Fter Raggett pips Millwall

On an afternoon of torrential rain, manager Paul Warne said: “I thought it was a real football game in Yorkshire. The weather has changed and it feels like the football season is finally here.

“Both teams are good on setpieces, and it was a really enjoyable game. It would have been more enjoyable if we’d have scored a second but I am really proud of the team.”

Smith’s second-half chance came after his superb chest-down set Kyle Vassell free and he returned the ball to Smith, whose low effort from 10 yards was saved by Jordan Archer. Millwall had chances to level, but Tom Elliott’s low shot was saved by the feet of Marek Rodak, while £1million striker Tom Bradshaw, making his debut after his move from Barnsley, headed over.

Jed Wallace was Millwall’s biggest threat and he came closest to equalising in the final 10 minutes. The midfielder unleashed a wicked drive that flew inches wide of Rodak’s post. Neil Harris, the Millwall manager, was left to rue an- other disappointing visit to South Yorkshire after the defeat at Sheffield Wednesday in midweek.

“Rotherham did nowhere near enough to win,” Harris said. “That’s twice in five days we have thrown points away. You know you have to be strong from dead-balls and for the majority of it we were. One moment we get it wrong, the ball ends up in the back of the net.”

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Subs Booked Referee Graeme Souness was in gloriously cantankerous form yesterday, and “wasn’t having” that Maurizio Sarri’s style was anything new. “I’m not buying Sarri-ball, there’s nothing new about pressing high and playing one and two-touch football. Going back to when I played, that’s what we did,” he said on

Souness then threw a considerable stone from his enormous glasshouse when criticising Etienne Capoue for a tackle with “real malice” behind it.