LIONS ARE NET AMUSED BY ADE’S ANTICS

JAKE COOPER had the last laugh on Wycombe wind-up merchant Adebayo Akinfenwa after playing his part in a broken stanchion.

Millwall were 2-1 ahead when the defender’s incredible late 50-yard effort caught Ryan Allsop off his line before hitting the bar – with the home goalkeeper then clattering into the netting.

The game was delayed by five minutes as staff repaired it. And it was joker Akinfenwa, making his Championship debut after injury, who warned Lions players the match could then be abandoned under the laws of the game.

Cooper said: “I thought I’d scored. It took ages to come down. I thought it had a chance, but it wasn’t to be.

“We weren’t thinking it could be called off. But then Akinfenwa said, ‘Let’s abandon it and call it a draw’. We were hopeful that would not happen. Fortunately, they fixed the goal net, and got the game going again.”

Wycombe (Josh Knight tackling Millwall’s Murray Wallace above) had taken the lead in the ninth minute, with their first ever Championship goal, as Scott Kashket capitalised on a Bartosz Bialkowski howler.

But Jed Wallace levelled from the spot four minutes into the second half, after Jack Grimmer fouled Matt Smith. And the latter played his part in the Lions’ 63rd-minute winner, setting up Ryan Leonard.

Wycombe have lost all five games in the Championship, but manager Gareth Ainsworth said: “I’m very proud of them all. We will never give up and Akinfenwa will be a thorn in anyone’s side.” WYCOMBE: Allsop 6, Grimmer 6, Knight 6, Stewart 6, Jacobson 6, Wheeler 7, Thompson 6, Adeniran 7 (Mehmeti 79, 6), Onyedinma 5 (Horgan 66, 6), Kashket 7, Samuel 6 (Akinfenwa 64, 6)

MILLWALL: Bialkowski 4, Romeo 7, Hutchinson 7, Cooper 7, M Wallace 7, J Wallace 8, Woods 6, Leonard 7, Mahoney 6 (Ferguson 90),

Bradshaw 6 (Thompson 82),

Smith 7 (Pearce 90)