Sunday 3 May 2015

A PUB AT EACH CORNER

With Bournemouth in the Premier League, playing in a stadium of only 12,000 capacity, another minnow has a chance of joining the south coast side and Watford in the top league next season. Brentford now play at Griffin Park another small venue, with a capacity of 12,300, hardly enough seats to pay the club's way. The ground is unique with originally a pub at every corner of the ground. Now there are only three. The Princess Royal pub was once run by the club.

Founded in 1889 the club formed after the local council opened “a place for recreation in the town”. A vote by members at the Oxford and Cambridge Pub in October that year decided to play soccer and not rugby, the first match taking place in November against a Kew XI. In 1904 as members of the Southern League the club moved to Griffin Park.After the war the club joined the Football League Division Three and quickly they found themselves in Division One just before World War 2.

After various successes and failures, the Club was bought by the Supporters' Trust, only to be bought out by Matthew Benham in 2012. The club has announced a move to a new 20,000 Stadium on a 7.6 acre at a regeneration site in Lionel Road, by 2016. Having joined the Championship in 2013-14 manager, Mark Warburton, has seen his team gain considerable success, though his future is not entirely secure. Considering his success, he should be given a knighthood.
Let's see how Brentford fare in the play offs.


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