Beesotted1000+1 - Pandemic, Promotion and The Premier League in 1000+1 Episodes

Beesotted is 1000 episodes old. Happy birthday to us. And in good old Beesotted style, the Beesotted crew went down the pub - The Castle Inn in Ealing - to celebrate fully And what a bumper podcast we have for you Im this episode, we talked about Brentford’s rise through the Championship that was halted somewhat by the Pandemic and how that changed everything Then there was coming out of the pandemic which coinsided with Brentford's promotion to the Premier League at Wembley Next was the Premier League Years with Brentford's new global fanbase and an outlook on football Where to next? Billy The Bee Grant and Dave Laney Lane are joined by a plethora of characters both in the pub and in the virtual joint with members of the original podcast crew of Matt The Allard Allard, Martin The Dutchman Holland and Sav Savvy Bee Kyriacou joining us for a few swift halves. Also joining us were relative newbies Dan The Man Mann and Liberal Tom Fidler Plus joining us from the virtual joint were a plethora of podcast contributors including: Liberal Nick xG Dave Will The Spreadsheet Winker Russty Bee Jonathan JB Burchill Lord Lou Can The Gowler Gerry the Cabbie Robin Hood and Katie Bee Episode one looked back at: Brentford's amazing first season in The Championship where they reached the Playoff Semi-Final against all odds The 'sacking' of Mark Warburton The madness of the Dijkhuizen era which lead to stability of Dean Smith The Thomas Frank era The crashing of a couple's blind date at a podcast recorded in Hammersmith Mark Warburton telling us that he did not agree with Benham's approach to signing players and running his club Rob Rowan giving us his vision of the B team Thomas Frank telling us how he wasn't quite sure when he was offered a downgrade of a role to become Dean Smith's assistant at Brentford Episode ONE can be listened to here https://pod.fo/e/1f890a Dont forget to buy us a beer at beesotted.com/beer Producer and Edited by Billy Grant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.