The most recent meeting between these sides was remembered for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n
Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts was sent off after eight minutes for a head-height challenge on Jean-Philippe Mateta that left the Palace striker requiring 25 stitches.<\/p>\n
Eagles chairman Steve Parish called the tackle “the most reckless challenge on a football field”<\/a> he had ever seen when speaking to BBC One at half-time of the FA Cup fifth-round match in March.<\/p>\n The Premier League side went on to win the game 3-1,<\/a> ticking off the third step on their way to an historic first FA Cup win.<\/a><\/p>\n Roberts’ automatic three-match ban was extended to six games and Millwall put out a statement in defence of their player after he received online abuse despite Mateta publicly accepting his apology.<\/a><\/p>\n The Lions were also subsequently fined \u00a315,000 for homophobic chants aimed at Ben Chilwell,<\/a> who was playing in the Palace team while on loan from Chelsea.<\/p>\n It was Roberts’ final appearance for Millwall and he joined Mansfield Town in the summer.<\/p>\n “Roberts’ challenge was very ill-judged, but there was no intent,” says Achtung! Millwall p, external<\/a>odcast, external<\/a> host Nick Hart.<\/p>\n “The whole media, FA and Palace furore came down hard on a decent player, who went out of his way to make amends to Mateta.<\/p>\n “And fair play to JP Mateta, he accepted Roberts’ apology as being ‘football’. No malice.<\/p>\n “It is no coincidence that Liam felt obliged to leave Millwall in the wake of his personal and familial online haranguing.”<\/p>\n Hart added: “I think the travelling Lions fans will be reminding Parish of all of these points on Tuesday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most recent meeting between these sides was remembered for all the wrong reasons. Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-427410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115210810264161208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427410","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=427410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}