Beesotted is 1000 episodes old. Happy birthday to us. And in good old Beesotted style, the Beesotted crew went down the pub - The Castle Inn in Ealing - to celebrate fully

And what a bumper podcast we have for your. Starting off with the first podcast recorded on the train from Middlesborough to London on Saturday 24th September 2014 after The Bees got spanked 4-0, the show - which will run over two episodes - navigates Brentford's journey through the Championship and into the Premier League

Billy The Bee Grant and Dave Laney Lane are joined by a plethora of characters both in the pub and in the virtual joint with members of the original podcast crew of Matt The Allard Allard, Martin The Dutchman Holland and Sav Savvy Bee Kyriacou joining us for a few swift halves. Also joining us were relative newbies Dan The Man Mann and Liberal Tom Fidler

Plus joining us from the virtual joint were a plethora of podcast contributors including:

Liberal Nick

xG Dave

Will The Spreadsheet Winker

Russty Bee

Jonathan JB Burchill

Lord Lou Can

The Gowler

Gerry the Cabbie

Robin Hood and

Katie Bee

as we weaved through the last 9 years of Beesotted podcast in which we discussed:

Brentford's amazing first season in The Championship where they reached the Playoff Semi-Final against all odds

The 'sacking' of Mark Warburton

The madness of the Dijkhuizen era which lead to stability of Dean Smith

The Thomas Frank era

We listen back to interviews with:

Thomas Frank

Dean Smith

Rob Rowan

plus we hark back to magical podcast moments of old such as:

The crashing of a couple's blind date at a podcast recorded in Hammersmith

Mark Warburton telling us that he did not agree with Benham's approach to signing players and running his club

Rob Rowan giving us his vision of the B team

Thomas Frank telling us how he wasn't quite sure when he was offered a downgrade of a role to become Dean Smith's assistant at Brentford

In episode two we will look at:

The Pandemic and how that changed everything

Coming out of the pandemic which co-insided with Brentford's promotion to the Premier League at Wembley

The Premier League Years with Brentford's new global fanbase and outlook on football

Where next?

Episode TWO will be out on PrideOfWest.London

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