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BEES UNITED NEWSLETTER
SEPTEMBER 2021
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The new Bees United website home page says it loud and proud: ‘ We are Premier League’ and after the 2-0 victory at Wolves who can doubt it now. In this month’s edition we celebrate that win, we report on how even Cabinet ministers are talking about us, we hear from inside the COVID bubble on how being in the Premier League affects our medical team and we ask if 31 fans across 3 generations in 10 locations around England is the biggest Bees family.
 

WHAT LIVERPOOL EXPECT FROM BRENTFORD
The Liverpool TV team came to Brentford to make a great 5 minute video about what their fans should expect in the televised Premier League game. They spent two days in the area trying to find out more about the Bees.

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WE ARE MOST DEFINITELY PREMIER LEAGUE NOW
When even BBC Match of Day presenters are purring about Brentford we know we’ve made a mark in the Premier League. For contributing editor Greville Waterman it was a ‘perfect day’ as Brentford got their first away win in the top flight for over 7 decades.

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YOU CAN CALL ME ZANKA
His full name is Mathias Jattah-Njie Jørgensen but you can call him Zanka because it seems everybody else does. The Danish centre-back made his debut as a sub at Wolves and as a starter against Oldham. But who exactly is Zanka? Our Danish correspondent reports.

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SAFE STANDING MAY FINALLY BE COMING
The long campaign by fans groups for some safe standing at Premier League and Championship grounds has taken a big step forward. The Government has announced that from January 1 some clubs will allow fans to stand in what are called ‘rail seats’ as part of a pilot scheme. What does this mean for Brentford?

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WHY BRENTFORD IS THE TALK OF WESTMINSTER
One minute DCMS Secretary Oliver Dowden is meeting BU and BIAS at the stadium saying Brentford is a ‘model club’. The next his successor is saying nice things about us too. It suggests the Government is about to promote a Bees United innovation.

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BRENTFORD 0 BRIGHTON 1
The accepted wisdom after the home defeat to Brighton was that in the Premier League you have to take your chances. Bryan Mbeumo had the best of them. Contributing editor Bill Hagerty saw our unbeaten run come to an end.

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IS THIS PART OF THE BIGGEST BEES FAMILY?


We talk a lot about ‘the Brentford family’ but how about this for an actual Bees family: 31 loyal supporters from 3 generations in 10 different locations in the UK plus a few in Australia. It all started with a fan who was there at the very beginning of the club.

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WHAT PROMOTION HAS MEANT FOR OUR MEDICAL TEAM


Our latest ‘unsung hero’ is Brentford’s Head of Medical Neil Greig.From inside the club’s COVID bubble he tells us of all the new challenges that have come with promotion and looks back to the very different way it was a decade ago in League One.

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MEET MR BRENT FORD, YES THAT'S RIGHT MR BRENT FORD


Every Bees supporter has heard of Peter ‘Mr Brentford’ Gilham. But how many know a Bees fan whose name is Mr Brent Ford. We tracked him down.

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BEES NEWS IN BRIEF
  • At the Football Business Awards Brentford’s Jon Varney won Championship CEO of the year.
  • A new club shop will open at the junction of Lionel Road South and the A4 in time for the Chelsea game.
  • A new supply of club strip shirts will have arrived by then.
  • The club is reviewing the ban on the sale of alcohol in the away end.
  • Bees United is sending copies of our book about the new stadium to those members who joined before our deadline and haven’t yet had a copy.
  • For the Oldham game BU hosted fans from the Boundary Park Alert System podcast who are campaigning against the club owner.

FROM OUR MEMBERS

We always like to hear from our members. This month we’ve got an article sent in by Ralph Tebby celebrating his '50 years as a Bee'. From a Bees fan in Brisbane, Australia came this picture. His caption says ‘To see the Bees playing in the Premier was on my bucket list, and I'm hoping my number plate my has gone up in value too!

COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST

Brentford’s Community Sports Trust is an important part of the fund-raising appeal by our unsung hero of the month Neil Greig. He is ‘Running for Rob’ in memory of Rob Rowan to provide the young people of Brentford and the surrounding area with a combination of life saving cardiac screening, defibrillator equipment for sports and educational facilities plus the training required for staff to use this equipment. The Trust will work with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to deliver that.

IMAGE OF THE MONTH

This month we’ve chosen a sequence of images shot at Wolves by club photographer Paul Dennis. The first shows an enterprising young Bees fan holding up signs in English and German asking for Vitaly Janelt’s shirt and the rest show what happened next.

 

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