Sunday, January 27, 2019

It was an FA Cup tie that will be spoken about for some time to come. Five goals, a late winner to seal a shock victory and, at the end, a pitch invasion that served as a reminder that for all the knocks this competition has taken in recent years it still has the power to send people into a frenzy. They were dancing on the pitch as well as singing in the stands, and for Millwall there is another never-to-be-forgotten Premier League scalp to add to the others they have taken in this corner of south London.

Five successive top-flight sides have now been beaten at the Den in cup ties, three of them during Millwall’s run to the quarter-finals in 2017, but as Neil Harris said afterwards, his shirt drenched as a consequence of the post-match celebrations, none of those victories compared to this one.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2UiaUl9

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