Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast

Beating Forest, and drinking from the cup of their salty tears, was amazing.  The rising panic of no wins in what seemed like months has subsided.  To have Ivan Toney back, along with a host of others, has cheered the Gtech right up.

Today we talk with Trevor Inns, who runs the Griffin Park Grapevine website and is such a insightful and interesting guest.  To new fans of Brentford FC:  If you've not logged onto the GPG...I'll wait while you create an account...

A special shout-out to Greville Waterman.  He's had to take a week off, and we sure missed his knowledge and his general passion.   The staff at ASFB looks forward to getting back to discussing all things Spursy in the next week.

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We're back!

The staff at Across the Seas but Forever Bees takes their winter holidays and it all goes south on the pitch.  Brentford have lost five straight, and has spent what seems like hours on the pitch not getting out of the 3rd round of the FA Cup. 

But a bright Ivan Toney-shaped light is starting to come on with the new year, some new faces are joining the club (one arriving pre-crocked unfortunately but predictably!), and some important pieces of our team are getting fit again.  There are reasons to be cheerful.  AND I can report on my first trip to the Gtech - it's a wonderful, special place.  

Excited for the second half of the season!  

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Three wonderfully won points against Luton are drown out by the loss at Brighton on Wednesday.  The hits keep coming, as another unreplaceable player heads to the list of long-term injuries.  We give thanks that we're managed by such a master, that we have players coming back, and that we have accumulated enough points to hopefully ride out the lean weeks to come. 

It's not at all doom-and-gloom in the ASFB studios when Glenn Houlihan and Greville Waterman come in to go over an interesting couple of days around West London.

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Remember when we used to dream of one-off Cup matches against 'teams like Arsenal'.  Now we play them with the remnants of a squad decimated by injury...and we're unlucky not to get something from the match.  A free-hit that didn't work out is the worst you can say about last Saturday.  

Nolan and Greville Waterman are in the studios to discuss this and so much more, including a look ahead to teams looking up the table at us, for once.  There's opportunity there no doubt, but pressure as well.  There are no easy ones at this level.

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...there's no real reason to discuss Liverpool at all.  Instead we talk his experiences around Griffin Park in the 1950s and 1960s.  Really.  What stories he has from a golden era of Brentford.  Players I've heard of, he saw live!  Greville Waterman and I sit at Malcolm's feet to hear stories of Tower, Cakebread, McDonald and many, many others.

Whether you're a long-time Bee or just come to the club, this is a podcast worth your time. 

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If the designers of football dreamed up the perfect match for spectators, it would probably follow the script from last weekend:  Returning favorite scores, the home team falls behind, only to gloriously triumph in the end.  What a match we had with West Ham.

Ben Clowney joins from Michigan (he's not originally from there) to talk about West Ham and to look ahead at the exciting Sunday fixture against Liverpool.  Great days to be a Bee.

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Honestly, a decade ago if I told you we'd be sitting there looking down on the other three West London clubs (I can't bring myself to name them, not at Holloween)....

A third win in a row at Stamford Bridge and once again the sun is out and the birds are singing.  Who was that on the ledge a few weeks ago talking panic and gloom???

Thank you for listening, thank you for the comments.  This is a labor of love but it means a lot that people are enjoying it with us.

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What's not to love? 

 Maupay reminds us why we were so in love with him a few years ago, VAR provides the talking points, crazy weather, 19 year old wonderkinds getting their debuts, three absolutely cracking goals, pirouetting midfield geniuses, a red card even.  It was a great day last Saturday down the olde Gtech.

Michel Cowdrey checks in from Atlanta, and he has an AMAZING Brentford story to tell, spanning generations.   Along with our friend from the North, Greville Waterman we look back at a brilliant win against Burnley and forward to a daunting challenge at Stamford Bridge.

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There are so many reasons I'm proud to support Brentford Football Club, and Saturday was another reason.  The heart and resilience and guts shown by the (remaining) squad was quite something.  Last minute winners are a part of sport - great when you get one, dreadful when it happens to you.

But under the circumstances, this was a great performance.

To make sense of the chaos this week was Jay Altair from Boston (the one in the States) and Greville Waterman from a spot just north of London.  

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If we spend all my life in the top tier of English football (soccer for us Yanks), I'll never get used to the idea that we're playing at Old Trafford in a league match.   I hope you know enough about our history to wonder at that idea as well.  It's important that part of our club's DNA remains a humble acknowledgement of how far we've come.

After a dreadful two weeks, we right the ship a bit against Forest and are able to look forward to ManU with some renewed optimism.  

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