Championship Playoff Final

Said before. Torn here.

Brentford are to me know a local club and one I admire for what they've done the past few years.

Swansea my local club when I was stationed in South Wales for 4 years. And I have a fair few mates who are passionate supporters of the Swans.

Danny @1
I can't find a link to watch the game, however, 20 or so minutes gone and Brentford has a two-goal lead, nearly making it three when Toney hit the bar.

2-0 to Brentford. Looks like Steve Cooper might be free after all!

Brentford are good for it as well Barry.

Swansea been all over the place so far.

Forget Cooper. Keep an eye on the Brentford Manager. Danish and has brought in a lot of good young Danish talent; a country that punches well above it's weight in terms of producing good quality footballers.

I can't sit still. One of my best mates has been a Brentford supporter for 60 years. He's attended some of their 9 playoff losses. He won't answer the phone at the moment, understandably, but if this result holds up we'll be on the line for an hour!

Steve #3, I'm taking you to Tasker for bringing that up.

By the way, Don Hutchison is absolutely terrific as the touchline commentator for ESPN+. Hilarious quips.

Some bloke called Steve Cooper from Swansea isn't doing very well, is he! 😁😁😁

Well Rob, he's always got his looks to fall back on!😂

Eeeeeekk!!

Jeff, Cooper looks like a TV ad for a diarrhea treatment.

Good news, last time Brentford played in he top flight Everton won the league. Bad news, a world war broke out after the season ended.

Seems like a reasonable trade-off, Kieran. I'll take it.

Long before I actually knew his name, I always thought Steve Cooper was Graham Potter's brother.

Mike

President Jie of China seems up for it, just got to get Everton on board

Kieran @12
Brentford was still in the top flight after WW2 but got relegated in the first season back 1946/47. I think Everton ended up tenth.

Rob, their names are forever and irreversibly linked. We will never again think of one without the other. Like Abbott and Costello.

Barry

Well damn, their wikipedia page omitted their brief top flight come back after being relegated in 39. So here's the plan, they come up, we win the league, the go down, war, then when they bounce back we know the war is over.

Incidentally Barry Hesketh, I want to compliment you as you often pop up with interesting news stories and tid bits the rest of us seem to miss. FIFA, ESL, etc. You're kind of like my sub news provider within ToffeeWeb. Keep it up mate.

Russ Abbott and Elvis Costello that's some duo that I'd have paid to see live. I am being silly Mike G, I'm old enough to know who Abbott and Costello were, but they were never my cup of tea.

Rob, I thought Cooper was Potter's Grandad, he looks like Albert Steptoe “dropping the kids off”.

Cheers Kieran, good plan!

Not mine either, Barry. But then again, neither are Cooper and Potter!

Kieran #18, don't you know Barry's true identity?

Hesketh is an alias, a nom de plume.

He's really Barry Horne. Insider info personified.

Barry/Mike

You obviously never saw the masterpiece that is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Robbed of an Oscar by a Laurence Olivier film about some Danish dude with mummy issues whose Dad died.

YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

I'm in tears here.

Welcome to the Prem, Bees. Happy to have you.

Delighted for them too Mike, and my late great Uncle who was a Bees fanatic. Lovely new ground too, play nice football, just hope they don't perform when we play them.

Brentford are going to beat us in Aug/Sep and thoroughly deserve the victory.

I can just see it.

Kieran, I've gotta figure out a way to bring my mate over to Goodison for the Blues-Bees game. He's in fragile health, but I'd really love to make it happen for him.

Of course they are, Lee. Of course they are!!

I've already got odds on them being relegated next season. Sorry Mike!

Pretty sure you're right, Rob. Even with the promotion they're financially skint, as you lot would say. But even if it's just the one season, it will be glorious.

Agree, Mike. Also a new ground to visit, although I've been to Griffin Park, their old stadium.

Did you make all four pubs, Rob?

My mate claims he did it in his youth, completing the circuit before kickoff. Unfortunately he couldn't then make it to his seat. Missed the game completely.

Only the one, Mike. Don't ask me which one it was though.

All that heartbreak doesn't hurt quite so much right now, I'll bet. Brentford are now officially in the big time, and well bloody done as well.

It'd be 'Everton that' to draw them early doors and give them their first ever Premier League points wouldn't it?

Well, it would!

Having finished behind a promoted side each of the last three seasons, I'm not exactly putting six points in pencil next to our names for next season yet either. Really looking forward to playing them though and hoping the Bees supporters are properly enjoying themselves tonight, wherever they are.
I think I speak for all Evertonians when I say how happy I am for them, at least until we start dropping points against them anyway. Well done again Brentford!

Derek

To paraphrase Arthur C Clarke on Brentford next year "All these points are yours, except Everton. Attempt no victory there."

Steve Cooper is actually the son of former Premier League referee Keith Cooper, one of the better ones.

Amazing what a big investor can do.

This team will probably do better than Leeds in their first year with one or two additions. Top scorers in the Championship and they have a half-decent defence too.

Watching his team play, I thought his dad might Tommy Cooper.

And here's me thinking he was related to Harry Redknapp.

Toney looks a handful. Can he do it in the top flight?

Interesting seeing all the accolades on here.

They play a similar system to Carlo!!

I don't think Ivan Toney is leaving there anytime soon the way he was pointing to the badge at the end.