Brentford face Swansea in the 5th round of the FA Cup – the 1st time they have reached thus round in 13 years.
The Beesotted crew of Billy Grant, Dave Lane, Katie Bee Graham and Savvy Bee met up at The Ship Pub in Wardour Street to shoot the breeze as they were well up for the cup.
The tremendous Aston Villa victory
Dean Smith’s return and his delusional statement that Villa were the better side on the day
Sergi Canos the converted full back who can’t defend – apparently
How the stats panned out for the match
Villa fans said they thought Brentford were not as good as before. We discussed whether that was fact .. or fiction
Daniel Bentley
Plus we reminisced about a previous Brentford FA Cup 5th round match which took us to Blackburn in 1989. Stories a plenty to be told as the Brentford special train crawled its way up the country.
Ex Brentford captain Terry Evans gives us his thoughts on that tremendous FA Cup day
We look back at some of Brentford’s terrible FA Cup losses over the years
Plus we chat to Swansea fan Julie Kissick in this week’s Five from The Hive
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