Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast

If you're hunting for a place in Europe, it's definitely two points dropped.  If you watched the match maybe you're wondering how we got the one.  Crazy days at the Gtech as Brentford's last home match ends with a wimper, then with a bang. Sorting out our stumble to the finish line is Greville Waterman and Glenn Houlihan.  Absolutely a fascinating conversation about the ups and...

We apparently have an apartment leased out for the year in 7th place, and we move back there this week with a convincing win over relegation threatened West Ham.  The end of the year is always fascinating, as little events become blown out of all proportion as the points left dimish. Greville Waterman treks into the studio to talk about where was are and where we might be going, with a strong fini...

This is why we enjoy this great game!  Chances at both ends, a howling crowd, a match with ebbs and flows of dominance.  Sometimes in the Premier League you're quality isn't there, and you win somehow anyway. Sometimes you play one of your best matches of the season, and get nothing.   Here to help Tim and Greville figure out a match with with more twists and turns than the Maine coastli...

Instead of trying to unpack a dismal morning at home to Fulham, we focus on the glorious events of the latest Fan Fest.  Our correspondent in the field Michel Cowdry has come back to ASFB Towers to report on the impressive show that Brentford Football Club put on at Fan Fest.   Worth a listen this week not only for Michel's stories from Tampa but also for the outrageous picks our resident &ap...

...and eventually if you only have a small army that takes its toll.  Greville Waterman and Tim Searls are in the studio to talk about an Everton match that will live long in the memory.  Somehow we're still seventh (it seems we've been 7th since Christmas!), but with what's left of a depleted side running on fumes, can we stay there?   The small business of Harry Wilson and F*lhum...

A beleaguered Brentford gets a point at Elland Road - a remarkable feat of some brave and determined athletes at the end of their limits.  We get to that match eventually, but first lets have a wonderful conversation with Bruce Muni (he of the Church of the Red Lion) about his history as a Brentford fan.  Greville Waterman and Tim Searls can't help but going down some memory lanes along the w...

Brentford appear to be staggering a bit, with an injury-hit squad and some weary legs after a grueling season.  But not here at ASFB Towers, where we have the luxury of bringing Glenn Houlihan in off the bench, which strengthens us incredibly (he really should be a starter here).   All is not lost after a difficult month or so, and if you'd offered us 7th by mid-March we'd have be more t...

Yah, I'd rather be us.  But being so, so close to a semi-final (you know we'd have beaten Leeds at home!) and a trip to Wembley in the FA Cup...  Still, I'd rather be us. We are so lucky to get Michel Cowdrey back into ASFB Towers to discuss his slightly made football holiday, and to help us look forward to the Fan Fest coming up.   From there we're trying not to take the West...

Michael White joins Tim and Greville in the studio to embark on a conversation  about the crazy win against Burnley and then the meek draw at Bournemouth.  But this podcast is much more than that.  What you'll hear is a free-flowing conversation about where Brentford is and who Brentford is, about VAR (and ways maybe to improve it), and about the squad going forward during the injury plagued...

Thanks for tuning in as we range over a busy week of football, from the Thursday match against the top rated team in all of English football to four days later doing combat with the seventh best team in the National League North; from Champions League to the sixth tier of the English leagues.  And you know what?  They were both tough.  Different tough, but challenges all the same.   In the studio...

The Brentford women have a season that in many ways has exceeded even their own lofty expectations!   The woman are out in front in their league and looking at the possibility of promotion.  This Sunday they play #2 in Saltdean, and it's at the Gtech!   There is so much at stake in this match, and it should be incredible.   Gary Enstone and Richard Merritt are in the studio to talk the rise a...

The pure fantasy continues unabated as we follow a gutsy win at Villa Park with our first win at Newcastle since 1934.  Greville Waterman and Tim Searls are in studio to look back at a match at St. James Park that had more improbable twists than a Harry Potter novel.  Confess:  Who rubbed that genie lamp and wished for all this 15 years ago?   The small task of Arsenal is up ahead of us, but we&ap...

