After last Saturday’s defeat at St James’ Park, I contributed to the immediate reaction from fans to The Mag and seemed to irritate some people when I suggested Brentford should not be playing in the Premier League.
This is what I wrote: ‘Is Brentford a Premier League club? They beat us tonight with dodgy VAR and then controlled the minutes given by the inept referee. Brentford are, in my opinion, a rubbish club, making fun of the so-called big clubs with their kneeling and groveling. Good luck to the sad Brentford fans who are happy to get a win at a big club tonight but will never compete in real terms. The sooner we remove Burnley, Bournemouth and Brentford from the Premier League, the better.”
If Brentford are there and beat us then they deserve to be in the Premier League.
Those people who are most annoyed by my match reaction comments, and are clearly unaware that I recently wrote an article on The Mag quoting my Burnley supporter. He said that he knows his club is not big enough to compete and that he would rather not be a yo-yo club, but also be the team that will take the money to make up the numbers in the Premier League through parachute payments.
Thomas Frank has just lost his job at the so-called big club Spurs.
Thomas Frank, who made his name at Brentford in the Premier League, moved (after Spurs paid £6.7m) to join one of the Premier League’s big names. Frank had enjoyed the privilege of working for a well-managed football club (Brentford, not Spurs!) from top to bottom.
The first time I went to a Brentford match they were playing in the old Third/Fourth Division.
Easy to get to as I have lived in London permanently since 1992. Brentford and Fulham were two lower league clubs who, when friends visited me, could have a beer in their local drinkers before the match and then pay on the terraces. So relaxed at the time that some boys even lit fake cigarettes, confident no one would bat an eye on the sparsely populated concrete steps.
These teams have little history, unlike Burnley, who have sepia-tinged memories of great days, including the defeat to us in the FA Cup semi-final, when the great Spion Kop exploded with Geordie chaos at Sheffield Wednesday.
Semi-finals were never held at Griffin Park. Brentford will never rival Sheff Wed in status, although they will be divided next season.
Clubs of the caliber of Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton play under the Premier League monetary system, are well managed financially, but are not realistically challengers, merely a means for the big clubs to continue their dominance.
In my opinion, Brentford has never been a top club, but it has become one and has retained its position. Thanks to financial regulations and payments to clubs for maintaining their position, they sustain themselves through excellent stewardship.
Just down the road from Brentford are Chelsea and Fulham.
Chelsea have adopted the Yankee dollar and are quickly becoming, if not already, a tourist club. How long before investment comes from the United States and Brentford is on the bucket list for the London Premier League experience? Anyone visiting Kew Gardens and seeing a Premier League match? I’d rather go to Stoke on a wet Wednesday evening.
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