Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast

...unless you're a "Big" club obviously.   The rules aren't 'different', just malleable apparently. Brent James and Bill Ireland drop into the ASFB studios all the way from Boone, North Carolina to talk Arsenal and Burnley.   I really cannot believe how nice all the Brentford people I meet are.  Honestly.  And I'm also amazed at the passion this little West Londo...

Brentford plays a wonderfully topsy turvy match against Chelsea, a match we could have, and maybe should have, won.  A match that Chelsea could have, and maybe should have, won.  Yah, that sort of match.   Greville Waterman and I discuss this and look ahead to the daunting task of taking on an in-form Arsenal.  We disagree on the use of the term 'free hit', but agree it'll take a mi...

Brian O'Connell joins the podcast this week as we look forward to a tough West London derby against Chelsea.  We're trying to stay positive and progressive, but some West Ham discussion was inevitable.  Painful though it was. This week's memory lane moments feature Telford and the end of the 2002 season.  We specialize in grim memories, here at ASFB Towers. How do you play Chelsea a...

Don't panic.  We're okay.  We've just come through a stretch of Spurs, Man City, Wolves, Liverpool, Man City...and we're fine.  Lots of reason to be happy even! Glenn Houlihan visits the studios of ASFB from his Iowa location and, along with Greville Waterman, inspires a wonderful conversation about where we've been and where we're going.  Where else to you get to hea...

Steve D'Amico was a sensational contributor last season and is back this time, being once again sensational.  Along with Greville Waterman, we look back at a refreshing and encouraging three points away.   So many talking points from a truly entertaining match. The reason you always wanted to be in the Premier League (but never imagined it actually occurring) is to say things like, "...a...

What a mad season.  We get beat up at home and I'm...pretty pleased.  We discover we might have a first-rate keeper, we have a team of character and grit, we gave an assembled all-world team a real battle.  I do love supporting this club. Charlie Corr, of the New York Church of the Red Lion, joins Greville Waterman and me for a really fun discussion of the match, of where we are, and of the d...

We here at Across the Seas but Forever Bees have met so many fascinating people, all drawn to the Brentford story and to the ethos of the club.  It just is a club that good people find naturally.   This episode of the pod features the engaging Mike Sacco who, like so many Bees fans, is finding the club and the culture just for them.   Along with the returning Greville Waterman we dive into the str...

Beating Forest, and drinking from the cup of their salty tears, was amazing.  The rising panic of no wins in what seemed like months has subsided.  To have Ivan Toney back, along with a host of others, has cheered the Gtech right up. Today we talk with Trevor Inns, who runs the Griffin Park Grapevine website and is such a insightful and interesting guest.  To new fans of Brentford FC:  If you&apos...

We're back! The staff at Across the Seas but Forever Bees takes their winter holidays and it all goes south on the pitch.  Brentford have lost five straight, and has spent what seems like hours on the pitch not getting out of the 3rd round of the FA Cup.  But a bright Ivan Toney-shaped light is starting to come on with the new year, some new faces are joining the club (one arriving pre-crocke...

Three wonderfully won points against Luton are drown out by the loss at Brighton on Wednesday.  The hits keep coming, as another unreplaceable player heads to the list of long-term injuries.  We give thanks that we're managed by such a master, that we have players coming back, and that we have accumulated enough points to hopefully ride out the lean weeks to come.  It's not at all doom-a...

Remember when we used to dream of one-off Cup matches against 'teams like Arsenal'.  Now we play them with the remnants of a squad decimated by injury...and we're unlucky not to get something from the match.  A free-hit that didn't work out is the worst you can say about last Saturday.   Nolan and Greville Waterman are in the studios to discuss this and so much more, including...

...there's no real reason to discuss Liverpool at all.  Instead we talk his experiences around Griffin Park in the 1950s and 1960s.  Really.  What stories he has from a golden era of Brentford.  Players I've heard of, he saw live!  Greville Waterman and I sit at Malcolm's feet to hear stories of Tower, Cakebread, McDonald and many, many others. Whether you're a long-time Bee or...

