"[179][180] Trouble was reported at Loftus Road on 26 March 1966 during a match between Queens Park Rangers and Millwall, at a time when both sides were near the top of the league table pushing for promotion to Division Two, but the London derby was won 61 by the west London based team, QPR. [9] The estimated cost of The Den was 10,000. Wout Weghorst has been immense in Manchester Uniteds campaign ever since his arrival in January. The striker is yet to score this season, but, during last campaign, he tallied up 13 goals in total with seven coming from headed efforts. Millwall share a fierce rivalry with Leeds United. The Austrian will have an instrumental role to play for Manchester United in the coming months. Score prediction: Fulham 2-2 Leeds United. A7,500 fine was levied against Millwall, though this was later withdrawn on appeal. The rivalry between the teams is intensified by both clubs' passionate fans and association with football hooliganism. The appointment of Kenny Jackett as manager on 6 November 2007, proving crucial. Ian Harte (10 Jamie Vardy scores the first of two goals in the match between Leicester and Millwall in November 2013. [32] Millwall lost 51 on aggregate to Derby County in the play-off semi-finals that same 199495 season, in a tie blighted by crowd trouble. As United had already qualified for the UEFA Champions League, Millwall were assured of playing in the UEFA Cup. From then until 1993, the club played at what is now called The Old Den in New Cross, before moving to its current home stadium nearby, called The Den. Millwall experienced a difficult season, having had four managers in 2005. Wout Weghorst has been immense in Manchester Uniteds campaign ever since his arrival in January. [48] The 199798 season was not a successful one, with the club hovering close to relegation to the fourth tier. Liverpool players have been called up for international duty by 16 different organisations. Millwall players inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame:[141]. They competed in it for 22 seasons until 1920, claiming the title twice in 1895 and 1896. The club also won the cup in the following two years, and the trophy became their property. [161] The club's widest victory margin in the league is 91,[162] a scoreline which they achieved twice in their Football League Third Division South championship-winning year of 1927. The game had been much hyped due to City's signing of then-England goalkeeper David James. WebMillwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in New Cross, south-east London, that plays in the Football League One, the second tier of English football. [112], A tradition at The Den is the playing of the official club song[113] "Let 'em Come", by Roy Green, as Millwall and the opposing team walk onto the pitch. Millwall going forwards Having the aerial presence of Matt Smith in their side, Millwall often put crosses into the box for the 65 forward to latch onto. [18] Their 1937 FA Cup run saw Millwall reach the semi-finals for the third time, and a fifth-round game against Derby still stands as Millwall's record attendance of 48,762. WebSince then, Millwall have played in leagues below the Premier League. [16] Millwall became known as a hard-fighting Cup team and competed in various memorable matches, notably defeating three-time league winners and reigning champions Huddersfield Town 31 in the third round of the 192627 FA Cup. 99. [115] The song "Shoeshine Boy" by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band was played as the entrance song before "Let 'em Come". There was fighting inside and outside the ground during the game between both sets of supporters, with one Millwall fan sustaining a broken jaw. [77] Club record goalscorer Neil Harris returned to Millwall as a coach on 23 June 2013 after retiring as a player through injury. Millwall have averaged a gate close to 12,000 per home game over their 93 seasons in the Football League, while the club have spent the majority of that time yo-yoing back and forth between the second and third tiers of English football. [162] Millwall's largest Cup win was 70 over Gateshead in 1936. In 2013, the club reached the semi-finals of the 201213 FA Cup. [51], In 2003, Dennis Wise, ex-Chelsea and England player, became caretaker, and subsequently permanent player-manager, of the club. They drew 00 at The Den and 22 at Selhurst Park. The Trust offers sports and fitness programmes, educational workshops, disability activities and soccer schools. The smoke and smell of bubbling fat from a burger van mixes with the The Red Devils won the match 10-0 and gained a place in the Premier League record books. A television drama about a Millwall supporter and ex-docker, starring David Jason, featured a lyric from the song in its title, Come Rain Come Shine. =8. The Sun newspaper ran the sensationalist grenade-related headline "Soccer Marches to War! Only Football League and senior cup competitions included. Having scrolled back through the archives, weve picked out the nine players to have hit double figures for free-kicks in the English top flight since 1992. rivalry, List of Millwall F.C. The Old Trafford club has finally ended their six-year title drought with a Carabao Cup/EFL Cup. The game saw hundreds of West Ham fans invade the pitch on three occasions, forcing the game to be temporarily suspended once. The first change of colour from navy blue to royal blue. WebRead about Millwall v Burnley in the EFL Cup 2020/21 season, including lineups, stats and live blogs, on the official website of the Premier League. [104] In the 2000s the club started to recognise its unique link with London's docks by introducing Dockers' Days, and archiving the club's dock roots in the Millwall FC Museum. Millwall, then a Southern League side, went on to reach the semi-final. [178] As a result, rival hooligan firms gained access to the stadium. [125] Despite violence between the two sets of supporters and calls for future games between the clubs to be played behind closed doors, they last met in the Football League Championship in 201112 with no outright ban on either set of fans, and no repeat of crowd trouble. Bonds was sacked and replaced by Keith "Rhino" Stevens, with Alan McLeary as his assistant. The book looks at the rivalry with West Ham United, the stabbing of a Millwall supporter and the Lions play-off success and promotion to The Championship under Kenny Jackett.