So, here we are again.

For the fifth time in eight years, Millwall will be playing at the home of English football in a major knock-out competition. Impressive for a team which operates on a shoestring budget and averages 9,000 punters every other Saturday. Come May 20, that number will have drastically increased as Lions fans and friends-of-fans descend upon Wembley Way.

Ironic then that my first outing of the season on this blog coincides with the League One Play-Off Final. Bloody fair weather fan! I wish.

The once-a-season brigade will dine out on the success of the team’s efforts over 48 games, bedecked in jester hats and matching foam fingers. Some of those in attendance may question Tony Adbou’s inclusion in the squad and question why Byron Morison hasn’t been given the captain’s armband.

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Millwall fans at Wembley last year

I say all this with tongue in cheek, but I do recall overhearing a chap a few seats along from me at last year’s defeat to Barnsley, realising five minutes into the second half that goalkeeper David Forde was, in fact, Jordan Archer. An easy mistake to make I suppose…

Joking aside, family commitments, work, logistics and finances keep some fans from attending regularly. All I’m saying is some of us have had to put up with all sorts this season!

At one stage, automatic promotion looked a certainty. Then we were bad, then worse, then ok-ish and then quite good again. Harris in, Harris out, Harris back in again. Sandwiched between the regular season, a trio of Premier League scalps in the FA Cup culminated in a glorious last-gasp victory over last season’s title winners Leicester City. The indignity of that defeat ultimately cost the nation’s favourite Italian Claudio Ranieri his job. Dilly-ding. Dilly-gone.

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Millwall boss Neil Harris

And if all that wasn't enough, Britain's most notorious football club then went and won the EFL’s Family Club of the Year. Whodathoughtit?!

Yes, when we’re not rampaging through provincial towns across England or pushing elderly folk into oncoming traffic, we as a club do some pretty incredible work with the area’s young and vulnerable people. Of course, social media was awash with bewildered fans from other clubs asking how on earth this travesty had been allowed. No One Likes Us? Of course they don’t.

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So having tripped, stumbled and stuttered our way into the play-off reckoning, it’s Bradford City who stand in the way of a return to the Championship. The Bantams have been in and around the top six all season and will pose a strong test.

Last season’s semi-final victory over the Yorkshire side will have no bearing on what occurs on Saturday. And there’s also no way of knowing which Millwall team will turn up. In truth, the players have gone from unmitigated failures to glorious heroes several times this season. Whatever transpires, at least we know following the Lions is never dull.

Strap yourselves in.