Leicester City – Brentford. Post match debrief and player ratings.

Here we are again. Brentford travelled to Leicester City yesterday and came away with a hard fought point. A top, top second half-performance seeing The Bees’ bogey team hit the buffers. Goals from Ivan Toney and Josh Dasilva rounding off a comeback that, at times, looked questionable. With Manchester United next up on Saturday, the stage is well set following their own hiccups at Old Trafford.

As ever at this point, it’s tine for the post match review. What were the highs for Brentford? And the lows? Who shone agasint Leicester City and who is a shoe in for the visit of United? Most importantly, who is our first ‘star man’ of the season.

And as ever, the answers are here……

2022-23 Brentford Player Ratings – Matchweek 1

Nick Bruzon

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Don’t give in to the Dark Side. An apology

This should be a time for celebration. Brentford fans know what I mean. Instead, I’m angry again as Star Wars, the second best film franchise of all time (nobody can top ‘Roger’ era Bond) sends me to the bitter depths of despair. So angry it’s not even a football article today.

Yes, it is the fourth of May.

I apologise in advance for repeating a lot of what I’ve said before. I love Twitter but today it’s being given a wide berth. Sci-fi geeks and lovers of crap jokery everywhere have, already, began infecting my social media timeline with the hilarious ‘May the fourth be with you’ comment.

Even now, writing those horrible, horrible words, I can feel a little bit of sick rising to the back of my throat.

Please – I beg of you – it’s not too late. It’s not funny, it’s not clever, its not original and using this weak, weak pun does not make you into some 21st Century Oscar Wilde. I love bad wordplay as much as the next man but this limp ‘gag’ forsakes humour for twee. And those are two fields which are a world apart.

It’s the sort of ‘joke’ used by people who find The Krankies or ‘Big Mouth Billy Bass’ ( ‘Take me to the river” – don’t tempt me) the height of cultural sophistication.

So this fourth of May, if you really want to enjoy Star Wars then stick on The Force Awakens or Return of the Jedi. Perhaps fast-forwarding through any Ewok related content.

Just don’t. Use. That. Phrase.