Whatever happens now, this season has been a sensation for Millwall; no higher league finish since 1990, Teddy Sheringham, Tony Cascarino and all that. Whatever happens now, they have muscled in with the parachute payment crowd and the free spenders. Whatever happens now, Alex Neil has outperformed all optimistic expectations, let alone the reasonable ones.
Whatever happens now, there is something to build upon and whatever happens now something significant has already been built. John Berylson’s tragic passing in 2023 could have left a vacuum in south London. Whatever happens now, his son James has done his father proud in every way.
And whatever happens now is the most exciting bit of all. Not for 22 years has Millwall’s Championship season extended beyond 46 matches. The play-offs have one certainty: to give you the worst or best day of your football season. So make peace with it and just dream your own dream.
Millwall are still being undervalued, for no good reason. They finished third in the Championship. They lost once away from home against the top eight in the division (Coventry City, in January).
Alex Neil has transformed Millwall (Photo: PA)Over the final 30 matches of the regular season, they sat a point off the top. The only reason to write them off is because you never expected them to be there at all and you haven’t really processed it yet.
It is the result of a masterclass in tactical coaching from Neil, who found a formula that worked and has maximised its advantages. Millwall ranked 17th of 24 for possession and 22nd for completed passes but played the highest percentage of their passes forward and recorded the most crosses and accurate crosses.
There is a Millwall type of goal: win possession in their own half, two quick passes, a winger set free and a cross for an onrushing forward. They were also third for set-piece goals. They are direct and they are exciting and that works here because it is exactly what their supporters want to see.
It also works because Millwall have been excellent at soaking up pressure. Jake Cooper is a modern club legend, named Player of the Year and part of a defence that kept the most clean sheets in the Championship. Tristan Crama, equally massive and equally dependable, sits next to Cooper.
This can’t happen without effective squad-building. Between January and August 2025, Millwall received the three highest transfer fees in the club’s history. They effectively supercharged a player trading model, reinvesting by signing five players for fees last summer, all 25 or below.
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Six of their eight players with more than 30 league starts this season are still aged 24 or under. It’s the fifth lowest average age with a bottom-half wage bill finishing third – what’s not to like?
“What’s not to like?” is a loaded question where Millwall are concerned. There are things that you have heard about elements of the fanbase and there are things that you may well have seen for yourself. Deliberately ignoring those issues is counterproductive.
But there are two important things to say here. The first is that I haven’t been inside a club that does better work – earlier, harder, more groundbreaking – to try to erode that reputation, to educate and to (where necessary) remove those who refuse to abide by the principles of anti-discrimination. They set up the first anti-discriminatory body at an English football club in 1994 and they continue to lead the way. You don’t have to believe that, but it’s true.
Millwall fans are daring to dream (Photo: PA)Secondly, the pantomime elements – booing injured players, taunting opposition supporters, vitriol towards officials – is prevalent at lots of football clubs and barely merits mention at any of them. And where the line is crossed, it reflects a football problem not a Millwall problem and a societal problem not a football problem.
Off the pitch has been exciting for a long while. Last year, Millwall purchased the freehold of the club’s training ground, allowing greater investment in facilities to bring the club to the upper level of the Championship.
Hospitality areas in the stadium are being upgraded and their home itself is now safe after years of campaigning. It will form part of the greater New Bermondsey regeneration project to transform an area of inner-city, industrial south London.
Now football is going hand in hand with the rest and life is rosy enough that it’s hard to trust it at all. As Nick Hart of the Achtung Millwall podcast jokes, exciting and fun are words that he’s never really associated with Millwall before. The halcyon days don’t always have to exist in the past.
Millwall won’t ever be popular. They can make their peace with that and they can continue to make it their niche. If it means that everyone else overlooks the excellent stuff – the progress, the growth, the investment in infrastructure and the work of a family to honour a man they lost – then it will only help them. Millwall are brilliantly run, brilliantly managed and brilliantly positioned to make the next step.
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