Anyone who has seen the episode of ‘The Simpsons’ where Bart’s school appoints an ex-army PE teacher, will know how it felt to be in the away end at Bramall Lane for the second half at the weekend.<\/b><\/p>\n
The drill instructor teacher sets up a gymnasium game involving throwing footballs at the kids from close range, all whilst shouting ‘Bombardment! Bombardment!’<\/p>\n
So it felt on Saturday\u2026<\/p>\n
An excellently taken first-half goal by the much improved Luke Cundle made for a tense second period, in which the Lions had to withstand at lot of possession and a number of near-miss opportunities for the Blades.<\/p>\n
In particular, Steven Benda had to perform a series of top class saves in the Millwall goal to keep us in the game, whilst a couple of goalline clearances, combined with the assistance of an extra coat of paint on the goalpost, brought home the three points.<\/p>\n
Millwall is a football club that attracts many stereotypes, but perhaps one of the more surprising ones being that we’re often better playing away from home, rather than at The Den.<\/p>\n
Soaking up the pressure and preserving a slender one-goal lead might well be the way to advance up the league table, but it certainly makes for edge-of-your-seat viewing.<\/p>\n
Three games into the 2025-26 season and our only loss came at John Berylson Way, whilst our two wins have both come on the road – including Saturday’s magnificent victory at Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n
Bombardment! Bombardment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone who has seen the episode of ‘The Simpsons’ where Bart’s school appoints an ex-army PE teacher, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-372213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115089231772100653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}