Football fans, like any gamblers, are pretty well guaranteed to endure more bad days than good ones. Liverpool supporters, to take a high‑achieving example, probably feel their domination of the 1980s was several lifetimes ago. Faithful Terriers must scarcely believe there was a time when Huddersfield Town were the powerhouse of English football, becoming the first team to win the league on three successive occasions in the 1920s.
But spare a festive thought for the long-suffering followers of Brentford, a club who celebrated their 125th birthday in October. Brentford have won a couple of minor trinkets in that time but really nothing to build even a very tiny cabinet about; their heyday came with a pair of top-six finishes in the old First Division in the 1930s. And then imagine how good it must feel to be a Bee right now. After knocking around in the lower leagues for ever, Brentford have embarked on a run that – precisely halfway through the campaign – took them to third in the Championship, before Boxing Day’s slip-up at home to Ipswich. Losing 4-2 was a setback but it was against one of the two teams ahead of them; it is suddenly conceivable that next season the team will contest a west-London derby against Chelsea in the Premier League.
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