"A Pub On Each Corner" facts & stories from Brentford's Griffin Park. https://xitter.cf/t.co/boESU3VdDS…
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13+ years since Brentford’s last double red card match - Sheff Utd (A) on 27 April 2013, in game 44
It was the play-off season under Uwe Rosler which ended with Doncaster 🥶 and a final against Yeovil.
Crazy game of 3 reds, 3 pens (Saunders missed 1) & a last minute equaliser.
Bees game at Torquay in 1991 saw forward Gary Blissett sent off after he went to head the ball & caught defender John Uzzell
Bliss claimed it was an accident but the blood on the defender meant the ref sent him off
Uzzell took Bliss to court for GBH, but he was found not guilty
Facts on part 1 of the @Beesotted podacst:
- How many times have we started 6 unbeaten? And 7? And the record?
- Results for the Pools Panel
- Lots of yellow
- A Bunch of Grapes disagreement set in motion the club of today
- The name we could have had
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Today in 1889 at the Oxford & Cambridge Hotel, the Brentford Rowing Club voted by 8 to 5 in favour of setting up an Association Football club in preference to Rugby
They could never have guessed that in 2026 the club would be playing just 200 meters away from their meeting
Happy Birthday Brentford FC!
Early in 1889 the Brentford Rowing Club split. On 10 Oct the members who had their HQ at the Oxford & Cambridge held a meeting about forming a football club.
The vote on what type of football took place 6 days later.
Team pics from 2026 & 1892
On the latest @beesotted podcast a look back to the CFC match facts:
> 9 on the bench v 11 starters
> 5 unbeaten start has memories of Rosler
> Capt Janelt breaks his duck
> Thiago’s long wait
> Carvalho repeat
> A start not seen since Barrow & Hartlepool
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In 1985 Brentford chairman Martin Lange welcomed the Government Bill that would ban the sale of alcohol at football grounds. Although he would apply for an exemption for the sponsors' suites
You would now have to be 60+ to have been able to drink alcohol unrestricted at football
On part 2 of the @Beesotted podcast:
- A rare 2-2
- Schade 9 games ahead
- Draw specialists
- Another treble sub
- 750th sub
- Why 5k fans beat 37% of matches
- Left backs a plenty
- Wilson was quick but not as quick as Sinton
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Brentford have only once played Sunderland previously in League Cup.
1960 (home) won 4-3 in round 2 (Towers, McLeod, Rainford 2)
First game I've been to where the home side don't produce a matchday programme 😱 Reading v Brentford
Some pre-Reading facts on the latest @Beesotted podcast, including:
- a meeting in this "new" cup
- 120 years of cup visits
- when Reading gave us more money than anyone else had done
- the 4-time loanee
- 64 up
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On the latest @Beesotted (part 1) podcast, facts about:
- Kicking off the “wrong” way
- Vitaly top of the table
- A ref debut & a player decut who's not in the PL 25-man squad
- Triple subs – come a long way since April
- Vitaly top of another table
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Patsy Hendren is a true legend of Brentford FC playing over 400 games through a 20 year period, back from 1907.
AND he played cricket for England.
This fantastic new book tells his complete life story. Well worth going to listen to the author at this event.
Looking forward to talking about my @PitchPublishing book about the great @Middlesex_CCC and England cricketer and @BrentfordFC star, Patsy Hendren on September 10 at the Central Library in Ealing, an area Hendren lived in for many years. @Jonathan77777
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Today in 1904 Brentford had their 1st Southern League game at the new Griffin Park
0-0 v West Ham
But the new ground required more staff & applications had to be made to secretary-manager Dick Molyneux. Apart from selecting the team, he also did club admin at the Princess Royal
On Pt 1 of the @Beesotted podcast:
- A win 78 yrs in the making
- Thiago’s pen was like Bliss
- Repeat from Noades era
- When both full backs last scored
- Perryman’s facts (no funk) man
- Remember Exeter in ’83?
- Collins joins the centre back brace club
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Brentford have previously played Reading in the League Cup in 1963-4:
1st round (A) 1-1 (Block)
Replay (H) 2-0 (og, McLaughlin)