Kenny Jackett says it was the right time to leave Millwall when he did after almost six years in charge at The Den.

The former Lions boss returns to his old club this weekend with Wolves for the first time since his exit last summer.

Jackett prevented Millwall from dropping into League Two during his first season in charge and went on to lead the club to two League One play-off finals, promotion to the Championship and an FA Cup semi-final.

That April 2013 Wembley encounter with Wigan was overshadowed by Millwall fans fighting with each other in the stands, although Jackett denied that – or the club’s more general negative portrayal in the national media – had led to his decision to move on.

He told expressandstar.com: “No, it wasn’t a factor.

“The board of directors who are still all there from when I was there, are really good people.

“They would meet it head on with you.

“It’s American-owned – the chairman is an American businessman, but the board contains people who are lifelong Millwall supporters as well, and they had been there and done it and they would go through everything with you.

“In terms of leaving, it was the right decision to leave after that time, and leave in the summer when they had all of the summer to regroup and go again.

“Every job has its different sides but I didn’t think there it took any extra special toll because it was Millwall or that made it anything different.

“Actually inside the club people look after you very well – they look after the players, the staff and the manager.

“I don’t know whether it’s the public perception or that what people always say about Millwall, but internally it’s a really good club to work for.

“And if you’re ever looking for ‘us against the world’, that’s it.”

Jackett was initially replaced by Steve Lomas, but a disastrous string of results saw the former West Ham captain replaced in the hotseat by Ian Holloway.

The duo worked together at QPR and the current Wolves boss admitted he is a big fan of his current Millwall counterpart.

Jackett explained: “I have a lot of respect for the manager who is probably one of the most experienced English managers around.

“He’s been doing it for a long while and he’s been doing it successfully as well.

“The people at Millwall treat you very well and back you very well, and they did me.

“They’re things I said to Ian when he was considering taking the job.

“The perception from the outside is quite a tough one but it’s there.

“But the most important thing is internally, day to day and the people at the club treat you very well.

“And being the manager there with that type of backing is a really good thing.

“But I’m just generally looking forward to the game and I haven’t got too many thoughts on the fact that it’s my old club.

“We move on and we want to play well.”

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