Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast

Football, bloody hell. Greville Waterman and I look back at a tumultuous season. It promised so much in the heat and humidity of Washington DC in July, and in the end we hung on. 16th at Christmas and 16th at the end, Brentford Football Club were never boring but you did watch some of the matches through your fingers. Admit it.We look forward as well. There are big decisions to mak

Glenn Houlihan joins me as we look back at Fulham, and specifically...well, you know who we discussed. And we look ahead to Bournemouth. What a season it has been, but I'm proud of who Brentford is and how they've conducted themselves throughout this often insanely challenging year. Top to bottom, the club has made me proud this season. Even that one player we discussed so much in

Old friend Lev Riley joins Tim and Greville this week in the ASFB studios for a really fascinating conversation. Lev tells us of his first trip to the Gtech, with side-trips to The Griffin pub and to the spot of old Griffin Park. It's (rightly) a bit of a sacred pilgrimage now for a visiting American Bees fan. The Gtech is great n'all...but I miss the old girl.It is the 10th year a

What a season. The Luton victory says as much about this lost season of such high expectations as any match could. Now that we are back to a near first team (ok...without Rico, Norgaard, Toney and DaSilva!!) we are rampant against a Luton side that really couldn't afford to be beaten. What could have been...This week Adam Harder and Greville Waterman join me in the ASFB studios. Ad

Tempting fate, I'm declaring us 'safe' for another glorious season in the rarified air of the Premier League after a professional defeat of Sheffield United. Greville Waterman is along to tell me that Luton remains a 'must win' and if not it's 'squeeky bum time'. But, really?The free-flowing conversation includes a review of the match (it was never a foul by Collins!!!), and then s

Could any three matches have such competing stories as the draws against ManU, Brighton and Villa? Each tell a different version of the season: So much ability and potential in the first, so much exhaustion in the second, so much chaos in the third.Michel Cowdry was at the Gtech for the first two, and was at Fan Fest in Nashville for the third. He's just one of the best guests ever

What a joy it was to speak with Marcus Gayle and with Megan Bespolka, who is the International Marketing Manger for Brentford Football Club. We talk the Nashville Fan Fest as well as about international membership for American fans - and how to plan your journey to the GTech. Along with Greville Waterman I get a chance to ask Marcus about some of the memories he has of his two spel

...unless you're a "Big" club obviously. The rules aren't 'different', just malleable apparently.Brent James and Bill Ireland drop into the ASFB studios all the way from Boone, North Carolina to talk Arsenal and Burnley. I really cannot believe how nice all the Brentford people I meet are. Honestly. And I'm also amazed at the passion this little West London club inspires. From meet

Brentford plays a wonderfully topsy turvy match against Chelsea, a match we could have, and maybe should have, won. A match that Chelsea could have, and maybe should have, won. Yah, that sort of match. Greville Waterman and I discuss this and look ahead to the daunting task of taking on an in-form Arsenal. We disagree on the use of the term 'free hit', but agree it'll take a mighty

Brian O'Connell joins the podcast this week as we look forward to a tough West London derby against Chelsea. We're trying to stay positive and progressive, but some West Ham discussion was inevitable. Painful though it was.This week's memory lane moments feature Telford and the end of the 2002 season. We specialize in grim memories, here at ASFB Towers.How do you play Chelsea at ho