Brentford celebrate a wonderful landmark this weekend, with the home fixture against Barnsley marking the club’s 4,000th League game.
Beesotted have produced this video to mark the occasion, using images from throughout the club’s proud history, which give a real feel for our special club and the journey the club’s forefathers started all those years ago.
We spoke on the Beesotted Pride of West London Podcast this week about the significance of the 4000th game to us all, and tried to calculate (roughly) how many of those games we have all been at personally – and although our individual totals vary as ‘our other lives’ sometimes get in the way of following The Bees – we all agreed what a pivotal part the club plays to so many people.
Tickets are still available for Brentford’s 4000th league match against Barnsley so get yourselves down there. And season ticket holder can bring two friends along for £10 each. You can get hold of tickets here.
Brentford ‘Til I Die? Absolutely!
So, sit back (with headphones on preferably), and absorb these wonderful photos, then look forward to Saturday’s match, and the 4,000 matches that follow… Come On You Bees!
Dave Lane
@beesotted100
The little vid is beautiful, proper choked me up. Sometimes I feel I’ve given a lot to our club, then I realise what it has given me.
Barnsley @ GP For Game 4000.
For me Saturday is a momentous occasion, the chance to see our beautiful football club competing in its 4000th league fixture should be something to savor.
I’m minded to think about all of those who’ve gone before us but that aren’t here now. The souls of BFC who’ve done just what we will do on Saturday at GP, meet their mates, have a beer or a bovril and immerse themselves in Brentford Football club. Some who put in decades and never got to see us play at this level, some who got through wars simply hoping for better days. Those who gave more than they really should have to fend off the QPR takeover, then the attempt to dump our BFC in Woking. The unsung legends that make our club special!
Also think of the well meaning former owners who did & spent what they could, loved the club and had only the best at heart, and then of course the current owner, who’s wisdom and determination has revived us & taken it to a place once beyond our wildest dreams. And those who have, and still work for the club, many for small reward, who’ve given so much to the community, and to keep BFC special.
With a new home on the horizon and the chance to regain our pre war place in the game, the future could be even brighter.
Were it not for these people, and so many others, there would be no 4000th game. So now it’s our turn – to see in this fixture in the championship, to watch talented players wearing the stripes and with a shot at a play off position as a bonus.
Sure we have 2 big derby games to come, but first this, a celebration of Brentford FC, the pride of Middlesex, a proper club with soul. Everyone who is anyone & who shares a fondness or love for this club really should come down and roar on the Bees – this one matters.
See you there.
Stylishly done. As passionate outside the walls of GP as you are inside. B’s que un club.