Turn it up to 11 and let’s see what happens….

There’ll be more than a few eyes (or ears, as many Brentford fans will be in transit to MK Dons) on the lunchtime kick off between Leyton Orient and Wolves today.

Whilst I’m not sure if it is still politically correct to talk about the ‘fat lady’, I can’t hear any females, corpulent or otherwise, singing just yet. Saint and Greavsie may be firing up a trophy-laden helicopter as we speak and pointing it towards Wolverhampton, but in my eyes the title race is still open.

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Liverpool good. Peterborough better. Brentford best

Calmed down yet? Me neither. I still can’t believe that Brentford have done it after all the years of coming SO close.

Second to Birmingham City when only one team went up. Double play-off heartbreak under Martin Allen. Any play off, for that matter. Even last season when Keith Stroud nobbling Tony Craig cost us three points at an excellent Sheffield United side. Oh, and then the small matter of ‘the other thing’ against Doncaster Rovers.

As somebody who has been coming to Griffin Park since the end of the 70s, I’m probably as experienced as anyone to appreciate those rare moments of joy. That’s close to 35 years where the ecstasy has been outweighed by, if not the heartbreak, then certainly an awfully large portion of mediocrity.

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Is this next season’s club badge? And an IMPORTANT request

Nice one, Chelsea. An odd way to start a Brentford column but their victory over (and at) Manchester City last night means that The Bees, once again, are the clear form team in England.  Whilst there are enough permutations to extrapolate this further across Europe, to be honest I’m starting to lose track.

However, their home defeat (sorry, Bliss) means City now have a little red box next to their name on the BBC table whilst we, as part of an 18 match unbeaten run, are on 30 points out of 30 in the League from games played at Griffin Park.

Still, the one thing that is certain in football is that nothing is certain.

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.