Marked for Barry Bannan
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Millwall this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Barry Bannan
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jake Cooper falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.94. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Millwall
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Millwall are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and George Evans reports back to Millwall with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Millwall training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alfie Doughty is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Barry Bannan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Derby County, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tristan Crama, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Millwall say no — this time
The offer from Burton Albion for Ra'ees Bangura-Williams was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market7 Sep 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Gabriel Novaes wants continental football; whether Millwall can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Barry Bannan in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Millwall this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Millwall training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Casper De Norre is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dan Potts
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Millwall will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Ipswich Town will be the happier side with the point.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Millwall this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Éverton dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Millwall will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Barry Bannan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Barry Bannan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.