‘It wasn’t the time for Joe but he’s got great future’

George Saville on the Lions' manager moves
By Chris Dunlavy

It would be easy, at this point, to stick the boot into Joe Edwards, the blink-and-you’ll miss-him Millwall manager who spent so much of his 19-game tenure denying that the Lions were in a relegation battle that he was sacked before he actually got the chance to contest one.
Appointed in November, Edwards’ arrival was supposed to signal a progressive stylistic shift from the safety-first football that had garnered successive top-half finishes under predecessor Gary Rowett.
Eleven defeats later, Millwall were staring at life in Le...

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