The Beesotted Brentford Pride of West London Podcast

Join Billy Grant, Dave Lane, Savvy Bee, Matt The Allard and Liberal Nick as they sit down to discuss the polices for a new, and successful Brentford. It’s as quiet as a mouse out there. Players, managers, agents and well just about everyone is on holiday. Except not everyone … as it’s election time. And Beesotted got hold of the electoral candidates for the Brentford FC manor to hear the policies...

Third up in our End of Season Bees-Up Podcast series brings all the players - Billy Manuel, Graham Benstead , Francis Joseph and Gary Roberts - together at the end of the session for a hilarious Q&A session with the fans in the house. With the summer fast approaching, 90 Brentford fans joined the Dave Lane and Billy Grant from Beesotted and a bunch of Brentford legends - Gary Roberts, Francis...

Second Up in our End of Season Bees-Up Podcast series is Billy Manuel and Graham Benstead - two players from the Brentford Championship team of 1992 - with tales aplenty from their very successful time at Griffin Park. With the summer fast approaching, 90 Brentford fans joined the Dave Lane and Billy Grant from Beesotted and a bunch of Brentford legends - Gary Roberts, Francis Joseph, Billy Manuel...

First up is Gary Roberts and Francis Joseph - a footballing double act if ever there is one. Theres two guys were hilarious. Forming a lethal striking partnership back in the 80s playing in the team with the killer midfield of Stan Bowles, Terry Hurlock and Chris Kamara, you could see that the Roberts/Joseph bond was still there 30 years later. They had the audience in stitches - cracking joke aft...

The season is over. This week we are joined by Brentford FC midfielder Reece Cole talking about life in the B Team … graduation to the First team … and looking forward to Brentford’s match against Manchester City at Griffin Park on Monday 15th May. - KO 7pm What better excuse for the Beesotted crew to gather in the Cross Keys Pub in Stamford Brook, Hammersmith and celebrate yet another Top 10 seas...

Final match of the season. Blackburn needed a win badly to avoid relegation. Forest & Birmingham fans were begging a Brentford win. Blackburn started on the front foot. And ended up 3-1 winners. But still got relegated. We spoke to Bees & Blackburn fans after the match in the pub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave Lane, Liberal Nick and Jim Levack chew the Bees fat in the virtual boozer this week to discuss the draw at Fulham, those bloody clapper things, the end of season blues, the Directors of Football and the summer’s tranfer policy, conspiracy theories about Brentford’s role in Nottingham Forest or Blackburn Rovers’ relegation and a look back at the end of season Beesotted Social Club knees up las...

Ex Brentford analyst Ted Knutson joined Darren Fletcher and Jermaine Jenas on 5 Live to discuss how he was part of a team working on owner Mathew Benham's strategy of incorporating analytics to indentify players - many of them under the radar - as one part of Brentford's scouting 's system - alongside traditional scouting - in his time at the club. This podcast sits alongside an intere...

Fulham needed a win to guarantee playoffs. Brentford were just happy to be there. 5000 Brentford fans had a great day out as Fulham were on tender hooks the whole game. And they went one up. Controlled the first half. But a Bentley penalty save turned the game and Nico Yennaris equalised for the Bees before half time. Second half was a different story. Bees gave Fulham a few scares but in the end...

Beesotted caught up with ex-Brentford player Billy Manuel to chat bout the 25 year anniversary of Brentford’s 4-0 win against Fulham. Head butting opponents. Comedians and of course pit bulls. Billy will be a guest at the Beesotted Pride of West London End of Season Bees-Up alongside Francis Joseph, Gary Roberts and Graham Benstead at the Drayton Court Hotel on Sun 30th April. Get your tickets by...

The final West London derby of the season is upon us. And two teams in fine form meet under slightly different circumstances. Fulham - off the of a 4-1 away win at Huddersfield - are looking to cement a place in the playoffs with a win against West London rivals Brentford. Whereas Brentford - off the back of a 3-1 win over QPR - are i relax mode as there is no pressure for them whatsoever except f...

The West London Derby was on. Brentford we're off the back of some fine performances. Whereas QPR were in a pretty woeful run. And it was the Bees who took this Derby by the scruff of the neck - winning 3-1 with Jota scoring a brace - his second goal a contender for goal of the season. A double over QPR. Who would have thought it eh. We spoke to #QPR and #BrentfordFC fans after the match in th...