If the designers of football dreamed up the perfect match for spectators, it would probably follow the script from last weekend:  Returning favorite scores, the home team falls behind, only to gloriously triumph in the end.  What a match we had with West Ham. Ben Clowney joins from Michigan (he's not originally from there) to talk about West Ham and to look ahead at the exciting Sunday fixtur...

Honestly, a decade ago if I told you we'd be sitting there looking down on the other three West London clubs (I can't bring myself to name them, not at Holloween).... A third win in a row at Stamford Bridge and once again the sun is out and the birds are singing.  Who was that on the ledge a few weeks ago talking panic and gloom??? Thank you for listening, thank you for the comments.  Th...

What's not to love?   Maupay reminds us why we were so in love with him a few years ago, VAR provides the talking points, crazy weather, 19 year old wonderkinds getting their debuts, three absolutely cracking goals, pirouetting midfield geniuses, a red card even.  It was a great day last Saturday down the olde Gtech. Michel Cowdrey checks in from Atlanta, and he has an AMAZING Brentford story...

There are so many reasons I'm proud to support Brentford Football Club, and Saturday was another reason.  The heart and resilience and guts shown by the (remaining) squad was quite something.  Last minute winners are a part of sport - great when you get one, dreadful when it happens to you. But under the circumstances, this was a great performance. To make sense of the chaos this week was Jay...

If we spend all my life in the top tier of English football (soccer for us Yanks), I'll never get used to the idea that we're playing at Old Trafford in a league match.   I hope you know enough about our history to wonder at that idea as well.  It's important that part of our club's DNA remains a humble acknowledgement of how far we've come. After a dreadful two weeks, we...

Look.  Everything is going to be okay.  And as they say, it helps if you talk about your problems. After a tumultuous 10 days or so, Glenn Houlihan and Greville Waterman help me and all of us come to terms with all that has occurred to our club.  It has been incredible how many blows the club has taken in September.  Welcome October! I certainly felt better after the podcast, and I hope it helps y...

This week we are lucky to get to talk to Oscar Thompson all the way from Hollywood about his long, painful journey as a Brentford fan.  I just love hosting this podcast because you meet people such as Oscar and hear their stories.  Honestly, if you don't enjoy the stories he and Greville have to tell, then...are you really a Brentford fan?  Yah, I said it. Eventually we get to the imminent cl...

The podcast is lucky this week to have Daniel Jennings in from Denver.   Daniel talks about his early, early morning rituals around Brentford Football Club...and something tells me that he could use some backup at the Bulldog Pub!   I think if you're a glass-half-full person you're looking at an unbeaten start, quality at every position, a genius manager and a frighteningly talented, you...

Cris Hellerstein is our guest, in to talk about her route to Brentford (hint:  Not Christian Ericksen's favourite match!), traveling to Atlanta to see the Bees live...and her remarkable impulse decision.  You'll have to listen to find out what that is. We discuss the Fulham match, which was almost (say it carefully) too easy, and we look forward to a chance to finally beat Crystal Palace...

Finally, after three years as the smarter, more knowledgeable of the pair of hosts, we get to know why Greville is on an American Brentford podcast.  It's an interesting discussion of where the club has been, who it is at heart...and then the payoff conversation about Greville's New York adventures. We discuss Spurs and look forward to old friends Fulham, including (or not) old friend Mi...

Taylor Dawson and Greville Waterman put on their prognosticator hats and we discuss the season, as we stand here just before the first weekend of matches.   I love this time of year...and can't wait for it all to begin again.   Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.

We are blessed to have Paul Buckle and Gary Blissett on the Brentford American podcast to discuss the wonderful preseason tour of the East Coast by the Bees.  I'm joined by John Kenkel and by Greville Waterman in this really quite wonderful conversation. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.

What a time to be a Brentford fan.   After two matches that have been about the performance and not about the result, we meet again to discuss 'how it's been for you'.  I'm really honored to have in Charlie Corr, who has played such a huge role in the Red Lion watch-parties and NYC Bees in general.  Also here is the always super-interesting Glenn Houlihan who gives some perspec...