It can only go downhill from here...

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Date: 30 May 2010 14:26:56

Well that was fun. And very loud, My ears hurt a little at the end and I was slightly deafened by the noise, and its not often that that happens just from people shouting. So my first season regularly going to Millwall matches turns out to have been an almost perfect season. It could have been a Roy of the Rovers story. They started crap, had loads of players injured, suddenly got better about six weeks into the season (in fact at exactly the moment I walked in late to the first game I attended - they scored one more or less as I sat down and another withn ten minutes), powered up the table with hardly a defeat in three months, trouncing both Leeds (their biggest arivals in that League) and Charlton (their nearest neighbours in south-east London) kicking both of them out of the promotion spots, then faltered right at the end with a stupid loss to fall back to one point outside the top two, nearly clawed they way back in in an amazing last Saturday of the season - five different teams were up for promotion on the same day, qnd the actual result not clear till the last minutes of the matches. And then a clean sheet in the playoffs that were a lot more interesting than only three goals in three games would imply. And victory in the final coming from a goal scored by the captain... you wouldn't script it. They say the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to win on their first visit to a casino because they keep on coming back. I still haven't seen them lose. It can only go downhill from here... Some pictures of the crowd celebrating - but not of the actual match because every time I began to take one during the play something happened so I had to stop taking the picture and pay attention... so no good pictures. So fans behaving slightly badly before the match: Wembley, 2010 League One playoff Heavies on the pitch looking slightly scared of us during the award ceremony: Wembley, 2010 League One playoff The empty far end: Wembley, 2010 League One playoff And the happy crowd struggling up the steps into the tube station. Which must be one of the worst laid out I've ever seen. Wembley, 2010 League One playoff