By Abdi Rashid on July 31, 2020 Brentford, Championship, Swansea City. Please But it was also special because it was a Griffin Park day which was utterly unforgettable even though no match was staged there that day.And that might be the way end up saying goodbye to the ground.

This was a side that had blown their first chance at promotion, then blown the final league game in the final moments against a relegation-threatened Barnsley.This was thereby the ultimate test of bottle, of how much such moments accumulate in the minds of players.

There really was no looking back, no hesitation.Moments later, the livewire Said Benrahma had crossed for Emiliano Marcondes, to finally and fatefully put Brentford into the lead.The first 22 minutes were among the best spells of football you’ll see this season. Please Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Sport > Football > Football League Brentford bid farewell to Griffin Park and book date at Wembley with impressive play-off win over Swansea. For more than a century, Griffin Park has been our home. They were pushing Brentford to the limit, everyone on the pitch aware how much was loaded into these final minutes. Free bets will credited by 7pm on Monday.

But it still wasn't a proper farewell, the kind of farewell which fans of all other teams who have moved grounds have been able to experience.And so when football does finally return to normal, when fans are back in grounds and we are in our shiny new stadium, don't forget that for all of us, it will always be tinged with regret that we started to embrace the new without ever being able to properly say farewell to the old.

They were true to his word and offered one of those “defining games”.They absolutely weren’t nervous, as Frank promised.

That day we played away to Peterborough and won to clinch promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in my lifetime. Brentford … Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when Many opposition fans have described Griffin Park as their favourite throwback away trip, and have been keen to visit this season to make the most of their last chance.I have been going to Griffin Park since 1975. It was from doubt and defeat to conviction and victory. Even one of Swansea’s rare first-half attacks ended up showcasing Brentford’s excellence.Connor Roberts burst through to bring a save from Raya, and allow the goalkeeper to fire the ball forward for Benrahma to then strike the inside of the post.There was the lingering fear Brentford could regret such misses, and many an attack that finished with something overly ambitious rather than calculatedly precise.That fear grew after Brewster’s fine lifted finish, since Bryan Mbeumo had seemed to make the game safe with his 46th-minute volley.The manner of Pontus Jansson’s mistake would have only fostered it, made lesser sides feel it was their fate to be frustrated.It’s difficult to imagine what the Brentford players must have been thinking in that moment. will be published daily in dedicated articles. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss In an online Q&A with fans in April, chief executive Jon Varney acknowledged that there may not be another game to see, but recognised that something must be organised, saying: "It's our strong intention to make sure that everyone has the chance to say goodbye. Superficially, they looked like they were falling apart.They’d blown two great chances to go second with two galling defeats to Stoke City and Barnsley, only to then lose the first leg of this play-off.But that’s what it was, superficial. This was one of the “moments” Frank was talking about. FAREWELL, GRIFFIN PARK. And it came from a standing start.Goalkeeper David Raya threw the ball out to Mathias Jensen, he turned inside and played the sleekest of through balls, and Ollie Watkins raced through the finish.It wasn’t just box to box in less than 10 seconds.

try again, the name must be unique Brentford produced one of their best performances of the season as they defeated Swansea 3-1 (3-2 on aggregate) in their last ever game at Griffin Park. The important thing to remember when you’re a pub blogger is to not to get crumbs in your laptop jump on every bandwagon; Good evening all and welcome to week 4 of #SADCASE (Si’s Ale & Dice Cleaning Adventure Social Exclusion). May 2, 2020 May 3, 2020. Griffin Park has been Brentford's home since 1904 Griffin Park has been Brentford's home since 1904 Transfer Talk: Real must bring Bale back into the foldPremier League breaks silence on Newcastle takeoverGriffin Park: Brentford's 116-year-old home set for a muted farewell It is to my lasting shame that I can't actually remember my first match.

try again, the name must be unique try again, the name must be unique Griffin Park: Brentford's 116-year-old home set for a muted farewell Watch Brentford vs Swansea live on Sky Sports Football from 7pm on Wednesday; Kick-off 7.45pm. But over the subsequent 45 years I have enjoyed and endured the roller coaster typical of all long-standing fans.Two lows stand out above the others - the play-off penalty shoot-out defeat to Huddersfield in 1995, and the last-minute penalty debacle in 2013, which famously saw us lose out on promotion to Doncaster.The highs of course were the promotions - beating Preston the year after Doncaster to finally reach the Championship, and a couple of promotions from the bottom division during our least successful periods.Then there was 1992, and ironically another May 2, etched firmly in the mind of all supporters. to your comment. {{#replies}} Football from the future, to see Griffin Park into history.The old ground’s last night might well have been its greatest, and could yet mean Brentford’s first match at their new stadium is in the Premier League.