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With the 2022/23 season now behind us the time is nigh to look forward to the new season in August. As a new season dawns the 92 teams in the league system gets shuffled around a bit. The most eye-catching of these shuffles being Luton Town being promoted to the Premier League. Burnley’s Turf MoorContinue reading “The 92 Shuffle”

Just wanted to take a minute to congratulate Manchester City on their victory at Wembley over the weekend and their upcoming treble that they will rubber stamp with victory over Internationale Milano in Istanbul this coming Saturday evening. After all this is Man City and Inter finished a distant 3rd in Serie A this season,Continue reading “Treble Incoming?”

Sunday 28th May 2023, Premier League, Gtech Community Stadium, Brentford vs Manchester City To know that my beloved Bees had nothing hanging on the final game of the season, for the second successive season, was a glorious feeling. This time round things could get even better for us though, as we still harboured an outsideContinue reading “So Close, Yet So Far”

That is not a clickbait title Ladies and Gentlemen. After beating Coventry City 6-5 on penalties at Wembley yesterday evening Luton Town will be playing Premier League football for the first time next season. Little Kenilworth Road, with only a 10,356 capacity, missed out on being an inaugural Premier League stadium by a single seasonContinue reading “LUTON ARE PREMIER LEAGUE!!”

Southampton have been down for a while, it just took till 13th May for it to be confirmed. The other places in next season’s championship have yet to be filled, with Leeds United, Leicester City and Everton fighting to avoid taking those remaining two spots. It is the Merseysiders who have their fate in theirContinue reading “Last Chance Saloon”

As the 2022/23 Premier League season draws to it’s close Man City are champions once more and their cross-city rivals returned to the top 4 after taking last season off. They have been joined at the European top table next season by Arsenal, who have been absent since 2016/17 under Arsene Wenger, and Newcastle United.Continue reading “The Final Place”

Wednesday 15th March 2023: Premier League: St. Mary’s: Southampton vs Brentford As I returned to the city of my university days, for the first time in years I was expecting to see my beloved bees swagger to a simple victory, against a Saints team rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table and seeminglyContinue reading “Divine Intervention”

Saturday 20th May 2023: Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: Spurs vs Brentford As the end of the season hooves into view Brentford are in the privileged position of having nothing to worry about. Fears of succumbing to second season syndrome were banished months ago and our hopes of going on a European tour next seasonContinue reading “Getting Spursy”

Tonight Sheffield Wednesday booked their place in the League One playoff final at Wembley Stadium on Monday 29th May 2023. If you had written a script for how they managed it and submitted it to a movie studio they would have thrown it out without a second though, cause ‘no-one would ever believe it’ butContinue reading “The Miracle Of Hillsborough”

Saturday 14th May 2023: Premier League: Gtech Community Stadium: Brentford vs West Ham United Having beaten AZ Alkmaar 2-1 in the 1st leg of the Europa Conference semi-final less than 72 hours ago Hammer’s fans made the short trip to west London rivals Brentford in extremely high spirits. They left with their spirits significantly loweredContinue reading “Broken Hammers”