A Pub On Every Corner | Griffin Park | Brentford FC
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2021
- In Griffin Park, Brentford F.C. had one of the great English grounds, boasting the last terrace in the top tier of the Football League. The changing nature of West London and Brentford as a Club and neighbourhood, call in to question what truly makes a football community.
In this film, we speak to Brentford fans as they adjust to their new surroundings, attending their first game at Lionel Road, Brentford Community Stadium. With change comes questions as to how commercial decisions might impact the club culture and how you balance this with ambitions for the future.
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Congratulations Brentford for your promotion to Premier League. Best wishes from México!
It was almost perfect. Only if Covid didn't happen and they beat Barnsley to get 2nd at the last Home game at the ground. Respect from a Millwall fan
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@@ranioh5524 why?
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All respect millwall. Played as a kid for you at the old den for millwall school of excellence. Bees though forever
Went Brentford a few times as an away fan. Blinding stadium. People bang on and on about shit hole stadiums - the best stadiums as an away fan are the 'worst' ones because they're all so traditional and fun, proper away matches.
Spot on. Give me Griffin Park and Underhill over Stadium MK and the Emirates.
Totally agree .
Totally agree. I follow a lower league Scottish club and we some really good away days at tiny shit hole grounds.
@@coloneldecker it’s way more fun . The sanitised premier league is awful. Now the championship is turning into it and the games are dull as the support is not bouncing
I hate bowl-shaped stadiums with a passion
I'm a saints supporter, have been for a long time. However, my aunt lives very close to the ground, and I now live in West London too, It's a proper club, with proper support. I was gutted to see the wet blanket of a club, Fulham, promoted to the prem over Brentford. Hopefully they'll get automatic this season.
I second that as another saints fan
This HAS aged brilliantly and Dreams CAN come true:)
@@Isleofskye shame time is linear isn't it.
Sounds great and friendly fans - will have to go to the pubs - hope they don't go when the ground is inevitably demolished for flats.
Ones already gone, another soon to go too😥 defo go to the new inn and the griffin! I don’t see them closing for a few years
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The new stadium is just half a mile down the road, so the pubs could have a future with the bfc supporters. (Unlike the Hammers pubs around Boleyn Park. You feel such pity with Hammer fans to leave such an intimate stadium for the horrid Olympic stadium).
Be nice if they did what they did with Highbury but very unlikely
They all be gone within a year
As a (rather young) fan from Belgium I’m really glad I’ve seen all the pubs and Griffin Park in its glory at least once, it was a really wonderful experience 🐝
Love using these guys in Fifa! They have a very good squad, lots of young talent!
as a middlesbrough fan i always loved to come to brentford for away games the stadium was something special.
it brung a different atmosphere than many of the other championship stadiums, i will really miss going there.
i really hope the new stadium will be just as good.
But best of luck from Teesside
Had many good away days as a boro fan at Griffin park, the home fans always good for a bit of banter on the train, best of luck this season
Did the Frontline cause bother at Brentford? Heard Boro were a naughty firm back in the 90s.
As a Charlton fan, when in England I would always go to Griffin park to watch the Super Bees play, when my lot were playing to far away. I always had a soft spot for the bees and loved being able to park up with no hassles and wander in and sit/stand wherever I wanted. I have some wonderful memories of going to Griffin park and always loved the humour, banter and love/loyalty the Brentford fans had for their club! I hope they take a step further this season and make the big time and stay there for a bit! Good luck and thanks for the memories!
These people are fantastic presenters. Lovely video, hopefully going to visit during a matchday one day.
A genuine, proper football ground with a great fanbase & club, i will sorely miss this ground, from a Swindon fan.
I was very very lucky enough to watch the last ever attended game here. On the other side, watched my side get beat 5-0.
At least you sent her out in style
and i was fortunate enough to be on the right side of this result... was a fantastic atmosphere that day, i don’t think anyone would have thought it was the last game for nearly 8 month :(
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Dad: “My great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, me, my son.”
Son: “No choice!”
I felt that! xD
I miss fans at football games
Me too 😔
Yes we all do cant wait to get back 🚜🚜🚜🚜
We all do!! Football without fans is nothing.
@@copa90stories without chanting fans you mean 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜⚽️⚽️⚽️
I miss going to games...
Brentford fan, grew up in Brentford a few streets away from Griffin Park. Proud of how far the team has come, hope in the year ahead we can continue our good form and finally win the promotion to the Premier League we narrowly missed out on last year!