Dustin Senor is back in the studio finally, and along with Greville Waterman we're talking the crazy and memorable events that occurred at Villa Park last Sunday.  It had a bit of everything, this one!   Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.

On the 13th anniversary of a memorable day at Griffin Park we remember the Rosler team that almost pulled off a remarkable Cup shock for the ages.  New York's own Charlie Corr is here to add much needed expertise to a discussion of a less profitable day at The Gtech and, along with Greville Waterman, looks ahead to the challenging trip to Villa Park. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from yo...

I've been asking since the start of the season "who are we", and this week we found out:  We're quite good.  Has there been a more gloriously played defeat in our history?  We battered Chelsea 0-2!  The rest of this season will be a wild ride, but it's going to be fun supporting these players and this manager, and of course this club. Along to celebrate our success (all th...

Adam Bishop is in the studio with Greville Waterman and Tim Searls this week.  What a week it's been.  A thorough demolition of Sunderland, and a smooth win at Hillsborough in the FA Cup.  Brentford is just so much fun to support. Shout out to the Seattle Brentford Supporters Club! Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.

What a difference a few weeks makes.  After the capitulations at Spurs and Man City it could have gone so wrong.  Yet here we are in the new year 7th after the demolition of Everton in their new building. In the studio to discuss all these holiday gifts are Glenn Houlihan and Greville Waterman.  What a time to be a Bee! Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me...

Forget it's Wolves, forget the capitulation at City.  Three points, 12th, looking down at Spurs, 10 points from trouble.  What blip? To discuss the changing emotions a win brings are Glenn Houlihan and Greville Waterman. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.

Blip?  Worrying trend?  Managerial crisis?  All of those?  Something entirely else?  History only will judge, but to try to make sense of this draw with Leeds the pod reaches out to our expert from Iowa Glenn Houlihan.  Along with Greville Waterman and Tim Searls the mini-crisis, or whatever this is, is unpacked. Go all-in again Man City Wednesday?  Save it for a 'must win' against Wolve...

Seasons have highs and lows.  Will Canu and Greville Waterman join to find a host of silver linings and reasons to be cheerful after a tough, tough week.  We probe the psychology of home and away mindsets, we think about squad depth as the January window comes into view, and we try to not let Spurs get in our heads. There's no question this wasn't the performances we had hoped for, but t...

Burnley swept aside (though it didn't feel that easy for about 85 minutes!), we look ahead to the small matter of a week featuring Arsenal and "Thomas Frank's Spurs".  Somehow the Brentford Miracle is rolling again, and we're starting to look up rather than down at this table.   Which will never get old.   Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - plea...

Greville and Tim have to discuss a disappointing Saturday down in South London, but then we're on to a bigger conversation about what we know about Brentford Football Club after a quarter of the season gone.   Are we on the right track?  Are we in a false position at 12th in the table, or is this who we rightly are this season?  We try to make some sense of the most turbulent off-season and f...

You follow up wins against Liverpool and Grimsby Town with an amazing, fantastic, engaging guest who describes it all with insight and character.  A podcaster's dream! Alison Roberts is in the studio to talk about her Brentford experience, and to add knowledge, humor and personality our summary of a wonderful October.  Such a pleasure to talk to yet another amazing American fan, which I hope...

Abhi Goyal from the NYC Massive down at the Red Lion visits the pod to talk with Greville and Tim about the surprisingly comfortable win against West Ham, the state of the Bees, and a look forward to Liverpool and Grimsby. Just discussing Josh DaSilva again as a member of the club is the feel-good moment of the year. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at...

A week of reflection and anticipation, as the international hiatus finally gives way to a Monday of Brentford.  Greville and I are equal parts eager and anxious as we look ahead to West Ham.  No question, after all the players out and with a new novice manager the questions as to our ceiling and floor dominate our thoughts.   Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please em...