Paul Buckle was one of the Brentford squad that won promotion 30 years ago. Now he lives in California, runs a successful soccer consultancy business and is married to a sports TV star.
The Bees United AGM got Greville Waterman thinking about why BU was created, what it has achieved and what its role is today. He looks back to ‘Heroic supporters rattling their collecting boxes to help stave off disaster for another week’.
There’ve been books, a TV documentary, podcasts and an exhibition but now there’s a play too about the history of Brentford FC. And again it is the work a fan. Geoff Buckingham, one of the founders of Bees United, has written ‘A TRAM STOP IN HOUNSLOW-The Founding Of Brentford Football...
It was definitely a night for heads in hands. Brentford missed chance after chance during a dominant display in the first half. Bill Hagerty was there.
Stuart Hughes, BBC producer and Brentford fan, has become a Communications Advisor to Bees United. Stuart created Bees Bulletin and continues to work under that brand but is now focusing his Brentford projects on videos with BU.
The club shop in Braemar Road has given way to the Bees Superstore near the new stadium. We look back at the one of the Club's last connections with the Griffin Park area.
Bees United fully supports Thomas Frank’s call for transparency about each club’s COVID numbers and clarity about the criteria for postponing games. We tried to find the answer to some key questions.
Whatever happened to fan favourites like Toumani Diagouraga? BU Contributing Editor Greville Waterman calculates how many former Brentford players are still plying their trade.
Have you heard the one about the headmaster of a school in Spain who once went to a game in Griffin Park and is now such a fan that his school will be singing ’Hey Jude’ this Christmas as a tribute to Brentford.
While many Brentford supporters were in Newcastle last weekend, Bees fan Romain Lewis was in Las Vegas winning the equivalent of a gold medal in the World Series of Poker. He did it wearing his favourite Brentford shirt.
Jonathan Burchill is a Bees fan who loves collecting facts and figures, the more exotic the better. He’s written a book about Griffin Park called ‘A Pub On Each Corner’ which tells you, among many other things, which Brentford player ended up sleeping in a car on Ealing Common.
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