I thought when they built the new ground it be bigger then old 🚜🚜🚜
We made it, mate
Find it hard to believe that you can go out with the players at the end of a season. At least at a professional club. That is fantastic. What a brilliant thing to have! Hope Brentford fans can have that experience for many years to come.
We're only fortunate to have experience as our club is semi-pro. The start of season cocktail parties is fantastic fun. Ended up going down a bar with a few of the players after last year's function.
In years to come Brentford fans will regret moving. Griffin Park was a superb ground.
Didn't have a choice, sadly. EFL forced it cos of the terraces.
@@EjvindGEMDark I didn't realise that. Pretty sad... these new stadiums are full of promise but I'm yet to see many that deliver (for the fans, anyway).
I'll miss it as an away fan, even though we very rarely won there. Love the fans on the video as well - that's what football's all about - real people :)
@@xavier3437 and their pitch isn't big enough for premier league standards
For a Coventry fan this hits rather close to home... Especially with London Irish playing their games there, didn't know that was the case. At the end of the day the fans are what make a stadium a home, corporate or not- and seems like these have it in droves
This music is amazing. Fantastic showcase of a fan culture which is just the way it should be. Great work. But sad to see Griffin Park gone. I managed to get there once, got a ticket for the standing terrace and it was amazing. The fans around me welcomed me (as a german "tourist") and it was such a great thing to be able to stand in an english stadium. It is the right way to watch a match when you want to be passionate, no doubt about it. Bring standing back man, look at the atmosphere in other places like Germany, it has got something to do with being able to stand
Going to be over priced houses or flats reckon 🚜🚜🚜
@@nickmullerITFC78 Yeah it's all half a million pound flats. Part of the deal on the new place.
@@EjvindGEMDark I bet it be more then that locals cant afford to live in own area same all over London and the value of other houses in that street will shot up in price 🚜🚜🚜🚜
@@nickmullerITFC78 Nah it's about that, I live down the road.
@@EjvindGEMDark disagree I think the prices will go up once that ground gone that be a quite road station near by 🚜🚜🚜
It's about time Brentford git promoted to Premiere League! Wow I never thought I would live to see this
Now 4 months later back in Prem after 74 years in the lower league COYB all love from Denmark🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
These fans deserve it! I wish Brentford all the best in the EPL next season 💪🏼
In all 394 football grounds I’ve visited Griffin Park is by far my favourite ground of all these, no other ground like it. Will be hugely missed
So you liked standing for 90 min?
@@DC42087 yeah I stand for 90 mins at most grounds especially non league
Loftus Road > Griffin Park
@@Danpuffpuff65 cant have been many grounds if this was your fave
@@DC42087 I am a fan of old fashioned grounds such as Griffin Park, the way it’s tucked in the houses of west London and the fact it had 4 pubs on the corners. The ground was the only ground in the top 2 levels of football with standing terracing and the floodlights especially at night made it feel so special.
Nice work! So sad Corona got in the way of getting to say goodbye to Griffin Park
Thanks Edgar. It is a shame that Brentford supporters never got that last goodbye.
The New Inn?
"Some real characters in there!"
The Griffin?
"Lots of characters in there!"
The Bricklayers Arms?
"You'd meet some true characters in there"
The Princess Royal?
"That's where the real characters go"
welcome to the borough, kumpel
Brendan Rogers would love it
Great video. From a Luton Fan here we also celebrate with the players in the pub when we win promotion and recently avoided relegation . That’s when you know you have a club that has strong links to the supporters and the community. You would not see that sadly and any prem Club.
I’m so sad as a diehard Brentford fan not to have been to Griffin park since last year January and I will never see it again 🥺🐝
God I miss going to fratton park. This video has really hit that home. Brentford are a great club.
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Funny thing is, my club play at a modern 30 000 seater built in 2013 and if I want a beer at half time I have to go around 35th minute as well.
So I guess all stadiums have that problem.
But that's ok, you kinda get used to it!
The kind of stuff you love to see. Best regards from Barcelona!
Best wishes on the move and lets hope to see you in the prem soon. Hammers fan that knows the pain of leaving home. Always happy to see Brentford win.
One of the best grounds I've ever been to. Was there in 2018 for the last game of the season, baking hot day and great football in a proper old ground.
