Hi NYC Bees, this has been quite a memorable stretch! We're solidly in the middle of the league table after beating defending Premier League champion Liverpool, the club continues to move on in the Carabao Cup, and we've had some stellar promotional opportunities for our group both locally and abroad! There was a little hitch in our upcoming schedule, but things are perfectly sorted out. Here's a roundup of the latest Brentford happenings, and what we've got to look forward to in November!
We will be meeting for all four matches in November, but with a little twist. The opening road match against Crystal Palace (Nov. 1) will take place at Dog & Bone, 338 3rd Ave., as a private event caused us to change venues. We have a group reservation, so hopefully you can join us! The remaining three November fixtures will all take place at our main home, The Red Lion, 151 Bleecker St. The Red Lion will open early for the 9 a.m. ET kickoff against Newcastle (Nov. 9); the odds of us facing Yoane Wissa are up in the air, but if he sets foot in Gtech Community Stadium, the "boo birds" should be out (and deserved!). See the graphic for our full meet-up schedule.
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As part of the big Brentford win against Liverpool, I had the opportunity to be at Gtech Community Stadium to take it all in! While filming a little bit of the surroundings, Premier League Fanzone was interested in running some footage, so we landed a segment on the Oct. 27 program! (which aired live on Peacock in the states)
During this stretch, we got some NYC Bees signage near the old Brentford grounds at The Griffin, I was fortunate to land a full-page article in the official game day program, and we were flagged down to join Beesotted, approximately 20 minutes into the post-match podcast. It was amazing to connect with some new and old faces on this journey!
Football writer Michael Lewis, well known for his extensive stateside and international coverage of the sport, decided to spend an afternoon with the NYC Bees when Brentford visited Fulham on Sept. 20. We were featured heavily in his Substack channel, View from the Front Row, on Oct. 3! With about 20 of us at The Red Lion, Michael soaked in the experience and reactions to tell our story. Thank you for making the trek from Long Island to paint the picture of this supporters' group! We wish Brentford didn't have one of its poorer performances, but it was nice to see him capture some of the components of our weekly gatherings!
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Bees sink defending champion Liverpool: The signature moment of the season to this point surely is Brentford's 3-2 win against defending Premier League champion Liverpool on Oct. 25. Thiago's 60th-minute penalty kick proved to be the game-winner, but many of the fireworks took place in a shot-heavy first half. Off a patented long throw-in from Michael Kayode, Dango Ouattara put the Bees on the scoreboard in the fifth minute, and Mikkel Damsgaard set up Kevin Schade for a two-goal advantage in the 45th minute.
Kayode earned Premier League Team of the Week honors, and manager Keith Andrews also was recognized after this feat. With a respectable 13 points through nine league games, hopefully there are fewer naysayers out there!
Bees advance to Carabao Cup Quarterfinals: Brentford easily ousted the Cinderella Story of the Carabao Cup, Grimsby Town, with a 5-0 road victory on Oct. 28. The win puts the Bees into the tournament's quarterfinals. Mathias Jensen and Keane Lewis-Potter scored clinical goals in the 22nd and 26th minutes, respectively, and really never looked back. Reiss Nelson had an impactful game, setting up KLP's tally and scoring a goal of his own late in the first half. Brentford's Cup run resumes in mid-December, when the Bees visit Manchester City.
Milambo out for season: On Oct. 15, the club announced that Antoni Milambo will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season. He suffered an ACL injury on international duty with the Netherlands U21s. The 20-year-old Milambo started in a pair of Carabao Cup wins earlier this season.
Quick hits: Former Brentford player Alan Hawley passed away in early October. He was 79. Hawley is 11th on the club's all-time appearances list (343) and he was inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2013. ... The Brentford Women were eliminated from the Adobe Women's FA Cup on Oct. 26, falling in a 4-3 shootout against Sutton United. Esme Alaneme tallied her first Bees goal during regulation, which ended at 1-1 before going to the shootout. ... Among our other NYC Bees media opportunities, Abhi Goyal made his return to Across the Seas but Forever Bees in the build-up to Brentford-Liverpool, followed by Alison Roberts' debut after our Liverpool and Carabao Cup wins! We appreciate all these opportunities to join the guys at Forever Bees. I took part in another edition of Breaking Bread, a series on the Man City-focused Shades of Blue Network. The opening minutes of my Brentford v Man City conversation are available for free, and the remainder is a Patreon exclusive segment.
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Charlie
