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So as not to clog up other threads… Bees revenue last year was £167m (the vast majority of which was TV money). If you get relegated from the PL, parachute payments are less than £50m in Year 1 and tail off rapidly in Years 2 and 3. Every year you can stay up distances you from the yo-yo clubs...

I noticed this morning that the estimable @SwissRamble has switched from twitter to a new platform (substack). He has just written a new piece on the impact of promotion to the premier league, which obviously has plenty on BFC, so thought I'd start a new thread rather than tack it on to an old...

The Carabao Cup third round draw will take place on Wednesday, August 24 c. 9.45pm, after the conclusion of the Tranmere v. Newcastle game, live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football. Teams in the draw: Arsenal Aston Villa Blackburn Rovers Bournemouth Brentford Burnley Charlton...

I see Jarred Gillett’s got the Leicester gig on Sunday. Always seemed pretty sensible (especially in the play-off semi ?).

One of the top five always of all time. Simple as that. Best home support I’ve witnessed for many a year,.. shame they hadn’t bargained for the bees ? Epic, awesome, just pick an adjective and tell the tale…it’ll live with me til my dying day.

In times of joy or heartache, the King always has the answer. “If I Can Dream” was a close second, but it has to be…

Having heard so much about Second Season Syndrome ("SSS"), I thought I'd take a look at the jolly old facts. In the ten seasons before this one, five of the previous season's play-off winners were relegated and five survived (though none of them comfortably since the first three). Of those five...

Manchester City (paying out over £35m) were the biggest Premier League spenders on agents’ fees in the past year, as a total of £272 million filtered out of the game, according to data released by the FA and published in The Times this morning. Brentford spent the least on intermediaries at just...

I really enjoyed @Banana's "Championship game round" previews last season, so with chapeau raised to the big yellow one, here's one for the PL#9: The fight for the European places Chelsea v. Norwich (BT Sport) Saturday 23 October at 12:30 Top v. bottom, with the Blues 5/1-on for the win...

Crystal Palace? Just the fifty seven and a half years! How many repeat visitors tomorrow? Hats off to each and every one of you. Only Everton, Citeh, Spurs, Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea to go then...

Apologies in advance, but contemplating tomorrow is just surreal, so I had to put it in (garbled) words. I know delivery of season tickets could have been handled better. Away tickets for Palace could have been easier. New kits were delayed. Onions could be tastier. Etc., etc., etc. There are...

The Telegraph published a lovely article in yesterday’s paper: Remembering Robert Rowan - and his role in Brentford’s promotion miracle (the full text’s in the ‘Media coverage of the big kick-off’ thread). It must have had made a deeper impression on me than I realised, because the first thing I...

You don't have to be Nostradamus to predict that a fair few column inches will be devoted to l'il ol' BFC over the next 48 hours. Please share any good articles here. It'll be good to look back at the 'expert' pundit predictions at the end of the season ;). I know some of these have been posted...

The lead story in The Times sports section today is an allegation that West Brom’s technical and sporting director attempted to broker a dodgy £25m transfer to China for Matheus Pereira back in January. So the exclusive story goes, the WBA director proposed a deal that would have broken Fifa...

Thought it might be helpful to have all the media coverage in one place. As a starter for ten: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57215919 https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/thomas-frank-brentford-championship-playoff-final-2021-swansea-b937719.html...

So... attempt #10, games 23 and 24. Who's done all previous 22 (well, 19)? Plenty of X-rated thrills and spills in this lot:

Oh well, one door closes, another opens. The likes of Ivan, Rico and Vitaly who have played virtually every possible minute since the international break finally get a relative break. Then Boro in the other cup – who cares? – so it has to be the first XI surely? No sentimental rotation, just go...

With everything else happening this year, there have been far more important things to think about than TAPs, but I wondered if anyone ITK had an update on the club’s thinking on TAPs/allocations going forward? There was a lot of chat around the Luton/Fulham games and then, for obvious reasons...

Tues 11th Feb 19:45 Brentford v Leeds 19:45 Forest v Charlton Wed 12th Feb 19:45 Bristol City v Wayne Rooney 19:45 Millwall v Fulham 19:45 Reading v WBA 19:45 Stoke v Preston Some cracking match-ups on Tuesday and Wednesday, besides the champions of Europe at GP. Fulham at Millwall, the...

Filed at Companies House today, so available by the end of the week. Should make interesting reading. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03642327/filing-history Here's a link to last year's for anyone interested: http://tinyurl.com/yxlfg24n