Pass and move, it’s the Millwall groove. Thankfully, not another football-themed assault on the eardrums, but the new mantra of Lions boss Kenny Jackett. After what seems like an eternity dangling over the League 1 precipice, Jackett’s season-long efforts to remodel his side’s style of play seem finally to have come to fruition. Millwall currently sit just below champions Reading in the Championship form chart, with five consecutive wins this month. And it hasn’t all been blood and thunder, as might be expected (although there has been a bit of that). The highlights reel from Saturday’s destruction of Ipswich contains a pleasing range of movement and link-up play. Leading the…
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Diary of a Footballer
Only a Game: The Diary of a Professional Footballer By Eamon Dunphy Published by Penguin (second edition) July 1998, £8.99, ISBN: 9780140102901 Left Foot in the Grave By Garry Nelson Published by CollinsWillow August 1998, available from 1p, ISBN: 9780002187749 Everyone wants to be a footballer. I still do, and I’m 37. But in the absence of a shift of our solar equilibrium (although I do have a decent left foot), I spent a significant part of my Christmas period reading the day-to-day accounts two professional footballers: Eamon Dunphy and Garry Nelson. Within the contours of football literati, they are…
Capital: London Football, Present and Future
In an article last year, The Economist coined the phrase `Londonism’ to refer to what it regarded as a distinct ideology driven by the office of Mayor. It cited as the central tenets of `Londonism’: enthusiasm for the financial services industry; an openness to immigration; and the unceasing pursuit of economic growth. The success of this new way of thinking, according to the piece, is symbolized by the redevelopment of the Docklands to the east of the city’s centre. The landscape of this part of the city is now replete with tall, shimmering citadels of global financial behemoths, futuristically-designed transport hubs and high-value property developments. Unsurprisingly, however, the article fails to look beyond the streets…
The Thursday Preview: Millwall Vs. Nottingham Forest
Although Paul Lambert richly deserved the Football League Manager of the Season award that we allocated a month or two back, Kenny Jackett was another among those uppermost in our thinking. It was only in April that Millwall’s chances of a second promotion on the trot were extinguished and the New Den boss’s achievement in re-establishing the South Londoners’ rock like imperviousness should not go un-noticed.Last saturday at Reading, the resilience of the Lions’ hides was immediately apparent. Shorn of their leading marksman, the Norwich-bound Steve Morison, many outside South Bermondsey have written Millwall off this year, but a new striking combination paid off with…
Neil Harris: Looking Forward
Yesterday marked the end of an era at the Den. Neil Harris’ departure for the northern shore of the Thames Estuary brought to an end a second spell in Millwall blue and put a downer on many a Millwall supporter’s afternoon.It had been obvious for some time that we were watching a club legend in action. I can’t think of many other players who have achieved two promotions with the club and, in this age where any decent goalscoring prospect will be lured into the Premier League forest before they’ve had a chance to put down roots, Harris’ club record…
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