After a day where the majority of the footballing world were talking about Fat Sam leaving the England job ‘by mutual consent’ (definitely not sacked. Just to be clear. Not. Sacked) one would imagine that outside of TW8, Brentford thumping Reading 4-1 will quite likely be low on most people’s topics of discussion this morning. Which is a massive shame because the victory, which saw the Bees rise above the likes of Newcastle United to fourth place in the Championship table, was one to savour.
Even now (Wednesday morning, 6 a.m.), I’m speechless. The questions going in to the game were how would Dean Smith rebuild his midfield whilst, at the same time, countering the perceived attacking threat from a supposedly rejuvenated John Swift? Didn’t they get answered in some style?
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Reading’s lurid kit was about as awkward as it got for Brentford
View from the terrace – Annette Curran grabbed this one of Daniel doing his thing
Maybe a slightly more modest restaurant these days
Nick Bruzon
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