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Following the sad passing of John Docherty this week I am sure there will be tributes and a minutes applause prior to kick off.

A Glaswegian, John Docherty was team manager during arguably one of the most exciting and successful periods in Millwall:s history.

Cascarino, Sheringham, Carter, Hurlock, Dawes… household names in a pack of lions that fought their way into the top flight and had they stayed a little longer could have taken part in what is now the English Premier League .

Those days and nights under the Doc’s tenure at Cold Blow Lane stand out strong in my memory.

The midweek 4-1 win over Coventry City, today’s opponents that sent the Lions top of the league

The midweek win, 4-2 over Sheffield Wednesday where they’d rescued it from being 0-2 down at half time.

And even though they lost this game at home to Norwich, what a game, what an atmosphere, was on TV live on the Sunday…

Have to add that I was a bit surprised that the Doc was as old as 84 too – goes to show that as managers come and go and as years roll on we tend to not think about them so much as we should.

I will raise a can in his memory on the journey up – it’s a sombre occasion but I hope it will be a minutes applause rather than silence to remember and rejoice everything John Docherty did for Millwall Football Club.

ORIGINAL POST

I would like to make a proper day out for this one, wanting to pick up those two retro shirts first and then heading back to London Bridge area for lunch.

The problem is there’s very little around the New Den and even if you took another stop down from South Bermondsey station and got off at Queens Road Peckham there’s very little there either.

I read up on Beer Rebellion which has changed hands and apparently the beer menu is much depleted from what it was and is described as a “weird little pub” by one reviewer on Instagram.

As a fan of real ale my mission would be to find a pub that suits near to London Bridge station.

A search to that end brought up The Shipwrights and The Horseshoe (pictured below).

The ales look decent enough – let’s hope the food is, if not there are plenty of eateries around.

This will mean an 8am start, earlier than usual.

MATCH TICKET 🎫

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Area: 03 Row: E Seat: 62

Hopefully the Lions will still be top ten, depending on what they get at Oxford. They’ll have a game in hand as well after Tuesday’s lights out fiasco at Fratton Park.

My take on the Sunderland game was seeing the team sheet and thinking don’t play Honeyman as the ten. Harris abandoned that idea at half-time.

I would rather see Azeez and Emakhu on the flanks and maybe Esse as the ten or even Langstaff if he is going to play Coburn up top.

Cooper is a huge miss at the back obviously and I was saying to the old man next to me if he was playing, Sunderland don’t get that goal.

And it reminded me of the 1999 Auto Windscreens final a Wembley. Remember when Nethercott headed a clearance in the dying seconds and the Wigan player just ran in to score the winning goal.

One of the most sickening of moments seen from up the other end, watch this or don’t bother. 😐