The Brentford Gazette
Squad28 May 2040
A fracture rules Aaron Hickey out for 106 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brentford will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom28 May 2040
Brentford are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad28 May 2040
Kevin Schade in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brentford this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 May 2040
Oscar Bobb falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 May 2040
Daniel Evans gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daniel Evans has just signed for Brentford, and for once the answer mattered.
Market28 May 2040
The Michael Kayode story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Michael Kayode signs something — a contract at Brentford or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Market Brentford shop where it costs nothing
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Daniel Evans
- Boardroom The Brentford board put their names to it