The Morning After (The Morning After) The Night Before

Posted by Lewis Holmes | Aug 15, 2022 | 1 |

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Lewis Holmes

Brentford supporter since the mid-90s (I think, the 90s were a blur). Big fan of Rasmus Ankersen's attempts to take the emotion out of the game, but also a big fan of Alan McCormack's blood and thunder attempts to put it into each and every match. I'm prone to mangled metaphors, obscure movie references and inventive swearing.

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SamUrai Bee on August 16, 2022 at 5:51 pm
Like Lewis I think a huge psychological momentum shift might just have arrived with the demolition of MU in 35 minutes of glorious football – I thought we’d all died and gone to heaven when the ref finally blew for halftime and showed some mercy on the geezers in snot green.
Mind you,I was a bit miffed not everyone stood and cheered our magnificent team off the field for a well deserved cuppa – my hands were starting to suffer concussion from excessive applause.
But it it was what the rest of the football must have thought as one of the most complacent elite clubs there is were battered like cod and fried in the unforgiving West London sun. Perhaps now we’ll all get a rest from the “little Brentford” narrative and all the patronising crap we’ve endured since daring to intrude on the big boys private turf. Best of all the sense of easy expectation of three points so many clubs showed when we turned up for a game last season will disappear after this result. Even my Liverpool and West Ham supporting friends were stunned by the turn of events.
And there are some serious questions some clubs need to ask themselves, but I hope they don’t. The age of the all knowing, big reputation, all deciding manager is over. Brentford have proved that comprehensively but some clubs think that if they can just get a big enough name in, all will be well. Really? Well good luck with that!
There is one more issue to mention and that is about the monumental teasing of Eriksen, who must be wondering if he has just made the monumental career balls up of his life. Of course, I fully understand our superb and kind Frank being slightly sad about our serenade of our former hero. But I think he also needs to consider that Eriksen was a little bit the author of his reception.
All of us understood he was likely to depart, especially if it had been for Spurs or a full on top side. But the way he delayed and delayed, using Brentford as a fall back to aid his negotiations that jarred. He could have just said at the end of last season “thanks for all the fish lads, but unless things go awry I intend to move on”. Instead the will he, won’t he left a sour taste and I thought it was just plain rude. An end of saga social media message just didn’t cut it for me, sorry. So yes, I was one of the many, probably majority, of Brentford fans just letting him know in a not unfair way how disappointed we were with the manner of his exit.
The irony will be if we finish ahead of his new side this season, no longer the impossibility it seemed to the football world so few days ago.
The Brentford dream goes on thanks to the magnificent Matthew, Frank and lovely people and players who must make us one of the happiest clubs you could wish to find. They’re the people I want to praise. More than sixty years of supporting Brentford seems worth all the pain that had to be endured to arrive at this happy hour. Long may it last.
Come on Bees…and I hope Wissa gets his deserved hat trick soon,
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