Some days you should just stay in bed, some games put you to sleep, some days things just don’t go your way.
Yesterday was one of those days and one of those games.
The date had been etched into my diary ever since this season’s fixtures were announced last summer. The big home Derby against local rivals Fulham should have been a classic match and if we still had our safety at stake it might have been.
Unfortunately, by kick-off neither team had anything to play for and it showed…
Far be it for me to agree with the away fans, but after the match when a couple of them said “out of 10, that was a 1” all I could do was nod.
As I was leaving the stadium at full-time a few of the other quotes I heard were:
“That was embarrassing”
“What a crap game”
“Could’ve been carboard cut-outs”
and my personal favourites
“That was a waste of my Saturday”
and
“You didn’t have to sit through 90 minutes of that shit” – to the stewards telling us to relax as we waited for access to the platforms at Kew Bridge after the match.
Perhaps Gary Lineker summed it up best on MOTD:
“the clue was that Friday night’s 1-1 draw with Luton and Everton went ahead of it”.
No-one who sat through the full 90 can argue with that.
There was not a single moment that looked like breaking the deadlock and saving the 17,090 souls in the stands from being subjected to the first 0-0 we have hosted against that lot since 1949.
Whilst Bryan Mbuemo smashed a shot off the bar for the Bees that was the closest either team came to making the net bulge, as the visitors in particular seemed intent of crushing the faces of fans in row Z.
The worst offender for the Cottagers was Raul Jimenez who ballooned over from just 10 yards out, after a cross had deflected to him in acres of space towards the end of this snooze-fest.
Mbuemo’s wait for his 50th Brentford goal goes on as Ivan Toney, who I’m told was on the pitch all game, sees his run of goalless games reach double figures for the first time in 5 years.
In a season that will not live long in the memory of most Brentford fans this was a game many will be happy to forget.
The Football tourist 