Transformative 999-year deal is a massive moment in the history of the club and the violent cultural push-pull of London
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have in my hand several hundred pieces of paper. Dog-eared, scribbled with rewrites, and stained with sweat and ancient Bermondsey vinegar. But a wodge of paper that may just guarantee, finally, what passes for peace around here.
There was a moment at the Den on Saturday afternoon that carried its own strictly localised sense of history. An hour before kick-off in Millwall’s Premier League playoff-push game against Portsmouth, the key personnel gathered in a wedding-style lineup around the centre circle.
In the middle, close to where the door of the vanished missionary church once stood, were the Lions managing director, Mark Fairbrother, and the mayor of Lewisham, Brenda Dacres OBE.
