Spend Christmas with Cliff, Jim White and maybe Victor

I’d like to start today by wishing a very happy Christmas to all Brentford fans and, indeed, any others who may be reading (you never know).

To be quite honest, I hadn’t even planned writing a column today until the stark realisation that I had forgotten to both clean the oven and dispose of Santa’s whisky / mince pie forced a somewhat premature rise.

To read the rest of this article, season 2014/15 is now available to download onto Kindle (and other electronic reading device) in full. Containing additional material and even some (poor) editing, you can get it here for less than the cost of a Griffin Park matchday programme or Balti Pie.

 Thanks for reading and all your comments over the course of the season. For now, I need to make more space on the site for any follow up. However, ‘close season’ will continue in full, further along.

It’s Christmas – I’m treating myself to the Tourjansky montage

Brentford have their very own ‘Tourjansky’ moment

I wrote last season about Victor Tourjansky, the scene stealing ‘extra’ from the James Bond movies.

For those who missed it, his signature move was to look bewilderedly at his drink as though inebriation could be the only explanation for the amazing feat he had just seen 007 pull off. An unsung hero of mine, he performed this routine in the three successive films (montage, below) running from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ to ‘For Your Eyes Only’.

Then, whilst digging out a picture of Roger Moore for

To read the rest of this article, season 2013/14 is now available to download onto Kindle, in full. Containing previously unseen content, you can do so here for less than the cost of one matchday programme.

 Thanks for reading over the course of the campaign. For now I need to make space on this page for any follow up.  The ‘close season’ / World Cup columns continue in full, further on in this site.