The Beesotted Brentford Pride of West London Podcast

The day has finally arrived. Brentford are on the eve of playing their very first Premier League match against Arsenal at New Griffin Park.
 
 And the Beesotted crew of Billy TheBee Grant (@Billythebee99), Dave Laney Lane (@Beesotted100) and Matt The Allard Allard (@TheMattAllard) were joined by Arsenal blogger Darren Berry (@highberry_afc) down The Globe Pub to discuss the big game. 
Also on the show, Will The Spreadsheet Winker gives the statistical lowdown on what Brentford can expect from the Premier League. 
Brentford Director of Football Rasmus Ankersen gives his thoughts on how Brentford will get on against Arsenal. 
Chris from FC Lorient podcast La Tavarn (@LaTavarn) gives the lowdown on Brentford’s new signing winger Yohan Wissa

We hear the opinion of fans on the terrace and in the pubs after the Valencia game
Plus JB gives us Premier League facts and funk
The crew rate their clubs as they come out of pre season in terms of preparation, personnel, fitness and fan feeling. 
Plus they pick out their key players 

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Billy the Bee Grant and Dave Laney Lane get together in the virtual joint to chew the fat over Brentford's victory over Valencia at the weekend

Brentford Director of Football Rasmus Ankersen gives us the lowdown on new signing Frank 'The Tank' Onyeka.

Plus they discussed Brentford's other new signings. Brentford's resuming taking the knee and Ivan Toney's statement.

Plus they discussed the Premier League World - Brentford special documentary which broadcast recently on Sky TV featuring fans and players (https://youtu.be/TLR_FBJy7Ek)

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Brentford played their final friendly of pre-season against Valencia at New Griffin Park. And an entertaining contest it was in front of 10,000 fans as Brentford grappled with VAR, disallowed goals and coming from behind to despatch their Spanish rivals

We spoke to fans in ground and in the pub after the match

We also spoke to Brentford Director of Football Rasmus Ankersen who gave us his thoughts on Brentford's pre-season as well as how Brentford are shaping up going into the Arsenal match on Friday

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Brentford went down 1-0 to a strong West Ham side at New Griffin Park but Thomas Frank's boys once again gave a very good account of themselves with Shandon Baptiste (second half) and Halil Dervişoğlu (first half) the two stand-outs for the home side. Said Benrahma, came back to his old stomping ground and delivered the decisive goal, a lovely curling shot into the top corner from a half cleared ball, but over all, there was little between the two sides and Bees fans came away quietly confident that their side will mix it with most in the Premier League campaign ahead based on this week's showings. COYB

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Brentford signed Frank 'The Tank' Onyeka from Danish club FC Midtjylland for a club record fee (at the time. Until they signed Kristoffer Ajer a few days later) of around €10m.

This impending transfer was revealed at the Beesotted Podcast in the pub with Brentford's Directors of Football Phil Giles and Rasmus Ankersen - much to Rasmus' surprise that Beesotted had got an early sniff

FCM fan Simon Hansen gives a great rundown as to what Brentford fans can expect of Onyeka. Fast. Strong. Good with the ball. Duracell bunny. Rated as one of the best, if not the best player playing in the Danish Superliga last season. 

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Brentford signed Kristoffer Ajer from Celtic for a club record fee of £13.5m as they start to shape their squad up for Premier League football.

Ex football agent Will Glavin from Celtic Now and Forever Podcast gives us the lowdown on the Norwegian international. 

His strengths and weaknesses. His style of play. His temperament and how he thinks he will get on playing for Brentford in the Premier League. 

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#BrentfordFC travelled to Old Trafford to play Manchester United in a pre-season friendly. 

Billy Grant hooked up with the South Coast Bees Colin, Daisy, Lewis and Bella in a boozer on the South Coast to give their thoughts on f pre-season so far - the Bees signing three players to date in Ajer, Onyeka and Peart-Harris. 

And the Man United game. 

#mufc 

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Brentford signed Myles Peart-Harris from Chelsea in a move that raised few eyebrows in so much that Peart-Harris was a highly-rated academy graduate that many Chelsea fans hoped to see feature in their first team at some time in the near future

Billy Grant caught up with Joe Tweedy (@JoeTweedie) from The London Is Blue Podcast (@LondonBluePod) to get the lowdown on Brentford's new attacking midfielder.

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It may not have ended the way we all hoped, but  England reached their first major final in over 50 years and that is something to be very proud about. Billy Grant had followed England every step of the way at Euro 2020 but decided only to document the final for superstition's sake. 
 
Then, because England lost on penalties to Italy in such a cruel fashion, this podcast was shelved for a couple of weeks, possibly even resigned to the recycle bin. However, now the pain had eased slightly, listening back to the enthusiastic voices, and hearing the singing from the terrace, we realised England may have lost the final... but there was so much that the team, and the country, gained during a dramatic month when the nation got a well-needed release after the pressure the pandemic had brought upon them. 


This show talks to a wide range of fans on and off the terrace. Fans reflect on the tournament as a whole talking to fans who went to previous games including the banned match in Rome.

It also talks to black and asian England fans, getting their views on why supporting England never appealed to them before this tournament and why this particular England team resonated with them.

It captures the excitement of a wide range of fans before and during the match. Plus it captures the mood after and tries to contextualise the racial abused dished out by the three England players Saka, Sancho and Rashford whilst also expressing great pride in how this team has carried themselves and captured the nation in a way that no other team has done.

Re-live that Euro 2020 final where the hopes and the dreams and the enthusiasm and pain of the fans were reflected in this energy-packed podcast. All those feelings taking place in one rollercoaster of an evening. 

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Brentford are promoted to the Premier League. And who best to ask about HOW that happened than Phil Giles and Rasmus Ankersen - Brentford's Directors of Football.

This is the second part of a two-part podcast.

You can check out Part 1 - which talked about what looks like it's gonna be Brentford's 1st Premier League signing Frank Onyeka, the closing of the academy, managers who eat fish with their hands, where the DoF made mistakes and what they got right, who the fans' most surprising signing and who the DoFs most surprising signing was plus much much more on PrideOfWest.London

With lockdown easing, Beesotted were back where they are most at home. In the pub.

And in true Brentford style, Phil and Rasmus were more than happy (too happy I would say) to come to the pub for an evening hosted by Billy Grant and Dave Lane - just as Head Coach Thomas Frank did before them - to eat, drink, talk with the fans invited to the event and chat for two hours on the Beesotted LIVE podcast on everything Brentford

This podcast is brilliant. Funny. Insightful. Interesting. Reflective.


You can support Beesotted (no pressure) to help to keep us running by going to Beesotted.com/Beer where we very cheekily as you to buy us a beer. But beer really means web hosting. And equipment. And maintenance. And subscriptions. And photograph fees. And everything else that we have to sort to keep the show own the road. Oh and beer😀

And you can get our brand new Brentford Premier League T-Shirts at Beesotted.com/PremierLeagueTees

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