Clive Whittingham from QPR blog Loft For Words joins the Beesotted crew at The Banker Pub on The River Thames near Monument for this week's pre-QPR podcast. And on the menu this week - The Crucifixion of Derby County over the Easter weekend and what players can you remember who were initially crucified but then resurrected. Brighton are promoted. But what is the cost of promoton with The Albio...

Brentford & Barnsley - two similar teams going head to head. And Barnsley went one up before the Bees equalised late on in the first half. Bees missed a penalty second half as they upped the ante and started playing football. Bonham making his league debut pulled off some fine saves. We spoke to Bees and #BarnsleyFc fans in the pub after the game #brentfordfc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Derby were chasing a fast fading playoff dream. The Bees were looking to recover from a lacklustre performance at Cardiff. But it was Brentford's game from the get go as they pretty much played Derby off the park for 90 minutes. We spoke to Bees & Derby fans after the match Join us at the end of season Bees-Up with Francis Joseph, Gary Roberts, Graham Benstead and Billy Manuel plus magicia...

This week’s jam-packed Pride of West London Podcast we talk about the rumours surrounding a proposed buy-in to Brentford’s from a Chinese consortium, Kevin O’Connor’s EFL Tom Finney award, the defeat at Cardiff, this week’s Easter Bank Holiday fixtures including a chat with a Punjabi Ram, there’s an interview with Brentford Champion ‘keeper Graham Benstead, plus more details of Beesotted’s end of...

Twas a lovely sunny day in South Wales as Brentford came to Cardiff in search of 3 points to continue their wining run. And Bees went 1-0 up at half time as Canos scored again to get the Bees chasing the game. But two corners undid the Bees in a game of two halves as the Bees went down 2-1. Tired Bees? Or on the beach? We spoke to Bees fans & Cardiff fans after the match in the pub #ccfc #bren...

Another week, another couple of wins as the Bees racked up two 2-0 victories against Bristol City and Leeds United within 3 days of each other to continue their winning streak. But it was the performances that had everyone talking from fans in the pub to Leeds managed Gary Monk who claimed that "outstanding" Bees were one of the best sides he had seen this season. The Beesotted Crew met...

Absolutely teefing tremendous. Bees were on a roll. After a dominating display in the 2-0 win against Bristol City in the previous match, Brentford were hoping to maintain the high standards in the second half. And the players didn’t let the side down as the West London side totally outclassed their Yorkshire opponents in the first half to see them two to the good. Second half, Leeds tried to get...

Bees players were back from international break refreshed. Bristol City needed the points to stave off the relegation wolves. Bees started brightly and found themselves 2-0 up at half time before moving into cruise control. We spoke to fans in the game after the match Catch Gary Roberts, Francis Joseph, Graham Benstead, Billy Manuel at the Beesotted Pride of West London Bees-Up - http://bit.ly/2kk...

Bees fans were treated to a great bit of news this week when it was announced, as predicted on last week’s Pride of West London Beesotted Podcast, that Alan Judge was set to sign a new contract at Brentford. Dave Lane, Savvy Bee, Matt Allard and The Dutchman hooked up in the Prince Blucher Twickenham Green to talk all things BFC, plus Video Technology, the full end of season Beesotted Social Club...

Following Brentford’s never-to-be-forgotten comeback win at Burton on Saturday, the Beesotted crew were in fine mood at The Prince Blucher pub on Twickenham Green to relive the Pirelli Stadium vibe, to talk Brentford home brew, Alan Judge new contract rumours, Brentford come-backs and lots, lots more! In the boozer were:Dave LaneLiberal Nick CarthewMarkBMartin The Dutchman Holland 30th April Remin...

Burton away. We have no words. Rubbish first half. 3-1 down. Brilliant second half. Bees win 5-3. Quality day out all around. We talk to brentford and Burton fans in the pub after the match #bafc #brentfordfc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After two poor results against Huddersfield and Wolves, The Bees were off on their first visit to Burton to reignite their season in an attempt to gun for a top 10 Championship place. And the Beesotted crew were back on tour - meeting up at the historic Lamb and Flag pub in Covent Garden - to discuss all sorts. In the boozer: Billy GrantDave LaneLiberal Nick CarthewCrumble Chris Fairbank who discu...

Brentford we're playing their 4th match in a pretty short time. Wolves came into this game low in confidence but with a real will to win. And despite going ahead Brentford were in the back foot all game as Wolves took the game to them - winning with two late goals. We spoke to Brentford and Wolves fans after the game #wwfc #BrentfordFC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...