Jake Cooper

Central Defender - Millwall
28 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Jake Cooper

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The Millwall Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cup progress for Millwall

A 2‑0 win over Bromley, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Both of them Derek Mazou-Sacko's — 8.05

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.05, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Thierno Ballo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Millwall

Tristan Crama 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Derek Mazou-Sacko

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

No hiding place for Billy Mitchell

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Billy Mitchell, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Millwall training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jake Cooper 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Millwall

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Femi Azeez

A mark of 7.40, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

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The Millwall Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Millwall turn down Charlotte Football Club for Macaulay Langstaff

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tristan Crama 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Millwall

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match

Camiel Neghli sends Millwall past Portsmouth

It finished 2‑1, and it was Camiel Neghli’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Millwall.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Anthony Patterson

“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.

Market

John Richardson steps up from the Millwall academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. John Richardson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Paul Shaw joins the Millwall first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paul Shaw is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Jack Martin joins the Millwall first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jack Martin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Player ratings

Femi Azeez in the eights

A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

  • Player ratings Gabriel Novaes runs at them all day
  • Squad Jake Cooper falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Millwall