Harris Feels Privileged To Lead Millwall

Millwall manager Neil Harris says he feels privileged to have led the club to the League One play-off final at Wembley.

Millwall reached the final after a 1-1 draw at home to Bradford on Friday night meant they progressed to face Barnsley at Wembley on 29 May with a 4-2 aggregate win.

The Bantams' hopes of turning around a first-leg 3-1 deficit were dealt an early blow at The Den when Lee Gregory fired home for the hosts.

Bradford did reduce the deficit back to two goals just before the break through Jamie Proctor, but they never really looked capable of staging a fightback.

Harris was part of the Millwall team that won promotion through to the play-offs in 2010 at Wembley against Swindon and he is relishing the prospect of leading the team out as manager there six years on.

"It will be a privilege and an honour to represent the club as manager at Wembley, but the biggest privilege is to manage the players," he said.

"I made a promise to my dressing room at the start of the season that if tactically, technically and attitude-wise they followed my lead, I'd make them a good Millwall team. I'm pleased I've delivered that promise today.

"Wembley is the best place to play your football. For the players that haven't played there, it's a privilege to play at the home of English football. But it's only a really good day if you win. We've come a long way in a short space of time but we've not won anything yet."

Meanwhile, Bradford boss Phil Parkinson felt substitute Tom Thorpe should have been awarded a penalty when he was pulled down, and was unimpressed with referee Tim Robinson.

"The damage was done in the first leg," he said. "We gave everything we could tonight against a good side, but things have conspired against us in this play-off run.

"I thought we should have had a penalty. They tell me this referee is heading for the Premier League, but I felt he let the crowd influence him tonight."