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Ask any of my mates and they’ll tell you I’m something of a pessimist when it comes to Brentford.

I prefer to call myself a realist though, and if we’re all honest the events of seasons past – especially the last one – have merely strengthened my resolve never to look on the bright side.

I know I’m not alone. I go to Griffin Park with a bloke we call BG (big game) who hasn’t been seen during the run in.

I rang him after the Notts County game to ask if he was okay, and his admission will, I’m sure, strike a chord with many of you reading this.

“I just can’t come to any more games until it doesn’t matter, Jim,” he explained.

It was like a confessional, so I put the defence that the side needed his support.

“You won’t change my mind. I woke up on the morning of the Orient game with a bad feeling and gave my ticket away. I haven’t seen us win there in 30 years and couldn’t do it to myself, the team and everyone else.”

Some sacrifice given that he lives just up the road in Mile End, but he wasn’t finished yet… “Jim, I’m a Jonah. If I come back it will all go wrong again so it’s best that I stay away.”

Needless to say he wasn’t there for Notts County or Crawley and assured me he has absolutely no intention of making the trip to Swindon.

I told him he was being ridiculous once more after the Crawley win when, during his diatribe I realised I’d found someone who was, secretly, even more pessimistic than me and had finally ‘come out’.

His absence meant he was now viewing things dispassionately and as such, he made a couple of extremely valid points that I’m sure Mark Warburton will be hammering home to the players before each of the last five games.

Tuesday night’s win and Sheffield United’s late penalty showed just how quickly things can change under the three points for a win system. Two defeats for Brentford and two wins for Rotherham and it’s game on again.

Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t for a minute think this squad has any intention of relinquishing its grip of what it’s worked so hard to achieve with, arguably, the entire football community’s blessing (Orient and Rotherham fans aside) given the last day horror.

But before we get too carried away, it’s important to remember that there is another target on the horizon – and that’s to finish as Champions.

In previous years Brentford and Bees fans would probably have been delighted to be within touching distance of promotion and happy to be runners-up.

But times have changed and our club is now the most professionally run I can ever remember, with that essential ruthless mentality to match.

That’s why we should be settling for nothing short of top spot because, and I truly believe this, we ARE the best squad in the division..

BG is great company and a long standing friend, but if it means I don’t see him until August, then frankly, good riddance.

Jim Levack