Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast
The fifth season of the Brentford Football Club podcast, by and for American fans. Each week guests will join us to discuss things around the GTech as we navigate a difficult fifth season in the Premier League.
They're all difficult.
Episodes
140 episodes
Draw Specialists Strike Again!
If you're hunting for a place in Europe, it's definitely two points dropped. If you watched the match maybe you're wondering how we got the one. Crazy days at the Gtech as Brentford's last home match ends with a wimper, then with a ...
Seventh Heaven
We apparently have an apartment leased out for the year in 7th place, and we move back there this week with a convincing win over relegation threatened West Ham. The end of the year is always fascinating, as little events become blown out...
Drama at Old Trafford!
This is why we enjoy this great game! Chances at both ends, a howling crowd, a match with ebbs and flows of dominance. Sometimes in the Premier League you're quality isn't there, and you win somehow anyway.Sometimes you play ...
Brentford at Fan Fest in Tampa!
Instead of trying to unpack a dismal morning at home to Fulham, we focus on the glorious events of the latest Fan Fest. Our correspondent in the field Michel Cowdry has come back to ASFB Towers to report on the impressive show that Brentf...
Every match is a battle
...and eventually if you only have a small army that takes its toll. Greville Waterman and Tim Searls are in the studio to talk about an Everton match that will live long in the memory. Somehow we're still seventh (it seems we've be...
The Break comes at just the right time
A beleaguered Brentford gets a point at Elland Road - a remarkable feat of some brave and determined athletes at the end of their limits. We get to that match eventually, but first lets have a wonderful conversation with Bruce Muni (he of...
A Cup Hangover
Brentford appear to be staggering a bit, with an injury-hit squad and some weary legs after a grueling season. But not here at ASFB Towers, where we have the luxury of bringing Glenn Houlihan in off the bench, which strengthens us incredi...
Focus on the league
Yah, I'd rather be us. But being so, so close to a semi-final (you know we'd have beaten Leeds at home!) and a trip to Wembley in the FA Cup... Still, I'd rather be us.We are so lucky to get Michel Cowdrey back into ASF...
You can see how good we've been all the way from Texas
Michael White joins Tim and Greville in the studio to embark on a conversation about the crazy win against Burnley and then the meek draw at Bournemouth. But this podcast is much more than that. What you'll hear is a free-flow...
Arsenal and Cup shocks avoided. Just.
Thanks for tuning in as we range over a busy week of football, from the Thursday match against the top rated team in all of English football to four days later doing combat with the seventh best team in the National League North; from Champions...
Bees vs Saltdean!
The Brentford women have a season that in many ways has exceeded even their own lofty expectations! The woman are out in front in their league and looking at the possibility of promotion. This Sunday they play #2 in Saltdean, and i...
Villa and Newcastle jobs done, it's on to Arsenal
The pure fantasy continues unabated as we follow a gutsy win at Villa Park with our first win at Newcastle since 1934. Greville Waterman and Tim Searls are in studio to look back at a match at St. James Park that had more improbable twist...
The Alamo
Dustin Senor is back in the studio finally, and along with Greville Waterman we're talking the crazy and memorable events that occurred at Villa Park last Sunday. It had a bit of everything, this one!
Trotta!! Yes, we're going there (but not where you think)
On the 13th anniversary of a memorable day at Griffin Park we remember the Rosler team that almost pulled off a remarkable Cup shock for the ages. New York's own Charlie Corr is here to add much needed expertise to a discussion of a...
Victory in Defeat
I've been asking since the start of the season "who are we", and this week we found out: We're quite good. Has there been a more gloriously played defeat in our history? We battered Chelsea 0-2! The rest of this season w...
Up for the Cup
Adam Bishop is in the studio with Greville Waterman and Tim Searls this week. What a week it's been. A thorough demolition of Sunderland, and a smooth win at Hillsborough in the FA Cup. Brentford is just so much fun to support...
A Very Festive Season
What a difference a few weeks makes. After the capitulations at Spurs and Man City it could have gone so wrong. Yet here we are in the new year 7th after the demolition of Everton in their new building.In the studio to discus...
Three points makes all things right
Forget it's Wolves, forget the capitulation at City. Three points, 12th, looking down at Spurs, 10 points from trouble. What blip?To discuss the changing emotions a win brings are Glenn Houlihan and Greville Waterman.<...
Knives out?
Blip? Worrying trend? Managerial crisis? All of those? Something entirely else? History only will judge, but to try to make sense of this draw with Leeds the pod reaches out to our expert from Iowa Glenn Houlihan.&...
Don't Panic
Seasons have highs and lows. Will Canu and Greville Waterman join to find a host of silver linings and reasons to be cheerful after a tough, tough week. We probe the psychology of home and away mindsets, we think about squad depth a...
The North London derbies, with North London Bee
Burnley swept aside (though it didn't feel that easy for about 85 minutes!), we look ahead to the small matter of a week featuring Arsenal and "Thomas Frank's Spurs". Somehow the Brentford Miracle is rolling again, and we're starting to l...
The Quarter-Pole Podcast
Greville and Tim have to discuss a disappointing Saturday down in South London, but then we're on to a bigger conversation about what we know about Brentford Football Club after a quarter of the season gone. Are we on the right tra...
What a week
You follow up wins against Liverpool and Grimsby Town with an amazing, fantastic, engaging guest who describes it all with insight and character. A podcaster's dream!Alison Roberts is in the studio to talk about her Brentford exper...