Loyal fan since 1977 Dreams and heartache at Griffen Park!! but standing on the terrace will be missed every Saturday,onward and upward.
As a Hull City fan was always one of the first fixtues I looked for. Good dat out. I'll miss it. New stadiums are never the same.
Respect from a Toon fan who stood in the standing area (covertly) a few years ago. Great club, proper fans and lovely boozers :)
Love these videos, a great insight to clubs and footballing stories. Keep it up.
Hope they manage to make the ground feel like home.
My side Barnet moved to a new stadium, half the fans no longer go and we are bottom of the conference...
New grounds are crap!
Not all of them...but the Hive is certainly soul-less and lacks any atmosphere.
Absolute boss video about the supporters and their community aka the pubs,love it!
Im so glad I had the chance to visit a game om Griffin Park when I was in London a couple years ago. So much football history is getting destroyed there. Griffin park, White Hart Lane, Upton Park.. Griffin park was a classic English stadium, I absolutely loved it. The atmosphere, the fans, the ground with the stands so close to the pitch. Amazing!
Been to Griffin Park a few times over the years with Watford, always enjoyed it. We had a bit of a rivalry back in the late 70s/early 80s but happy for them getting promoted to the PL and the new ground.
I live just outside of Brentford but I feel more at home there than I do my own town.
I can sit on a corner with my mates in the summer with a bottle of cider and just feel safe and relaxed, I'll bump into other fans walking around even when it's not match day.
I'm glad the new stadium is just around the corner. The soul of the club will remain even once the stadium is gone.
It's a chilled out place with such a good buzz on match day.
"The club has just been promoted, give them a bit of slack" haha that's so great
I'm doing a football manager save with Brentford. Great wee side
Great club (and this is coming from a villa fan ) sone great players abd a manager that knows wat their doing brentford is on the up
Great story! Really interesting
Brentford are a cool club, they deserve PL football even though your manager is a bit of a hot head haha. All respect though. Cheers from a Swans fan
They don’t deserve to be in the premier league you have to earn promotion plus Brentford are a nothing club we don’t need small clubs in the premier league
@@matthewsmith8727 that's very prejudice
I love seeing new clubs in the Premier League
Welcome back to the Premier League, Brentford!
This story sums up everything sports is meant to be. I’m dying to go to a game there some day now
Quality vid. Remember when Cambridge United got promoted free bar at the ground after match at Wembley in 2014 singing and drinking with all the players and staff
I think that will be intresting to talk anbout Beerschot. Relegated to the 5th division and in 7 years back in the 1st ! And many other things ! (Beerschot VAV, Germinal Beerschot, Beerschot AC, Beerschot Wilrijk and Beerschot VA)
The club has an amazing fan base and an wonderfull team ! I miss the fans in stadiums... (Love this style of video btw !)
was a guest down Griffin park a couple of times when I moved to Park Royal for a bit in the late 90's. nice little old school club. lively atmosphere and surprisingly they turned out quite a few game lads that used to knock about with qpr's mob as well if I remember correctly with a shared passion of slapping Luton about haha
Live 3-4 minutes away from old Griffin Park, I'm a Crystal Palace fan but the atmosphere is great
Good bunch of lads at Brentford. Honest fans!
Made it all the way to the semi of the efl cup
Great video I hope the pubs survive and stay open after they move grounds and this pandemic keeping pubs closed is not helping landlords 🚜🚜🚜🚜
I like brentford . Was a great ground and was always a great day out now you have a soulless bowl like us . Sad days from a Reading fan
Fantastic video, I hope you guys post move videos about smaller and amazing clubs.
When I think of Brentford I think of Bradford Park Avenue, Maidstone United, Chester City, Halifax Town, you know all those massive clubs.
and that’s how we like it
When I read comments like this, I think of a comment I read years ago, calling people, skinny jeans wearing cheeky nandos soccer am fans.
Great little film. 👍🏻🐝
Been there a couple of times and loved it. COYB
Bournemouth fan used to love our frequent visits to GP me and my mates used to do the gallon challenge, 2 pints in each pub before the game and then into a good old fashioned proper ground and after 5 years in the Prem still would prefer to go to GP than most of those soulless Prem stadiums
Had many a good day out there following Cardiff always a good day
Always loved going to Brentford for an away day.
