NEXT HOME GAME - TBC
NEXT AWAY GAME - SUPPORTERS XI ARE PLAYING WORCESTER AT MALVERN ON SUNDAY AUGUST 3rd AT 3.00pm

Monday, January 26, 2009

Preview: Bulls vs Millwall

The Bulls entertain Millwall on Tuesday night in a League One match.

It will be nearly 32 years since the Lions last made the trip to Edgar Street for a League match, failing to win in both previous attempts. Their first trip to Edgar Street sticks out in the mind of Rob Powell, who remembers the FA Cup match of 1965: 'We beat them 1-0 if my memory serves me right, but what I do remember is being on the pitch celebrating with hundreds of other fans around the tunnel when a corner flag was thrown into the crowd like a javelin by a Millwall fan.'

The Bulls shock hammering of Oldham suggests anything is possible in this division. The reverse fixture, a single goal Millwall win, saw both sides reduced to ten men in a windswept match. The Bulls are likely to field six changes from that side, with three of those players - Randolph, N'Gotty, and Chadwick, all departed. Back then the Bulls were a shot-shy defensive minded team, but the use of the width of the Edgar Street pitch turned the League table on it's head last week - and it can be done again.

Millwall's home form is the reason they're up in the play-off spots. One home defeat all season is promotion form but they have been decidedly shaky away from their New Den home and their vociferous fans, conceding four goals at both Brighton and Oldham. Top scorer Tresor Kandol remains on loan at the club for two more days but has been displaced by fellow loanee Izale McLeod in the last two matches.

Hereford United vs Millwall, Edgar Street, Tuesday 27th January, 7.45pm.