The owner of Brentford FC Matthew Benham doesn't say much in public.But the founder of the Griffin Park Grapevine, Trevor Inns, managed to get a chat with him in October and posted the highlights.
97 year old BU member Albert French first went to Griffin Park in 1934. Now he’s been to our new stadium with his family and carer for the Chelsea game. We’re hoping Albert is going to be one of the first interviewees in a new Bees history project.
On 31st October 1981 Chris Kamara, newly signed fromPortsmouth, become Brentford’s first black player in a Football League game in a match against Burnley. 40 years Brentford played Burnley again and Chris sent a special video message for the anniversary.
Brentford midfielder Saman Ghoddos has given a very honest interview to an Iranian football podcast about his start. He also talks about the tough fitness regime at Brentford.
Could it really be that when players and other staff join Brentford they are encouraged to read a book by a prize winning psychologist and economist and listen to a former Olympic swimmer. According to The Athletic’s Brentford correspondent Jay Harris it is.We wanted to know more.
BU Contributing Editor Greville Waterman can remember when the only coverage of Brentford was in the Middlesex Chronicle. Now he’s coping with ‘total information overload’. Despite some recent disappointing results he's still upbeat about life as a Premier League Bee fan.
No sooner had the shock news about David Raya’s knee injury sunk in than Bees fans got another chance to see his replacement Alvaro Fernandez in action in the Carabao Cup victory over Stoke. BU Board member David Anderson of the Brentford Tactical podcast compares the two keepers.
Brentford again went head to head and toe to toe with a team from last year’s Premier League top six. And again they just missed out. BU’s Bill Hagerty reports.
We don’t normally cover B team games but we heard they’d played a cup tie against a club known as ‘The Fish’ which is named after a Catholic saint. The game was in front of a record crowd in the shadow of Canary Wharf. Faithful B team follower and BFC...
The visit of the European champions was another game to remember at the Brentford Community Stadium even though the Bees lost to Chelsea. BU Contributing Editor Bill Hagerty was there.
We talk a lot about ‘the Brentford family’ but how about this for an actual Bees family: 31 loyal supporters from 3 generations in 10 different locations in the UK plus a few in Australia. BU Chairman Stewart Purvis met up with some of them at the Wolves game.
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