out, but seeing this club destroyed by something that happened
off the pitch could make me think again.”
28th February It is perhaps
somewhat ironic that the week Neil Harris has his Millwall
career terminated by his manager, Teddy Sheringham also retires.
27th February
Preston midfielder Adam Nowland joins the Lions for a trial
period…
…This is the City’s
spin on the latest accounts, “Millwall posted a pretax
loss of about 2.52 mln stg for the six months to Nov 30, compared
with a loss of about 2.86 mln in the previous year, on revenues
of about 2.1 mln stg, down from 2.4 mln.”
25th February
Luton Town 1 Millwall 1: In what was a fairly dreary
match in which the visitors struggle to contain Luton’s
attack, a point is a welcome relief, if hardly deserved. Paul
Furlong grabbed a lead for Luton somewhat against the run
of play, but Lewis Grabban equalised before half time. It
was hang-on-in-there stuff after that…
…Colin
West does the press thing afterwards and says, “Luton
still have a chance to stay up and we knew it was not going
to be easy. It's a tight pitch and they were aggressive and
got in our faces - but we were ready for it"…
…Kenny Jackett explains
the Neil Harris ‘situation’ to the South London
Press, "I understand what fans feel because Neil has
been a fantastic servant for this club. But I have to make
what I feel are the best decisions for Millwall's future.
He is frustrated at not being in the side and I've told him
he can go out on loan if he wants to get games."
23rd February
Millwall 3 Port Vale 0: Against the worst side in
the division, playing a debutant centre half and missing three
first choice defenders (just putting in some perspective),
Millwall ran riot. It could have been six, but goals for Grabban,
Laird and a goal of the season winner by Dave Martin secured
the points...
...Kenny
Jackett is pleased, “There have been a lot of changes,
in terms of personal and dressing room dynamic, but I want
to keep building”...
...That building process
will be without Neil Harris, who will be discarded by the
manager and replaced by Bas Savage.
19th February
Huddersfield Town 1 Millwall 0: Despite dominating
the early exchanges the Lions are left to rue an opening minute
miss by Gary Alexander, as Huddersfield score the only goal
via an undeserved penalty. So undeserved that it managed to
be offside, not a foul and outside the area!..
…Manager Jackett
wants everyone to stay positive, "We had some young players
out there that showed some nice touches. We created chances
and looked like we had the pace to get behind their defence,
but just couldn't take advantage of it."
16th February
Tranmere Rovers 2 Millwall 0: More roll over and
die stuff on the road, as Tranmere extend their unbeaten run
to seven games with a comfortable win. Shane Sherriff opened
the scoring, Ian Moore finished it. It could have been more…
…Kenny Jackett says
afterwards, "We started brightly enough and were very
positive but once we conceded from a corner the confidence
seeped out of us. If we are going to lose we have got to go
down fighting and we didn't fight."
15th February Gavin Grant joins
Stevenage Borough on loan for a month.
12th February
Millwall 2 Southend United 1: Despite going a goal
down this was a much better display, ably led by Dave Martin,
who set up the equaliser for Gary Alexander before scoring
a deserved winner. Former Fisher trialist Darren Scannell
is red carded for a two footed lunge on Zak Whitbread…
…Kenny
Jackett says, "It's very nice to come back from a terrific
strike from the Southend boy. We couldn't manage that kind
of response against Doncaster and Nottingham Forest, but we
responded very well against Southend"...
…Shrimpers
boss Steve Tilson is magnanimous in defeat, "There were
more than 1,000 [Southend fans] of them watching us but I'm
afraid we weren't good enough and let ourselves down"…
…Jamie
O'Hara says some nice things in the South London Press, "I
am very grateful to Millwall for improving my game so much.
Playing for the team my family supported has changed my life.
I will always remember that. It made me grow up as a player.
The fans were brilliant with me, too. I had some bad games,
but they got behind me and that really helped."
9th
February Nottingham Forest 2 Millwall 0: In another
collapso away day performance, the Lions succumb to goals
by Julian Bennett and Luke Chambers in what is an otherwise
fairly even game. The difference was Millwall can't defend
set-pieces and can't score goals away from home…
…Manager Jackett
says, "It was very annoying to concede at the start of
the second half after we'd frustrated the crowd and kept a
clean sheet in the first half. I'd have liked for us to have
been more of a threat in the last half-hour, when we couldn't
really make any headway against their centre-halves."
2nd February
Millwall 0 Doncaster Rovers 3: In what was undoubtedly
the worst performance since Paul Merson's Portsmouth ran five
in against us, Doncaster absolutely crush an truly woeful
Lions side. James Coppinger ran the game and scored the second
after Jason Price opened the scoring. Green finished it off,
but it could have been ten…
…Manager Jackett
is not happy, but then no-one is, "It was the most disappointing
performance since I've been here. Doncaster got at us very
quickly and denied us time on the ball - they were quicker,
sharper and first to things throughout the game."
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