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Posted on: Mon 16 Aug 2010

OK, the season may be just nine days old now - but three wins out of three, a place in the Carling Cup second round and sitting top of the table have made it a dream return to the Championship for The Lions.
Of course as the saying goes, the season is a marathon not a sprint - but Kenny Jackett's boys have certainly flown out of the traps and got off to a great start!
Here's how some of the papers viewed Saturday's 4-0 mauling of Hull City:

Daily Mirror
Mane man
Millwall striker Steve Morison is gunning to be the hottest property outside the top flight.
It has been a week to remember for the forward, 26, who was playing in the Conference for Stevenage just over a year ago.
Morison won his first cap for Wales last week in a 5-1 drubbing of Luxembourg, and blasted a brace against Hull to propel the Lions to the Championship's summit.
Morison, who fired Millwall to promotion with 23 goals last season, said: "I think people, especially at Millwall, expect me to score goals.
I've been lucky enough to get two early this year and I'm high on confidence.
I feel like I'm going to score every time I step onto the pitch.
I got my first taste of international football during the week and I thought I was going to score then too.
I've managed to score goals at every level I've played at so far. In fact, I've managed to score 20 goals everywhere I've played and that's what I'm looking to do again this season."
It is a fairy tale story for Morison who was still playing non-league football in 2009, desperate to get a breakthrough in the professional game.
Lions boss Kenny Jackett took a gamble on Morison and he is just grateful to be showing his potential on a bigger stage.
Morison added: "I've always believed in myself, but you need people to believe in you too and Kenny Jackett has been massive. A year ago I was worried about just playing in the League. So it was fantastic to get that chance and as long as I keep scoring goals and we keep winning, it's all good."
papers_hull_article2Morison was strongly linked with a move to Hull during the summer, but insists he has no intentions of quitting south London.
He added: "I'm doing my job at Millwall and I'm not looking to go anywhere. There's never been a second thought in my mind about where I was going to be. This is the only place."
One player certain to leave Hull is £5million-rated Jimmy Bullard, who was left out of the team once again.
The Tigers could have done with his presence as they were completely outplayed.
But Hull boss Nigel Pearson admits the situation is unlikely to change for their next game against Watford.
Pearson said: "Jimmy was not involved and we will see how the situation develops."
You would never have guessed two divisions separated these teams last season, but Hull's miserable away record continued and they have now gone 25 games without a win on their travels.
Morison stole the headlines with his deadly double, but the real hero was Lions winger James Henry who set up all four goals.
Millwall stormed into a three-goal lead as Morison found the net either side of a Kevin Lisbie header, before Liam Trotter completed the rout.

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The Guardian
Three years ago a wealthy American financier called John Berylson turned down invitations to invest in Liverpool and Leeds. Instead he ploughed money into Millwall. "It's much more fun, I think, to take something that's had its last breath and breathe life into it than the opposite," he reasoned at the time.
Millwall's breath certainly seemed ominously weak in March 2007. Because of boardroom bickering and failure on the pitch, the club had purged six managers in two years and were wobbling on the brink of relegation to League Two and financial collapse. Chestnut Hill Ventures, the consortium headed by Berylson, provided a £5m lifeline in a return for a minority stake in the club. Berylson has admitted he knew nothing about football and it was only the government's proposed regeneration of south London that made the investment seem attractive.
The urban overhaul has stalled, but Berylson now says he has fallen in love with the game. He has gradually increased the size of his holding in the club while bankrolling annual losses of around £4m. On the pitch, Millwall seem restored to rude health.
As Blackpool savour a sensational perch towards the top of the Premier League, Berylson can draw similar satisfaction from Millwall's surprising position at the top of the Championship, a feat that has been achieved under the management of Ian Holloway's former assistant at QPR, Kenny Jackett. Appointing Jackett in November 2007 has proved one of Berylson's best moves since taking charge. While leading Millwall up League One and eventually, last season, to promotion via the play-offs, Jackett has moulded a diligent, well-balanced side that, contrary to the club's historical reputation as ardent cloggers, play with a bit of panache to go with the passion demanded by their supporters, some 6,500 of whom have bought season tickets for this campaign, a year-on-year rise of 17%. Millwall's 4-0 victory yesterday over Premier League outcasts Hull was as emphatic as their trouncing of ambitious Bristol City in their opening match.
Berylson the financier must appreciate the way Jackett has optimised use of the modest transfer budget allocated to him. A feature of the side's style has been the terrific dribbling and crossing of the left-winger Danny Schofield, a 30-year-old signed from Yeovil in the summer after impressing while on loan at the New Den last season (sic). He was instrumental in the 3-0 win at Bristol City and thrived against Hull, although his performance was eclipsed by the right-winger, 21-year-old James Henry, another loanee-turned-permanent signing (from Reading), who created all four goals with deliveries that David Beckham could not have bettered.
One was met by a brilliant twisting header from Kevin Lisbie, who was making his home debut having joined on loan from Ipswich, and another was turned into the net by Liam Trotter, who arrived during the summer having been judged surplus by Roy Keane at Ipswich. Henry created scoring opportunities virtually every time he received the ball, and if all of them had been taken Millwall would have beaten Hull by at least double the eventual four-goal margin. As it transpired, The two other Henry-hewn chances that were converted were done so by Steve Morison, the striker who is perhaps the most apposite symbol of the club's rise.
papers_hull_articleMorison turns 27 next week and his chances of making a big mark on football seemed remote just one year ago, when he was playing for then non-league Stevenage. After being spotted and signed by Jackett, the striker hit 23 goals in League One. On Saturday, against players who were in the Premier League just a few months ago, his strength, elusive movement and instinctive predatory skills were a constant menace, even after Nigel Pearson rejigged Hull's defence in a bid to contain him, substituting the right-back Nobby Solano in only the 35th minute. Morison's first goals in the Championship came three days after he made his international debut for Wales against Luxembourg.
"People asked me afterwards if looking back a year it was a dream to play for Wales and I said 'not really because I'd never even dreamt it'," the striker said. "A year ago I was just worried about playing league football."
While Jackett downplays the significance of the club's promising start, insisting that "after a dozen games we'll have a better indication of what we can do in this league", and Berylson talks of a season of "consolidation", Morison sees no reason why he and the club cannot continue their ascent. He does not rule out promotion to the Premier League. "We're a fantastic team and we work our nuts off for each other," he says. "Yes, the players we are coming up against [in the Championship] are good, but you have to step up and we're proving that we can do that and possibly that we're better than some of these players. They're only other players at the end of the day, we are all human so promotion is not an impossibility. I've got no limit to how high I can go."

