Goal hungry Millwall hope to build on exciting start to season at Bradford tomorrow.

The Lions ' impressive 3-1 victory over Birmingham in midweek moved them into fourth place in the Second Division at the head of a pack of clubs on 7 points.

Manager John Docherty is expected to stick with the side that smashed Birmingham's unbeaten record in such convincing style, although full back Nicky Coleman could come back into the reckoning.

Coleman, who has been plagued by a hamstring injury, turned out for Millwall's reserves against Watford in midweek, and is close to full fitness.

That match also marked Kevin O'Callaghan's first appearance in a Millwall shirt, since his arrival from Portsmouth in the summer for £80,000.

Kevin O 'Callaghan will pull on a Millwall shirt for the fast time this afternoon - and that's good news for injury plagued Lions manager John Docherty.

O 'Callaghan, an £80,000 signing from Portsmouth, was forced to sit out all Millwall's pre-season preparations after picking up first a stomach strain and then a hamstring injury.

But the 24-year-old midfielder resumed training at the end of last week and gets his first work out when Millwall Reserves take on Watford at the Den.

"Kevin has done very well during training, but he has missed a lot of work and early to say how long it will be before I can consider him for the first team," said Docherty.

"I was really excited about coming back to Millwall, so picking up an injury on the first day of pre-season training was very disappointing he said.

"It means I've had to miss all the pre-season work, in fact I haven't been able to do any serious training since the end of last season when I played for Eire against Brazil.

Nicky Coleman and Michael Marks, Millwall’s other long-term injury victim are also to play again but skipper Alan Mcleary and midfielder Dave Mehmet are still some way from full fitness.

 To those fans who dreaded a trip to the South London club because of its association with hooliganism, this may seem inconceivable. But the men who run Millwall are determined to change its image and attract a new clientele.

Traditionally the home of London's dockers, The Den has undergone a massive facelift and the club is working flat out to become an integral part of the London Docklands Development.

Chairman Reg Burr explained: "We used to attract dock workers but they've gone; the whole working community has gone. Now we attract people from outside the area, Kent, Surrey and parts of London. Yet we have 650,000 people living within a quarter-of-a-mile of the ground. 

The problem is that very few of them are football fans. But we are closest club to the new dockland development area and I can see a time when we will be what Chelsea and Fulham were to London football in the 1950s and 60s, the club where the young, upwardly mobile fraternity want to be seen.

"We have worked very hard to clean this up place, It has been a formidable taskbecause you cannot undo 40 years of neglect in one go. But we have quality and experience at the helm in manager John Docherty and his colleague, Frank McLintock."

Millwall's chief executive Graham Hortop (right), said the club has spent more than £300,000 on ground safety and increasing the capacity from 16,000 to 19,000.

He said "We know the docklands is the coming area in London and in London and we are determined to play our part in that community. We were sponsored by  the London Docklands Development Corporation last season and were negotiating a similar deal now.

We’ve also agreed a sponsorship deal with the council, worth £70,000 a year over four years.

"We want our fans to be aware of what's been done, be proud of the Club and its ambition."

It's all very well changing the image, but success on the field is vital, and Hortop stresses the £650,000 the club has spent on players like Kevin O'Callaghan, Steve Wood, George Lawrence and striker Tony Cascarino.

but Millwall found themselves further
behind in the 53rd minute when Futcher
beat Horne fromthe penalty spot after he
had been upended by Keith Stevens.

Hurlock powered through two challenge
to give Millwall a glimmer of hope in the
65th minute and there were certainly some
anxious moments for Bradford as the Lions
at last roared into life Teddy Sheringham
missed a couple of half chances before
Futcher put the outcome beyond doubt -
knocking home a low Mark Ellis cross.

"The players are still bedding in,"
explained Docherty, "but we never really
managed to reach the sort of standard
we set against Birmingham.” 

RATINGS: Horne ****, Stevens ***,
Sparham ****, Hurlock *****, Walker ****,
Wood ***, Lawrence ***, Briley **,
Sheringham **, Cascarino ***, Salman ***,
Subs: Morgan, Byrne

IT was a case of too little, too late for John
Docherty's new-look Millwall side at Bradford
on Saturday.

The Lions didn't ready start playing until they
were two goals down and after Terry Hurlock
had given them a glimmer of hope it looked
as thorough they might just escape with a point.

But Ron Futcher shattered those hopes with
his second goal a minute from the end and
Millwall were left bemoaning a couple of
missed chances and a penalty appeal that
was waved aside.

"We should have had a penalty when Danis
Salman was fouled, but we are not going to
cry about that - it just seems as though we
can't take our chances as well away from
home."

Ian Palin left Millwall facing an uphill
struggle when he put Bradford in front after
only 12 minutes, but solid work by Steve
Wood, Alan Walker, Sean Sparham and Brian
Horne kept the Lions in with a shout.

Hurlock turned in another powerhouse display
in midfield, but Tony Cascarino had trouble
escaping the attentions of Gavin Oliver and
Teddy Sheringham had one of those
afternoons when nothing went right.