Lukas Jensen the shootout hero for Millwall at QPRKyle Walker hits winner in Burnley shootout victoryAlex Neil felt Lukas Jensen deserved his moment of glory after the fit-again goalkeeper saved all four QPR penalties to take Millwall through to the second round of the Carabao Cup.After a 1-1 draw, with a late Mark Sykes own goal bringing Rangers level after Luke Cundle’s opener, Millwall won 2-0 in a shootout which included six missed spot-kicks. Jensen, back after a long injury lay-off, kept out penalties from Ilias Chair, Harvey Vale, Koki Saito and Kwame Poku. Continue reading...
⚽ West Ham come from behind to see off Pompey⚽ Kyle Walker seals shootout win for Burnley⚽ Millwall keeper Lukas Jensen saves all four QPR spot-kicksQPR 0-0 Millwall. There’s not a lot going on at Loftus Road in today’s only 2pm kick-off. Rangers have had most of the ball, Millwall have just had their first (off-target) shot at goal, and that’s it.Pre-main-flurry-of-matches postbag. “How is there football already?” splutters Kári Tulinius. “Doesn’t it ever stop? Someone should campaign to stop football.” An admirable idea, though if we’re heading down that road, wouldn’t there first need to be a campaign to re-start the Fiver? And nobody’s going to agitate for that, are they. Continue reading...
A new book details the footballer’s Ashington upbringing, his shyness and the work ethic that set him apartOf all the footballers who have worn the black and white, that possessive geordie pronoun “Wor” (our) was unique to Jackie Milburn; for he was a man of the people as much as he was a great sportsman. In that respect, his birthplace of Ashington in Northumberland only added to the mythology.“The biggest pit village in the world,” as it was known, was the north-east in microcosm – a one-horse coal town where miles of identical terraced houses spread out from the pitheads and the menfolk were obsessed by whippets, leeks, association football and pints in the club. Nevertheless, he had a self-discipline that saw the pitfalls of alcohol: “Certainly it prevented my dad, Alec Milburn, from making the big time,” Jackie recalled. “He could have gone to Tottenham but preferred to stay home and drink his ale.” Continue reading...
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