The Sun
King Henry
A rumour that England Under-21 boss Stuart Pearce was at The Den fired up James Henry to destroy Hull.
The 21-year-old Lions midfielder created all four goals to embarrass the former Premier League side.
Henry said: "Someone told me just before the kick-off he was here. It was a great opportunity for me to show what I can do. I hope he liked what he saw!"
England legend Psycho would have found it hard not to have been impressed by Henry's man-of-the-match display.
Henry finally joined Millwall in a permanent move from Reading in July after two loan spells in 2009.
And he pushed for a Young Lions call-up by creating two goals for the prolific Steve Morison and one each for summer signings Kevin Lisbie and Liam Trotter.
Morison, 26, who earned his own international debut for Wales against Luxembourg in the week, summed up the promoted Londoners' attitude to their new challenge in the Championship.
He said: "It is a tough league but I don't fear any team in this division.
"I've managed to score at every level I've played in and I was confident I could do it this season, especially with our fantastic crowd.
"Playing in front of 10,000 people here is like playing in front of 30,000 elsewhere.
Morison, a reported £600,000 target for Hull, scored with two headers from Henry crosses.
The striker added: "I have been linked with transfers for the last four years while I was at Stevenage and it is all talk as far as I am concerned.
"I am where I want to be. Not only are Millwall a hard-working side but we also have quality and class."
Lions manager Kenny Jackett, who received a standing ovation from the 13,292-strong crowd, was more cautious and said: "Let's give it a dozen games and then have a look at it."
But after a second clean sheet, seven goals in two league games, another two in the Carling Cup win over Wycombe and top spot in the table, it looks like the Lions will not be in the trouble many critics predicted.
That fate looks more likely to befall struggling Hull.
The Tigers were unable to respond and, indeed, their best three players all came off the bench with Paul McShane the pick of the bunch after replacing Nobby Solano in the 35th minute.
Hull created little as they kept running up against the midfield pair of Jimmy Abdou and Trotter.
Jackett added: "They are important players but it is something which goes right through the team with the back four keeping clean sheets and the forwards scoring. As a group, we are very settled."
McShane put in a great shift for Hull and caused more problems than the highly-rated John Bostock - on loan from Tottenham - who looked lightweight against the Lions' no-nonsense defence.
But the visitors' midfield lacked creativity with skipper Ian Ashbee looking well off the pace.
Ashbee did find time to argue with Kevin Kilbane after a poor pass and equally poor control.
Their only consolation on a bad day was that it could have been far worse than just the four goals.

Yorkshire Post
Hull manager Nigel Pearson warned his side to forget the heartbreak of relegation last season after they were thrashed at Millwall.
The Tigers endured a miserable afternoon at The New Den as Kenny Jackett's side ran riot with two goals from Steve Morison and further strikes from Kevin Lisbie and Liam Trotter.
Pearson had no complaints about the result and urged his players to move on quickly from the disappointment of dropping out of the Premier League.
Pearson said: "I think I've got to just take that on the chin. There were some things today that were very frustrating but I'm not going to take anything away from Millwall. I thought they were excellent.
I've seen all the goals and there's certain passages of play I'm very disappointed with but its something we'll put right.
To give yourself a chance of getting anything out of any game then you need to do the basics right and we didn't. I'm a realist and I know there's a lot of work to be done here.
If there's a hangover from last season then we need to get over that quickly and put it behind us. But the fashion of the defeat was the most disappointing thing for us."
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