A difficult home game against an improving Chelsea, who made an interesting team selection. Pedro was out and although Palmer and Rogers were playing so were Welbeck and ex-Bee Henderson. With Collins and van ven Berg still out injured, it meant 20-year-old new CB signing Schuster was again starting, when it was expected that he would be weaned into the First XI as the season progressed. We started the game brightly and then Chelsea had increasing amounts of possession. For t

3rd Round Carabao Cup action away to Championship side Reading. KA made eight changes from the team that played Bournemouth on Saturday. Among those coming into the side was Carvalho, who was involved in a competitive fixture for the first time since 1 November 2025, after missing time with an ACL injury. Keeper Balcombe (who has been at the club for years) made only his second senior appearance, while summer signing Diouf started for the first time. Overall, we just did enou

Now one win and three draws in the PL. We were lucky to get away with a point at Bournemouth. They had most of the chances and near misses, and Kelleher was our Player of the Match as his saves kept us in the game. Although we started brightly Bournemouth had numerous chances before a Schade header (he had scored a hat-trick against them last season) against the run of play put us in front (34'). They got a deserved equaliser (38') and it was 1-1 at half time. A huge mistake

At home to Sunderland, this was a game of two halves, two VAR disallowed goals (one for each team) and a soft pen. As well as we played in the first half last week against Leeds, today we played as badly as possible in the first half. We were very lucky to get to half-time 0-0 when we easily could have been several goals down. They even had a goal disallowed in the 6th minute. After making some substitutions we played better in the second half and took the lead from Janelt's

With the signings we have made, including Diouf this week, we now have strength in depth so it was good to see KA get us attacking right from the start away to Leeds United. We had a fantastic first half, great passing and ball control, winning nearly all the 50-50s (we could have played any team off the park), so it was disappointing to go into half-time only a goal up through a brilliant outside of the foot goal by Schade in the 41st minute. We started strongly in the secon

There was a lot to write about, so I would like to acknowledge the Brentford FC website where I have 'lifted' the match report from. "Callum Wilson opened the scoring on his first competitive start for the Bees before Demarai Gray levelled for the hosts, but Aaron Hickey and Nathan Collins restored Brentford's advantage before half-time. Mikkel Damsgaard and Igor Thiago then struck in quick succession after the break, before Collins completed the scoring with his second of th

The season started with an emphatic win over Spurs. We played some of the best football since we have been in the PL, while Spurs (who have spent around £237m this summer, twice breaking their transfer record) played at the same level as they have for the past two seasons (finishing 17th two seasons in a row). We started with the same XI as last Saturday against Eintracht Frankfurt, with midfielder Sangare making his PL debut. Overall, we had 26 shots, 8 on target. The Bees s

First game of the 2026-7 season is Saturday 22nd August kick off 5:30 pm at the Gtech vs Spurs. Athough Spurs have bought in some good players in the transfer window I am reasonably optimistic. Our pre-season form has been great. After pre-season training in Portugal, last Saturday we beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-0 at the Gtech, and a week earlier we beat Rennes 2-4. We have made some signings and let a few players go, most out on loan. This is what we have done so far transfer

Last game of the season away to Liverpool. If we win and the other results go our way then we are in Europe next season. As everyone knows, the last thing I want is European football as our squad does not have enough quality or depth and our league form would suffer and we would be odds-on to be relegated. Yet our performance against Palace and today against Liverpool, in particular the first 40 minutes of the first half, was so poor that if we play like that next season then

Although this was the penultimate match of the PL season, all the Brentford players were already on their hols. An abysmal perfomance (relegation form) at the Gtech against Crystal Palace until the last 15 minutes (this included the 13 minutes of added-on time). We were 0-1 down after 6 mins with a very soft pen given away by Kelleher. Then they hit the woodwork twice and had other chances to score. We got a very lucky equaliser in the 40th minute. A cross from the right was