Brentford News

Kevin O'Connor has been striving to get Brentford back to the second tier of English football for so long that success this Sunday will finally be mission completed.

A CHAT over pints of foaming ale in the legendary Oxford and Cambridge pub near London's Kew Bridge way back in October 1889 led to the birth of Brentford Football Club.

Despite burying Saturday's injury-time penalty at Swindon Town in the first leg of the League One play-offs, Kevin O'Connor gave way to Tony Craig for the second leg at Griffin Park.

Brentford striker Marcello Trotta said he had choice but to give a perfect performance in the play-off semi-final against Swindon, after his infamous moment in the spotlight a week before.

Do you want more from Spurs? Register for the Weekly Spurs e-newsletter and be kept up-to-date with everything from White Hart Lane They travel to Brentford's Griffin Park in the League One play-off semi-final, second leg with the tie all-square at 1-1 after the first leg on Friday night.

AT THE end of Saturday's first leg, Brentford were pumping music out of their dressing room as if to celebrate a job well done.

CESC FABREGAS will look for a return to the Premier League if he is sold by Barcelona this summer, with Arsenal in pole position to take advantage.

Swindon manager Kevin MacDonald thinks it is too hard to call the second leg of their npower League One play-off semi-final with Brentford this afternoon after his team suffered a late setback in a 1-1 draw at the County Ground on Saturday.

Swindon 1-1 Brentford: Match Report - view commentary, squad, and statistics of the game as it happened.

Swindon V Brentford - view commentary, squad, and statistics of the game live. Hamstrung duo return for Robins Swindon will be boosted by the return of midfield duo Simon Ferry and Alan Navarro for the first leg of their npower League One play-off semi final with Brentford.

Brentford's end-of-season bash should have been something of a damp squib but Uwe Rosler feels it could spark success in the play-offs. The Bees' shattered players had their awards dinner on Sunday night, just 24 hours after their agonising last-minute defeat by Doncaster which secured promotion for Rovers and condemned Brentford to the play-offs.

Brentford Football Club are my poison of choice. The Bees, a cornerstone of the local community, pride themselves on being a family club - one that punches above its weight but doesn't weigh a lot to begin with, which has given rise to its self-spun moniker "the Barcelona of the lower leagues". Long lovable doormats, and one of the last remaining ... (more)

RICHARD LEE: How Doncaster's pre-historic hoofers beat my Brentford in Europe's biggest game of the weekend - the League One promotion decider MailOnline columnist Richard Lee was ideally placed to witness the extraordinary scenes as Brentford played Doncaster for promotion to the Championship at Griffin Park on Saturday.

Football is known around the globe as "The Beautiful Game," but its capacity for pulchritude is undoubtedly matched by a penchant for cruelty.

Bees skipper Kevin O'Connor's spouse lambasts on-loan striker Marcelo Trotta after he insisted on taking a late spot kick that could have won promotion but hit the bar Just when you thought that the drama of Saturday's crunch League One promotion shootout between Brentford and Doncaster was beginning to settle down, the wife of Bees captain Kevin ... (more)

Brentford boss Uwe Rosler insisted his side would bounce back from the heartbreak of being 20 seconds from the npower Championship after Doncaster snatched a 1-0 win to seal automatic promotion.

The 22-goal striker missed last weekend's 1-1 draw at Hartlepool through suspension after he was sent off at Sheffield United.

Brentford will go into a final-day promotion decider with Doncaster after picking up a point in a 1-1 draw at already-relegated Hartlepool.