Millwall Penalty Fiasco

Did anyone see Match of the Day on Saturday night? I taped it and have watched it several times and am still appalled that the commentators failed to mention that the penalty awarded to Millwall was taken from the Golf Road penalty spot, which I paid 50 quid to sponsor at the start of the season. Do they think I give them my hard-earned cash out of pure philanthropy? What a con!

Anyway, as cup games go, it was no great shakes. Not much atmosphere, though it was respectful of the 300-odd Millwall fans who travelled north to observe 90 minutes silence this remembrance weekend, and not much quality football barring the Alty goal and a few touches from Brkovic. Millwall were never realy under any pressure, but then again, their forwards never looked like scoring against 11 men. Both defences were on top of fairly toothless attacks in an unphysical tie where there was hardly a cynical challenge.

We would have been pleased to get to half-time level because Millwall had failed to capitalise on the strong wind at their backs; if the Lions did have a plan in the first half, it seemed to be "hit low crosses into the near post," but they'd only told the wide men and not the strikers, so it never came to anything.

The debatable sending off was a blow to Alty and, as is usual, we conceded another goal soon after. The 10 men battled hard but like Millwall failed to make the most of the conditions, although it must be said that the stature of our players is not suited to the typical non-league route-one tactic.

Good luck to Millwall in the next round. I'd like to see them give Barrow a good hiding, although Bournemouth will be favourites to progress, and it's a shame the extra 1,000 Alty fans who turned up to bait the away fans from 100 yards won't been seen anywhere near Moss Lane for the rest of the season.

Everybody now: "You ruined our crowd. You ruined our crowd. Fuck off Tesco. You ruined our crowd!"