Can Bees beat Slade to Christmas number one?

Brentford travel to Cardiff City today knowing that a win and the usually unreliable ‘other results going in our favour’ could see us joint top of the Championship table on Christmas day. It is a game most fans have been looking forward to for months and, moreso, because it gives us a chance to renew acquaintances with Russell Slade.

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.

Can Brentford save Christmas for one numpty?

Brentford entertain Ipswich Town on Boxing Day and the great news coming out of the club yesterday was that the game is practically sold out already. The terrace, the paddock and many blocks on both sides are already full as we prepare for the return of Jay Tabb and his high flying team mates.

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.

4-1 defeat? Move along, nothing to see here.

Have you bothered to watch the highlights (and I use the phrase in the loosest sense) this morning of Brentford succumbing 4-1 to Colchester United? Whether it was simply a case of an already promoted team having mentally ‘switched off’ (indeed, Wolves also conceded a late o.g. to be held at Coventry, in Northampton) or the Bees being outplayed by a team staring down the barrel of relegation, Warbs was making no excuses afterwards.

It was, what he later told the BBC, our “Worst performance of the season….by a long shot”.

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.

Bees in search of that magical 97 (with one aiming for 500)

Brentford travel to Colchester United on Saturday with only a week remaining of our season. And what a season it has been with promotion from League One already assured and, but for the phenomenal points total achieved by Wolves, we’d have likely been Champions, too.

I was saying last night to my friend Colin Campbell, whom I name check as a cheap excuse to drag out his file photograph (below) what a relentless force the Bees have been this campaign. To already be 7 points ahead of last season’s winners is a stunning performance. And moreso given that we did have a slower than anticipated start.

Campbell – needs a new file photo

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.