Saturday can’t come soon enough. Brentford have a home game with Sheffield Wednesday and already it seems like an eternity since that 1-0 defeat on the road at the weekend. There was little to update fans with yesterday – no surprise being a Monday – and we aren’t involved in League Cup action this week following the capitulation against Exeter City. Fortunately, a video has started doing the rounds from the West Ham v Bournemouth game on Sunday to keep us entertained.
Bournemouth are, to some , the romantic team who punched against the big guns to surprise all comers during their first Premier League campaign last season. To others, the side who overspent well beyond their means as they got promoted from the Championship in 2014/15 at the expense of Brentford and the rest. Whilst we may have ended up on the moral high ground, along with a fine Mark Warburton inspired 3-1 victory under our belts last year (Feb 2015), they are the ones who embarked on that huge TOTL (top of the league) run before eventual success.
I do miss our games with Bournemouth
As for West Ham, you may not have realised this but apparently they moved stadium over the summer. If only somebody had mentioned it. Just once, to give us a clue that a move was imminent.
Ironically, despite all the planning, it seems their new home is still not ready. Certainly, if the photos doing the rounds on Sunday are anything to go by where it seems season ticket holders turned up to find their seat had no actual, erm, seat.
This, of course, is already old news. Such is the speed at which the Internet moves that the picture has already had close to three and half thousand shares on Twitter. Fairplay to West Ham supporter ‘Paul’ who wouldn’t give The Sun permission to use it, instead allowing his club the chance to respond first.
It has been a time of huge celebration for West Ham. We’ve already had the first friendly in their new stadium, the first European game there and the first Premier league game/goal/win. No doubt we’ve still got the first league game under lights and the first FA Cup game to come.
I can only imagine the latter will be a huge occasion given as, seemingly, they won the competition back in 1980. Like their new home and 1966 World Cup triumph, something else that never gets mentioned in journalistic circles. For all you pub quiz fas out there, Trevor Brooking grabbed the winner I believe. Store that one away – it’ll come in handy.
Personally, I’m looking forward to the first game when their new stadium isn’t mentioned. Experts predict that could come as soon as February 2017. In the short term, the media love in with the Hammers continues. Sunday sees their third Premier League game in a row televised.
But it was the weekend encounter with Bournemouth (now BOTL), West Ham’s first televised league game at 4pm on a Sunday afternoon against a team whose name begins with B in their new Stadium, that provides the pick of the action.
Only 792 people have seen this, at the time of writing, but there’s no place to hide in a modern stadium. TV cameras everywhere and moreso in a televised game. As this Bournemouth fan discovered…
A Bournemouth supporter caught green handed
From all this, let’s hope Brentford learn at least two lessons for Lionel Road.
Given the amount of work already poured into the design I can’t for one second imagine we’ll face similar issues. Yet, if nothing else, it does make you realise that even the most basic elements can, sometimes, be overlooked.
Whilst adequate seating is a priority, let’s not forget about the catering either.
Lionel Road. Let’s get the seats and food right
Nick Bruzon
BrentfordFC 
I guess Sky could have billed it as ‘first game against a seaside resort’ ‘first game against a team from Dorset’ or ‘first game against a team that sounds like a lady part’
I did hear that West Ham wanted the game moved to Muff as they knew their ground would not be ready, rather like Liverpool’s game Saturday being switched to Turf Moor. Unfortunately for the Hammers, the weekend they were playing AFCB was a weekend when Dorset Police will not allow the Cherries to play at home under any circumstances as it was the weekend of the Bournemouth Air Festival. A weekend when we usually play away and I have to try and listen to Mark Burridge against a display by the Red Arrows. Although most of the planes sound like drunken mosquitos.
I also think I know who the now mucus free Cherries fan is as well! Will ask his best mate to confirm!
Intriguing . A chance to get to the bottom of the nasal who dunnit? Good luck