Since then The Bees finished League One runners-up in 2013-14, then after establishing themselves in the Championship, won the play-offs last season with victory over Swansea City at Wembley to reach the Premier League.
Brentford Community Stadium
166 Lionel Road North,
Brentford, London Borough of Hounslow, TW8 0RU
Capacity 17,250
PL/EFL grounds visited 92/92
Brentford originally announced plans to move to a new stadium in October 2002, but it wasn’t until late 2007 when the club announced that it had secured an option on the site. The partnership deal with landowners Barratt Homes to develop the site was finally announced in February 2008, with the club purchasing the 7.6-acre land on Lionel Road in June 2012. Following development agreements, work on the ground officially started in March 2017 with site clearance and preliminary works, with the main building works beginning in spring 2018.
The ground has a distinct multi-coloured seating pattern. The main stand on the south side is the largest structure with plenty of corporate facilities and a large screen perched on the roof. There's double tier stands behind both goals with a single tier East Stand, which houses the away end in the south corner.
Brentford 0(Joelinton 33 Willock 44)
Newcastle United 2
Premier League matchday 27/25
17th v 14th
3pm ko
Att.17,039
Admission:£30
An excellent away performance, but more importantly a significant result at the bottom of the Premier League. First half goals courtesy of a towering Joelinton header, followed by fabulous work by Fabian Schar to set up Joe Willock for the second goal just before before half-time. The task was made much easier following the early dismissal of Josh Da Silva for a heavy challenge on Matt Target, however United strolled through the second half to notch another 3 points to leap-frog above today's opponents, Leeds and the scouse-mackems. So, another solid performance and another step away from the relegation trap door.
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Departure 0655 LNER Newcastle Central - London Kings Cross (arr.1050)
As I only go to Newcastle away matches at new grounds, this was an enjoyable rare treat. I met up with one of my old Toon Travelling companions John Moody on the train, who I’ve known going way back to when Bobby Shinton was king! (one for the older readers…Ed) We got talking to a couple of young’uns on route, who we took under our wing and let them tag along with us on our pre-match Chiswick pub crawl. We eventually alighted the tube at Turnham Green for a sup at The Taburd, George IV, Duke of Sussex and The Swan, which are all listed in the 2022 Good Beer Guide.
Special thanks to friends of the Hogmeister for sorting me out with a gold dust match ticket, which kept up my unbeaten record of never seeing us lose when tickets have came from this reliable source. The last 3 away matches I’ve seen with NUFC have all been in London, winning at West Ham, Spurs and now at Brentford’s new home, so I look forward to next time, wherever that may be.