Nice to see a Brentford story on you tube. I've been a fan since the early 70's...went first with my grandad and then went soooo many times after. Drank in the new inn as i got older, loved GP. Sad to go but we needed to modernise. Haven't been in a while owing to living in Penzance !! However when all this crap is over will go to the new ground.Can it be the same ? No , but it will be mecca to the new generations I hope. Heads up to ALL my fellow Brentford fans , odd, aren't we ??
And now they're in the Prem!
I remember wheb bircham scored the winner and the away end went mad, best game that 2 bob place has seen
Clap fucking clap u bore
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Really enjoyed that! Hope can keep the sole of the club going...obviously without too much success on the pitch 😉
This was the first club i supported as a youngster. My first match was 59-60 season against Bradford City. cannot remember the score, but i think we won, it was an evening game. Then i became a member of the supporters club. They gave you a lapel badge. Sadly i don't have that now.
That's another one we've lost. It's inevitable - you can't halt the tide of progress. Glad I made the midweek trip to GP a couple of seasons ago to watch my team. I mourn the passing of every old ground.
Hope things work out at the new place.
Brentford finally made it to COPA
Respect from IFK Göteborg.
Sad to see Griffin Park go, was always my favourite away game of the season in the Championship, no more classic old terraces like it anymore
always loved my awaydays with hullcity there and a few pints in the Griffin 🍻
That away end will always have special memories for me
Early 1950's...watching Tommy Lawton on my dad's shoulders in the gutter at the Brook Road end. Late 50's...selling programmes in the rain to the away fans on the Ealing Road terrace. 1960's...working in Essex and having to make do with Southend on a damp evening at Roots Hall. Happy memories. My uncle was on the players' gate at Griffin Park back then and got me the job selling programmes.
Great music in this video!
I was at the last game it was a amazing atmosphere
I've been there a couple of times with Aston Villa Griffin Park was a proper old school ground.
We, Grimsby, have mooted a new ground for the best part of 30 years but there's now a bit of light that it could actually happen. When the day eventually comes I know I'll be devastated to leave Blundell Park, as you guys are to leave Griffin Park. But that day needs to come. We've not played each other for a number of years and I feel sad I never got to Griffin Park. Always seen you guys as a kindred club, similar heydays (30s/40s) both got proper old skool grounds, similar-sized fan bases. I hope we can replicate/emulate what you've done, however unlikely that feels right now. UTM PUB
I'm not crying...
Respect from sc Heerenveen
Starting off the video with the local pubs how you know it's going to be good.
Also, anyone got a song id for the track that plays in roughly the 13-15 minute in the background? Catchy
I was lucky enough to go to Brentford vs Blackburn. the new stadium is so nice but nothing can beat the feeling of Griffin Park
Tottenham fan but went to school near Griffin Park + lived over Hounslow so soft spot for the Bees
Would love to go there and do a pub crawl!!😃👍🍻
Looks a good set up and well run club. Be nice to see the Bees in the Premier League 👍
super brentford fc 🐝🐝🐝🐝. been going to griffin park my whole life. up the bees!
Great video! COYB!!!! 🐝🐝🐝
Joined the supporters club 1964/1965 all over England in the coach what great times we had. Only player I can remember by name was Mark Lazarus he played for QPR as well which was a local derby then. Loftus road ... what a dump compared to Griffin Park.
Would love to go to a Brentford game
London irish now sharing the ground with them, will havebto check the pubs out!
So many proper grounds are going Torquay last visit to griffin park was 2004 a 3-1 win
As a Swansea fan I can say, Brentford r class. Last season, a match day in the championship against Brentford was like playing Man City in the prem. I would go “omfg pls let’s not get torn to shreds by Benrahma and Watkins.” U guys deserve to be in top flight, it will come surely
Swansea and Brentford are in the top 3 championship teams for sure
I bought tickets up to Brentford v. Charlton but Covid ruined that for me. Will forever be bummed I didn’t get see a game at Griffin Park.
Would've liked to have got down to Griffin Park, but the away end is so small I could never get a ticket. As a Leeds fan, the only people squeezing into an end like that are the ones that go to every game. Maybe we'll meet again and I can try my luck with the new place
If you can find it read "Griffin park brentford" from "the soccer syndrome"by John Moynihan,fantastic book of essays on English football published in 1965.
My club❤️
You should come a drink in the whitley tavern in Reading, now that was a hard pub !!!!
Does anyone know the name of the music playing in the background at 14:00?