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Date: 15 March 2011 02:47:27
What more could a football supporter want?
Three-nil, that's what!
Saturday was a sad day for Burnley in another way as well. I went there to see a football match. And we had a famous victory. Not a lot happened in the first half - the BBC website said that Burnley had most of the possession but it didn't look like it from our end - James Henry in particular was hammering at them like a hero for attack after attack. There were some attempts at goal, but Burnley simply didn't look as if they were trying that hard. They almost seemed to be willing to settle for a draw. Which might have made sense from QPR away to Millwall earlier in the week - they are so far up the table they don't need to beat Millwall - but is not a good tactic from Burnley at home, still four points shy of the play-offs, and with only nine more games to go.
And just like QPR on Tuesday, whatever they were trying backfired. They couldn't get past Millwall's defence for the first hour or so of the game, then they let in a goal they should have stopped. Then they woke up, smelled the coffee (or should that be the cider?) and suddenly realised they could lose. And did lose, just like that. Just as against QPR (where it worked) and Middlesborough (where it didn't, but was hair-raising fun to watch) Millwall kept on coming, right to the final whistle, and the other lot didn't manage to organise a fight back. Paul Robinson got a second goal, and the third fell to Andros Townsend, a teenager on loan from Spurs, his first score for the team.
Scary Millwall supporters walking to the ground (& yes there were cops waiting for the half dozen or so of us who got of the train)
Of course when we actually got there there were mostly local fans:
Important things first:
The away end of the ground is a lot like Palace. But it was quite comfortable as there were only about 400 of us, not the 4,000 of squeezed into one toilet the day we went to Norwood.
Look at the large crowd at the other end. (That's important. There will be questions later)
There is even a pillar in the way. At least I could move around to see past it.
Its an odd feeling knowing that all these cops are here to protect the 14,000 at the other end of the pitch from us:
Oh, did I say 14,000? Look again. The game has about ten minutes to go, but most of them have left:
