Word On The Street: It Could Have Been Us!
Scoring seven goals to progress in a cup competition and breaking records along the way, as Brentford did this week, should always be a cause for celebration. However, in this case, it should certainly be a cause for reflection too. As it is, the Bees played the game...
Liverpool Gearing Up for Tricky Brentford Test – Fans Eye View: This is Anfield
Henry Jackson (@HenryJackson87) from This Is Anfield gives us the lowdown on Liverpool. You can also check out Dan from The Anfield Wrap on this week's pre match podcast from The Globe pub (click below) Liverpool have had a decent start. Are you happy with how things...
POST-MATCH DEBRIEF: BRENTFORD 7 OLDHAM 0
Avoiding a potential banana skin League Cup slip-up was vital against bottom-of-the-Football-League Oldham Athletic. Thankfully, The Bees came through with flying colours in front of over 12,000 at New Griffin Park. Overall Performance Brentford didn’t really have to...
Oldham Athletic preview and pub guide: Brentford return to Carabao Cup action
Oldham's season has been nothing short of disastrous so far and they look to face a real battle to retain their Football League status this season. After eight matches, they sit bottom of League Two with four points from one win, one draw and six defeats. They have...
Brentford Are As I Expected As We Gear Up For Liverpool
Bartek added this as a comment to the Beesotted Wolves Debrief article at the weekend and we feel it makes a good article read too. Share your own thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Listening to and reading you guys here I appreciate the fact...
POST-MATCH DEBRIEF: TEN MAN BEES WIN AWAY – WOLVES 0 BRENTFORD 2
Beesotted contributor Jim Levack gives us the lowdown on Brentford’s cracking away win up in Wolverhampton. You can also listen to the weekend review podcast and the post-match podcast in the links below. Overall Performance The brilliant and, at times, brutal away...
Brentford Director of Football Phil Giles’s Post-Match Thoughts On Wolves 0 Brentford 2 – Post-Match Podcast From the Stands
Brentford went to Wolves hoping to bounce back after the Brighton defeat. And what a win. Two goals scored. A load disallowed. The woodwork hit. And that was only with ten men on the pitch as the Bees despatched Wanderers We spoke Bees fans, very complementary Wolves...
Bees Looking for Bounce Back at Molineux – Wolves v Brentford Pre-Match Podcast
Billy Grant, Dave Lane and Liberal Nick Carthew hooked up in the virtual joint to review the Brighton defeat and look forward to the trip to Wolves Will Allsopp gives Wolves Stats analysis Jonathan JB Burchill on the facts and funk Plus Rich from Wolves Fancast gives...
Word On The Street: Life Defining Moments With Brentford
Beesotted contributor, Tim Street, looks back at some life defining and football life defining moments! It’s often said that everyone of a certain age remembers where they were when JFK was shot. A more recent example, perhaps, is everyone knowing their whereabouts...
Wolves Looking To Bury Their Chances Against Brentford. Fans Eye View
Dave Azzopardi from @TalkingWolves gives us the lowdown on Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolves have had a mixed start to the season. Are you happy? Yes I actually think it's been very decent. Okay, results haven't been fantastic but we played three really tough teams to...
Bees Rue Missed Chances Against Brighton – Beesotted Weekend Review
Billy TheBee Grant, Dave Laney Lane and Simon Radders Radford review Brentford's match against Brighton and walk through the key talking points of the game including: 👀Bees' eye catcher ⚠️Brighton danger man 💩Stinker of the match...
Post-Match Debrief: Seagulls Complete Successful West London Raid – Brentford 0 Brighton & Hove Albion 1
Beesotted contributor Lewis Holmes gives us the lowdown on Brentford’s 1-0 home defeat to Brighton. Catch up with his thoughts here. Plus you can listen to the weekend review podcast and the post-match podcast in the links below Overall performance I am ever the...
Brighton and Hove Albion preview and pub guide: Maupay returns with Seagulls
Brighton are in their fifth season in the Premier League, and go into Saturday's match one point and two places ahead of Brentford. Since winning promotion in 2017, they have finished 15th twice, 16th and 17th, winning nine matches every season. It is now their...
Seagulls On Flying Visit to West London- Brentford v Brighton Pre-Match Pod
Billy the Bee Grant, Dave Laney Lane and Gary GP Paul get together in The Virtual Joint after the international break to catch up on the latest Bees news We look back to the transfer deadline and ask if everyone was happy with the business done. We reviewed Bees...
Word On The Street: International Bright Young Things
Beesotted’s Tim Street reflects on a busy international break for the Brentford squad, who have jetted off here, there and everywhere! The excellent #coldwarbees montage also sums up the ‘New Brentford’ v ‘Old Brentford’ contrasts perfectly! The international break...
The Right Back Conundrum – Did Deadline Leave Us Short?
The word on the street, before the transfer window closed last week, was that The Bees were possibly looking to bring one more signing in on deadline day… a more specialist right-back to ensure we had all bases covered between now and January, at which stage the DoFs...
Observations On The Transition Of Brentford Football Club
New Beesotted contributor, Jem Rampling, gives us a dollop of food for thought as he looks back on some of the defining moments in the changing fortunes of Brentford Football Club. There is a paradox of motion which proposes that, because time can be broken into...
Word On The Street – Brentford’s Transfer Window Dealings
Brentford fans will have awoken this morning to the realities of the squad they hope will see them through a successful debut Premier League season – or at least until the transfer window opens again in January. Beesotted's Tim Street looks at Brentford's window...
Brentford Prove to be Tough Match for Aston Villa – The Beesotted Weekend Review
Billy Grant, Dave Lane and Ian Westbrook review the Aston Villa v Brentford match looking at their: 🍔Main takeaway 👀Brentford Eye catcher ☢️Villa danger person 💩Stinker of the match 🗝Key Moment ➕Positives...
Aston Villa 1 Brentford 1 – post-match podcast from the stands
Brentford went to Villa Park unbeaten in the Premier League. A tough match saw the two teams go toe to toe in a match of two great goals and plenty of drama We spoke to Bees and Villa fans in the stands straight after the match
Aston Villa 1 Brentford 1 – Beesotted Post-Match Debrief
Billy Grant (@billythebee99) is back from his West Midlands awayday to give his low-down on Brentford’s hard-earned draw against Dean Smith’s Aston Villa Overall Perspective The Bees remain unbeaten in the Premier League as we go into the first international...
Aston Villa Next Up As Bees Survive Forest Green Cup Scare – Villa v Brentford Preview Podcast
It’s Villa up next as Brentford continue with their unbeaten start to the season with a win in the cup against Forest Green Rovers. Billy Grant, Dave Lane and Simon Radford meet in the virtual joint to discuss potential new signings. Weaknesses in the squad after...
Will Thomas Frank Get One Over On Old Boss Dean Smith? – Aston Villa v Brentford Fans Eye View
Shaiby Ahmed (@Shaiby235) from Villans Together (@VillansTogether) gives us the lowdown on Aston Villa as Thomas Frank comes head to head with his old boss Dean Smith at Villa Park at the weekend Villa came up from the Championship. How different was your first season...
Word On The Street: Catching Up With Dean Smith In The Premier League
This weekend’s trip to the Midlands sees Brentford come up against former boss Dean Smith for only the second time since he left Griffin Park to take up the reins at Villa Park. Beesotted's Tim Street looks back at his time with the Bees and our chances this Saturday...
Brentford 3 Forest Green Rovers 1 – The Beesotted Post-Match Debrief
New Beesotted contributor Simon Radford (@sradford22) gives his thoughts on Brentford’s victory over Forest Green Rovers in the League Cup Overall Perspective The early rounds of the Carabao Cup, as far as Premier League teams are concerned, are meant to serve three...
Can Brentford Compete With The Elite Sticking To The System?
New Beesotted contributor, Steve Hollidge, gives his perspective on the vast sums of money exchanging hands for the world’s elite players and whether Brentford can, or more importantly should, maintain the recruitment policy and culture that’s got them to where they...
Forest Green preview and pub guide: Brentford hope for more Carabao Cup success
Forest Green's first-ever match with Brentford on Tuesday means there will only be four clubs in the current 92 who we have never met in a league or cup match. (If you want to guess who they are, the answer is lower down this article!) And Rovers will arrive at the...
The Beesotted Post Match Debrief: Crystal Palace 0 Brentford 0
Beesotted's Charlie Briggs (@charliebriggs99) put his hand up for this week's Beesotted Post Match Debrief. Overall Perspective Most Bees fans will see coming away from two Premier League outings with four points and two clean sheets as overwhelmingly positive....
Crystal Palace 0 Brentford 0 – Post-Match Podcast from The Terraces
Brentford travelled to Selhurst Park to play Crystal Palace and picked up their first away point of the season as they battled out a hard-fought 0-0 draw We spoke to both Brentford and Palace fans after the match on the terraces and streets of South East London Plus...
Just Don’t Mention The Arsenal Match – Crystal Palace v Brentford Pre-Match Podcast from the Pub
The Brentford team are preparing themselves for their first away game of the season. However, more exciting, Bees fans were gearing themselves up for their first away day since the trip to Cardiff pre-lockdown in Feb 2020. Billy TheBee Grant, Dave Laney Lane and...
BRENTFORD POETRY IN MOTION: GAME ONE ARSENAL (H)
New Beesotted contributor, Jem Rampling, shares his Brentford poetry in motion: Game One: Arsenal (h) The Friday night lights for our Premier League bow New GP is rocking, the atmosphere, wow! Vibrations, ovations, capacity crowd With “Fulham Get Battered” and...
What A Week For New Brentford Traditions
Beesotted contributor Jim Levack give us another wonderful take on life as a Brentford fan this week. I don’t tend to take smartphone pictures or videos at games. Whenever I watch them back, they never seem quite as good as they were in pulsating, adrenaline-charged,...
WORD ON THE STREET: CANOS’ ARSENAL GOAL WAS SO FITTING
Former Middlesex Chronicle Brentford reporter, sports journalist and life-long Bees fan, Tim Street, is one of Beesotted's great new signings. Look out for Tim's weekly column, as well as a host of articles from other writers, on the Beesotted network over the coming...
Brentford v Arsenal Match Recap – Beesotted Weekend Round-Up
What a weekend it was for the Bees - recording their first Premier League win with a victory over Arsenal at New Griffin Park Billy TheBee Grant, Dave Laney Lane and Robin Hood McMichael come to you with a summary of the activity in and around New Griffin Park...
Brentford Beat Arsenal – Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Brentford fans will be waking up this morning pinching themselves and able to enjoy a few more hours as the centre of the footballing world. The Bees’ fully deserved win over Arsenal is, rightly, receiving wall-to-wall press coverage and Sky Sports News is on a...
The Best Of Times At Brentford
Brentford's Premiership adventure kicks off TONIGHT and Beesotted contributor Jim Levack shares his excitement, hopes and fears as the big match against Arsenal looms. Within hours, Brentford fans will be flying even higher than they are now or acutely aware of the...
Brentford Exhibition: Griffin Park The Fans’ Story
As Brentford FC enters its first Premier League season, the club will remember its past and the role of its fans and the local community. ‘Farewell Griffin Park- The Fans’ Story’ is a special exhibition at the London Museum of Water & Steam, next door to the...
Brentford Confident Before Season-Opener Battle Against Arsenal – Pre-Match Podcast from The Pub
The day has finally arrived. Brentford are on the eve of playing their very first Premier League match against Arsenal at New Griffin Park. And the Beesotted crew of Billy TheBee Grant (@Billythebee99), Dave Laney Lane (@Beesotted100) and Matt The Allard Allard...
Arsenal preview and pub guide: Brentford open Premier League season against the Gunners
When I was a little boy watching Brentford in Division Four in the 1970s, my late dad used to recall the Bees' glory days from the 1930s and always used to say to me "Brentford were Arsenal's bogey team". It was his favourite stat, but he was right - in eight meetings...
Getting Right Back To It – Friday Night Excitement
New Beesotted contributor Lewis Holmes shares his excited thoughts ahead of the curtain raiser (one sleep to go) with Arsenal on Friday night. Good to have you on board Lewis. My last Brentford match was on the 7th of March 2020: that thumping 5-0 rout of Sheffield...
Brentford Fans Confident The Bees Will Survive In The Premier League
With a little over 48 hours to go until the curtain raises on Brentford’s landmark first season’s adventure in the Premier League, like most of you, and if the result of the Beesotted fans’ poll this week is anything to go by, I’m full of excitement and a modest sense...
Four Days And Counting Till Arsenal – Beesotted Weekend Reflection
Billy the Bee Grant and Dave Laney Lane get together in the virtual joint to chew the fat over Brentford's victory over Valencia at the weekend Rasmus Ankersen gives us the lowdown on new signing Frank 'The Tank' Onyeka. Plus they discussed Brentford's other new...
Brentford DoF Rasmus Ankersen post-match podcast interview plus fans from the terraces – Brentford 2 Valencia 1
Brentford played their final friendly of pre-season against Valencia at New Griffin Park. And an entertaining contest it was in front of 10,000 fans as Brentford grappled with VAR, disallowed goals and coming from behind to despatch their Spanish rivals. A header from...
I-Spy: Premier League Special
With the new football season just a Mads Bech Sorensen throw away, Beesotted’s Jon Restall @thecondorman brings all keen I-Spyers up to date with some new and exciting things to look out for: Off the Pitch Ticket Requests Now that tickets are scarce it’s amazing how...
Brentford Penguins FC: Supporting Down Syndrome Children
Finn Byrne explains how the Ealing community has been pulled together by former Brentford F.C player, Allan Cockram, in his efforts to make children of all abilities enjoy the beautiful game. Far too often those with Down Syndrome find it hard to find places that will...
Seven Things We’ve Learned From Brentford’s Preseason
With just one more preseason friendly to go until the Premier League season kicks off, Jim Levack shares his thoughts on what he’s learned from our warm up matches this week. Sharper and faster Brentford still look ever so slightly off the pace. It might only be by...
Brentford 0 West Ham 1 – Positive Performance Despite Narrow Bees Defeat
Brentford went down 1-0 to a strong West Ham side at New Griffin Park, but Thomas Frank's boys once again gave a very good account of themselves, with Shandon Baptiste (second half) and Halil Dervişoğlu (first half) the two stand-outs for the home side. Said Benrahma,...
Griffin Park: Remembered With Pride One Year On
It was a year ago today that Griffin Park hosted her last competitive match and Bees fans shared a night of mixed emotions as play-off celebrations merged with waves of regret and a real sense of bereavement. Seeing off Swansea City (remember them) and coming from...
Brentford Earn Fully Deserved Friendly Draw Against Manchester United
Beesotted's Jim Levack looks back at a cracking night's entertainment at Old Trafford where the Bees came from behind twice to earn a fully deserved draw against Manchester United. As the clock ticks down, Brentford fans are slowly getting a clearer idea of what they...
Manchester United Host Brentford Tonight: The Red Devils Take On The Bees
Brentford take on Manchester United at Old Trafford tonight in the first of three tough tests ahead of their Premier League curtain raiser against Arsenal in a little over a fortnight’s time. Thomas Frank’s players have been enjoying a week at England’s training...