After two games of the 2014-15 season, Millwall sat joint top of the Championship after an impressive start to the campaign.

They may have only been two games in, but the way the Lions were playing under Ian Holloway and the opposition they beat early on caused an overly positive reaction that the London club might achieve something.

Millwall cruised to a convincing 2-0 win over Leeds United having played them off the pitch at The Den on the opening day thanks to goals from Mark Beevers and Shaun Williams.

Recently relegated Fulham were up next at Craven Cottage with Felix Magath in charge of the red-hot pre-season favourites for promotion.

Martyn Woolford notched the only goal of the game to leave 5,000 travelling Lions fans by the bank of the Thames in disbelief at their start to the season both in terms of results and performances.

After the two games, the reaction was confident that this could finally be Millwall’s year having moved into joint top position, narrowly behind Bournemouth on goal difference.

After the win over the former Premier League side, the Millwall fans reacted to their unprecedented start to the campaign.

But that joy was short-lived, the initial hype and anticipation to a positive set of results came to a crashing end with Holloway only picking up six more wins that year over the space eight months.

It was a spectacular crash after a successful start with the Lions failing to win in September, November and March.

A third of Millwall’s wins that season came in the opening month of the season and it was all downhill from there.

Holloway was eventually sacked after the 4-0 defeat at home to Norwich after hiding in the dugout for 90 minutes having taken abuse from the home fans the entire afternoon.

The damage was done when Neil Harris came in as interim boss, and the Lions were relegated, finishing 22nd, and five points off safety after a year that promised so much and a chance at the Premier League to end it being demoted to League One.

It just goes to show early season form counts for nothing if positive consistency is unable to be maintained over the campaign.

Delusions of grandeur gripped the Lions’ supporters, and their reactions were proven to be naive after a positive start descended into chaos and ultimately relegation.