If two long trips to the darkest corners of the South-East weren’t enough to erase your enthusiasm for away trips then let’s have three cheers for the fixture computer for making it a quick-fire hat-trick. Yes folks Millwall away, for the discerning drinker/away fan about as edifying as a bucket of jellied eels.

Before I incur some kind of Bermondsey fatwa for slagging the place off, Millwall away and in particular the New Den probably isn’t that bad to be honest. Apart for the odd coin wielding Burberry clad numbty you can get anywhere, for a low profile fixture like ours the atmosphere borders on relaxed. That said although I wouldn’t recommend swanning around the local boozer with a replica top on, but the chances are anyone remotely resembling an away fan will be ushered into the ground for overpriced lager and pre-match tele under the stand.

If you do escape into the outside world said local comes in the form of The Golden Lion, which on my last visit was on a par with many other match-day pubs in roughish areas when Walsall are in town, bog standard plastic beer in plastic glasses and an air of dormant tribalism.

Of course the major advantage of Millwall is that it’s highly adjacent to central London, just five minutes on the train to London Bridge where there is basically something for everyone in a typical London kind of way. All Bar One provides the best sanitised chain option, The Banana Store represents novelty idea that didn’t quite work in reality, and the area around or heading down Borough High Street reveals several more traditional pubs such as: The Bunch Of Grapes for bijou and Young’s ales; The George if you want to sit outside and top up your tan from Gillingham away; or, (recommended) The Market Porter just of Southwark St. for Real Ale and upstairs restaurant.

Just on a completely selfish note…. roll on Hartlepool!!