Bees Up Fulham Down A Toast to the Breadman and Benham
Glorious sunshine a full Griffin Park, West London's best kept secret enjoyed its celebration this afternoon as the Bees polished off Westley's Stevenage with a going through the gears to ease to their 19th home win of the season.
Bidwell returned for Yennaris and Reeves in for Trotta as the Breadman flooded midfield with Clayton as lone ranger. King Kev started on the bench as we all rose to salute the man as he approached the New Road dugout.
It was a slumbering first half, Warburton was clearly agitated as the Bees played pass the parcel along the back line, the Breadman clapped and cajoled as he urged the Bees to press on the accelerator.
After 25 minutes, Craig took a cut from a headed clearance and claret cascaded from above his eye, Kev bib off was ready, TC who has played with a broken wrist and bandaged head this season knew he was the understudy today as he headed off to be stitched as the lead role King Kev's ran on for the 500th time to the largest roar of the day. But Captain Craig was no understudy this season, he was the main star in this promotion winning defence.
A O'Connor header forced Day into a rushed save, as the scriptwriters sharpened their pencils, it was our only effort of the half. Second half, Saville who was quiet had a shot that pinballed across to Clayton 5 yards out ping off the post and back out, Warburton clasped and wrung his hands. Chance gone.
It was Donaldson last contribution as Trotta was sent on, New Road wondered if we would see Clayton again as his agent rubs his hands and waits for offers. Trotta gave us some urgency as Judge buzzed into life and Reeves got busy. Mousinho grappled Douglas to the ground, no penalty and our Blackbeard took a agricultural swipe and look like he connected, referee Phillips in his last game brandished yellow, we puffed out our cheeks, the ref was in the party spirit luckily.
The Breadman then changed the game for the better, Yennaris for Saville and Mac moved into the middle, Douglas off the leash, it worked a treat.
Stevenage forced Button into a great save, Luke Freeman a shining light amongst Westley's ordinary fare, took the game to our defence and went close. He is a player who fits the Breadman mantra. Young and gifted the kind of player who'd be a good future pick for the Warbs academy. :looks:
Douglas and Judge combined well and unpicked the Stevenage tide of defence, a low cross eluded Trotta rushing in, Yennaris arrived at the back and cooly picked and found Dallas who side footed in from six yards. 1 Nil it was a five a side goal cool passing along the deck and a tuck in. Ealing Road red flared and bounced as New Road and the Paddock reminded everyone we were going up.
Reeves found his range, a lovely party pass to Dallas who ran in from the right on to the invite and crashed it against Day's crossbar from 20 yards. Reeves then found Judge with another super slip through ball the Judge small stepped into the area and curled it round Day into the bottom corner. The Judge had had the last word and sentence in this season. 2 nil party time bound:
Whistle blown, a cheer and throaty roar from GP, the old ground had not seen a day like this in a generation. 94 points, 19 home wins in 23 games, 28 wins in a season, this class of 13/14 is a vintage one, A year on, we wave at Yeovil and Donny as they hurtle past us in a downward direction as we climb into the league where we belong.
This was our season in the sun, one to remember until the memory goes, for that we raise a glass to our players and a toast to the Breadman and our owner Matthew Benham. This is the start, we are the best kept secret in West London, the balance of power is shifting, Foolham are now level with us with the same amount of points as of Aug 9 and QPR are only a Rosler away from joining our table. It's gonna be a fantastic ride next season and who knows where it will end, but with Benham and the Breadman in charge, we have never had it this good! We will never tire of saying it, The Bees are going up! Enjoy your summer
