Midfielder can't wait to get stuck into Rafa's men - Echo

Liverpool Echo, 23 Sept 2004
Midfielder can't wait to get stuck into Rafa's men

PAUL IFILL admitted he "cannot wait" to take on Liverpool in the Carling
Cup after his Millwall side were drawn against the Barclays Premiership
giants in the third round of the competition.

The pacy forward marked his first start since the opening day of the season
with the final goal in last night's 3-1 win over Derby in the Coca-Cola
Championship, but he is already looking forward to the match against Rafael
Benitez's team.

Liverpool visit The Den in the week beginning on October 25 and Ifill said:
"I just can't wait for the match.

"It is the biggest game I will have played in except for last season's FA
Cup final against Manchester United, and it will be great to get some world
class players down here and get the crowd behind us.

"Hopefully we will get a sell-out and give them a game."

Millwall fans will be hoping that Ifill is still at the club when Liverpool
arrive in south London in a little more than a month's time.

The 24-year-old was the subject of a bid from fellow Championship club
Stoke this week, but Millwall are understood to have resisted the initial
approach.

Assistant boss Ray Wilkins believes the club needs to keep players like
Ifill if they are to mount a serious challenge for promotion, and Ifill
insists he has no desire to leave Millwall.

"I only found out about the bid after the game, and I don't know the amount
offered," Ifill continued.

"I am happy here, I am not looking to leave, but if they sell me there is
not much I can do about it."

Draw in full:
Portsmouth v Leeds
Chelsea v West Ham
Middlesbrough v Coventry
Doncaster v Nottingham Forest
Newcastle v Norwich
Millwall v Liverpool
Burnley v Aston Villa
Southampton v Colchester
Sheff Utd v Watford
Everton v Leicester/Preston
Charlton v Crystal Palace
Bolton v Tottenham
Bournemouth v Cardiff
Man City v Arsenal
Birmingham v Fulham
Crewe v Man Utd

Matches to be played week beginning October 25.