Steve D'Amico was a sensational contributor last season and is back this time, being once again sensational.  Along with Greville Waterman, we look back at a refreshing and encouraging three points away.   So many talking points from a truly entertaining match.

The reason you always wanted to be in the Premier League (but never imagined it actually occurring) is to say things like, "...and now we look forward to Liverpool at home, and then Manchester City three days later."  So you have to be balanced and calm about this daunting week to come.

Text the pod!

What a mad season.  We get beat up at home and I'm...pretty pleased.  We discover we might have a first-rate keeper, we have a team of character and grit, we gave an assembled all-world team a real battle.  I do love supporting this club.

Charlie Corr, of the New York Church of the Red Lion, joins Greville Waterman and me for a really fun discussion of the match, of where we are, and of the daunting month before us.

Thanks for listening, and for the comments I get through social media and through email ([email protected]).

Text the pod!

We here at Across the Seas but Forever Bees have met so many fascinating people, all drawn to the Brentford story and to the ethos of the club.  It just is a club that good people find naturally.   This episode of the pod features the engaging Mike Sacco who, like so many Bees fans, is finding the club and the culture just for them.  

Along with the returning Greville Waterman we dive into the strange Spurs match from Wednesday, which leads to a wide-ranging conversation on the slightly perilous state of Brentford on this end of January Deadline Day.  All of it is good (it really is) but stay to the end to hear about The Chase!

Text the pod!

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.

Text the pod!

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!  

Text the pod!

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.

Text the pod!

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.

Text the pod!

...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. 

Text the pod!

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.

Text the pod!

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.

Text the pod!