Achtung! Millwall Podcast

When I was a child, my Dad subscribed to the Reader’s Digest. For mysterious reasons, one article entitled ‘The Death of the Dinosaurs’ stuck (and remains stuck) in my mind. It pictured a luridly drawn semi-tropical world, with a nuclear style meteorite explosion in action, with various Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pterodactyl and other less obvious creatures, including small mammals such as mice, all fleeing the rapidly expanding mushroom cloud. I defy anyone not to see what I saw and not still have it imprinted on your memory 40 years later. Well the message seemed clear, it would be the great beasts who perished in the apocalypse, whilst the more mobile and smaller animals would go on to inherit the Earth. In my later-life, the post-1992 analogy with the loss of the great English football stadiums by the meteor that was the Taylor Report, was apparent. To this day I think of the Reader’s Digest image as a kind of ‘message’ sent across time - the falling dinosa

ALF WOOD 1945 - 2020 One sure sign of advancing age is the passing away of the heroes of your youth. So it is that Millwall fans of an early 1970s vintage, were saddened to learn of the passing of Alf Wood, announced by the club on April 13th 2020. Wood signed for £45,000 for the Lions in June 1972 from Shrewsbury Town, where he had made some 258 appearances and scored 65 goals, having begun his career with Manchester City in 1963. The early seventies were years of heartbreaking failure and inexorable decline at Cold Blow Lane and Alf signed in the traumatic aftermath of the near-miss promotion season of 1971-72. A home win over Preston on the last day of the season, fuelled by a false rumour that rivals Birmingham City had lost at Sheffield Wednesday, sent The Den into a pitch invading state of ecstasy.  Only for the truth that the Blues had actually won to slowly emerge, virus-style from a few transistor radios - then quickly across the first celebrating, the