[259]. [131] It continued into the 200809 season; where the teams were vying for promotion to the Championship, culminating in Millwall knocking Leeds out of the League One playoffs at the semi-final stage. [108][18] A Sporting CP team, managed by Bobby Robson helped open the ground by playing a friendly, which The Lions lost 21. Anthony Knockaert, David Nugent and Jeffrey Schlupp got the goals for the Foxes with Richard Chaplow scoring for Millwall. "The problem of mob violence is not solely a Millwall problem, it is not a football problem, it is a problem which plagues the whole of our society", he said. It went on sale to fans, with proceeds going to Headley Court, a rehabilitation centre for injured members of the British Armed Forces. This was achieved with considerable volunteer labour by Lions fans. [88] Millwall made it to the League One play-off final at Wembley for the second successive year, after beating Scunthorpe United 32 in the semi-final. [65] Over the course of the next two seasons Jackett led Millwall to two top six finishes in League One, in fifth and third place respectively. It was later retrieved by police and determined to be a harmless dummy. [83] He was unable to ensure survival, however, as Millwall's relegation to League One was confirmed on 28 April with one game of the 201415 season still to play. Millwall went unbeaten in the last eight games of the 201314 season and finished in 19th place, four points above the relegation zone. [106], For the 201314 season, Millwall chose the charity Prostate Cancer UK to sponsor their shirt for free. Millwall reached the 2004 FA Cup final and qualified for Europe for the first time in their history, playing in the UEFA Cup. [5] Millwall won the East London Senior Cup at the first attempt. The attendance was 90,000, the largest crowd Millwall have ever played in front of, which included King George VI, whom the team were introduced to before kick-off. [2] For the first 50 years, up until 1936, they played in a traditional navy blue, similar to the colours of Scotland national team. [29] The goalscoring record is held by former manager Neil Harris, with 138 in all competitions. After a play-off final defeat in the 200809 season against Scunthorpe United and losing out on automatic promotion on the last day of the 200910 season to Leeds United by one point, Millwall made it back to Wembley, finally breaking the play-off hoodoo run of five successive failures in 1991, 1994, 2000, 2002 and 2009, with a 10 win in the 2010 League One play-off final against Swindon Town, securing a return to the Football League Championship after a four-year absence. Rowett then guided the club to 11th and 9th the following two seasons. [81][82] The following season, Holloway was sacked on 10 March 2015 with the team second from bottom in the Championship, and Neil Harris was reinstated as caretaker manager until the end of the season. Millwall made it to the final against London Caledonians, which was played at Leyton Cricket Ground. [120] The game was also blighted by allegations of racist chanting. On 22 May 2004 Millwall played Manchester United in the FA Cup Final, losing 30. The club was forced to move on again though, this time by the Millwall Dock Company who wanted to use it as a timberyard. getting to the den; matchday activities; disabled supporters; hospitality [148] Bob Hunter is Millwall's longest serving manager, having stayed at the helm for 15 years. Premier League clubs will foot the majority of the bill for English footballs first-ever independent regulator. Spurs have won four-of-five in Premier League play and their 45 points are four more than fifth-place Newcastle, who has played two fewer games. Brentford's goalkeeper Chic Brodie picked it up, inspected it and threw it into his goal. It is one of the most passionately contested local derbies in football. The 2022-23 Premier League fixtures. [11] Millwall won the game 10 in front of a crowd of 3000. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. It led to a ban on away supporters by Luton from their Kenilworth Road ground for four years. They moved to their third home, The Athletic Grounds, on 6 September 1890. The club did have a brief spell in the top flight between 1988 and 1990, in which they achieved their highest ever league finish of tenth place in the First Division in 198889. This was especially true for Millwall, who appeared to suffer more than most. [205] In the next game at the Den against QPR on 8 December 2020, Millwall fans applauded as QPR and Millwall players raised aloft an anti-racism banner about inequality in football. The first team to do so was Manchester United against Ipswich Town in 1995. The most passionately contested local derbies in football rivalry between the teams is intensified by clubs. 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