It’ll be a little while longer until our boys come back to Brentford. Denmark beat Wales 4-0 last night to reach a Euro 2020 quarter-final with Netherlands / Czech Republic. It was a game where we came for the goals and stayed for Robbie Savage’s indignant cries of, “That was not a….” every time a decision went against the Welsh. With the Bees connection of Matthias Jensen and Christian Norgaard combined and, of course, the universal outpouring of love for Christian Eriksen following his cardiac arrest in the Finland game, it felt about as un-neutral a neutral game as we’ve ever seen before. Even the stadium in Amsterdam was almost exclusively the preserve of the Danes and, in the end, it all proved too much. For Thomas Frank, longer to wait for his squad to return whilst let’s not forget Pontus is still with a Sweden team who don’t face Ukraine until Tuesday.
The arrival of the Brentford ‘two’ was greeted with the usual outpouring on social media. Matthias even getting an ‘assist’ late on although also demonstrating yet again (as if any further demonstration was even needed) the old mantra about corner kicks – “Don’t take it short. It never f*&king works” . Yet both fitted seamlessly into a Denmark side they are now an established part of on matchday and I can only expect more of the same next time out. No matter what it does to our domestic plans. Ah, the sweet price of successful recruitment strategy.
As has been well noted in recent times, we’ve more players in the tournament than Arsenal. With our opening Premier League fixture against the Gunners little more than six weeks away, the time for relaxing will be brief. At best.
But what to do in that time? Editor, bring forth the crowbar. Is there a finer way to spend a few hours than catching up on the events of last season? In reminding yourself just how Brentford reached the Premier League? In seeing just how deep our connection with the Denmark national side runs?
Well, yes, there are plenty of better ways than this but the annual Last Word season review is now available for download. A great story, albeit terribly told. And I know I bang on about this a lot but with all proceeds going to Rob Rowan’s Memorial Fund for CRY then console yourself in the fact that anybody generous enough to do so is helping an amazing cause. I can only thank those who have already downloaded one already. I mean, it’s literally one, but that’s a start. The link is here if you want to take a look. Thank you !
For those of you wanting a fix of optimism, I’ve seen these shirts for sale on ebay. As a self-confessed kit nerd there’s always an eye open to try and fill those last few gaps in the collection, no matter the cost (if anyone does have the Osca home variant where the stripes stop half way up……) but even I’d baulk at this. A combined price of £745…..!! Even the most expensive hospitality seat at Old Trafford is cheaper than that ! Eye watering stuff and, apparently, not a typo.
I love the Hummel kits. Up there with our very best and whilst these may claim to be in perfect, as good as new condition, those prices are beyond the wildest fantasies in terms of price. Surely?
Perhaps this is deemed realistic in the current market. Unlikley, but.. If so, it may well transpire that there are untapped reserves of gold at the back of your wardrobe. Get rummaging. If nothing else, until Kitman Bob is allowed to release our new shirts into the wild keeping half an eye on these will provide some temporary distraction. Even if a bid is out of the question.
Nick Bruzon
BrentfordFC 
Make an offer Nick…£75 for the two!
It was funny listening to Savage getting irate on tv, however, as a fan I have some sympathy. In the build up to the Danes 2nd goal there was a clear foul, Keefer Moore’s yellow card was farcical, it was clearly accidental and Harry Wilson’s petulant foul didn’t merit more than a yellow IMHO. As a club who’ve had more than their fair share of awful refereeing decisions going against us over the years, I would be rightly gutted by those key outcomes. Let’s hope the ref plays with a straight bat against Germany and then for us, Arsenal in the season opener in 6 weeks time.