Millwall 0 – 1 Coventry City

In the end, the best team won, no complaints about that.

The referee though. 🙄

If we had managed to actually score (our biggest issue) surely Thomas Bramall would have found any excuse to rule it out.

Millwall had an early goal direct from Joe Bryan’s corner disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Brad Collins, but otherwise it took 30 minutes for either team to produce any effort of note.

One chap at half time was asking me did I know why the goal had been ruled out. The ref was outside the penalty box and must have had supersonic vision to have seen that through a melee of players.

Outside of that though and with all the injuries taken into consideration, did I agree with the starting eleven?

Of course not, seldom do but it’s obvious Harris doesn’t rate Emakhu and there was Honeyman again and suddenly Watmore was back too.

Apart from the early disallowed goal what everyone can at least agree on is that the first half was as nondescript as you could wish to see.

Coventry started the second half much better. They looked tricky, up for the fight and with several short spells of pressure the goal was always coming.

Very impressed by their turnout, as many in the north stand as Sunderland had AND much louder too.

Many years back I’d be in South upper but the atmosphere isn’t the same these days, it’s died a death.

Not sure why but yesterday CBL lower was half empty and upper wasn’t much better. In fact looking around the stadium I was astonished to see the gate was 16,340 – didn’t look anything like it.

The Dockers was louder and the only time it’s a decent noise seems to be after we have scored. I say we need to get the noise up to the levels of before.

Coventry were loud and proud so Frank Lampard aside, fair play to them. The only suss thing was them singing along to Olivia Newton-John.

At least our build up menu primarily involves The Jan and The Clash. Enough said.

So their goal was a conversion from a cross which had Jensen back-pedaling but being unable to keep the ball out and Bobby Thomas almost doubled the lead but his 86th-minute header rattled the post.

The last ten minutes and the added five minutes was all Millwall who tried their best bless them but unlike the Sunderland game, failed to muster a goal.

I counted three shots from outside the box, one of those being Langstaff in the first half, that flew over the crossbar. Can’t speak for others but I find that irksome, surely better off shooting lower down at the goal.

Both teams will finish mid-table I think. You want the best for your own team but realistically it’s probably the best we can hope for.

We know the Championship is mad and anything can still happen and yes you can point at Blackburn right now with three wins and three clean sheets on the spin.

But we’rere not Blackburn are we.

Storm Darrah meant that pretty much all southern routes were cancelled owing to trees on the line and having managed to get as far as Woking and on learning that there was no way of getting back to Weymouth I ended up with a night at a Travelodge.

At least England won the cricket!

I will be back in the New Year but not for Dagenham. Not sure many will bother turning out for that.

So until then a happy Christmas to all Lions fans and let’s hope the treatment room improves soon – when results take a dip you always say well, look at the players we’ve got out.