Silk and steel: how Thomas Frank gave Brentford reason to dream big
The Bees struggled early on in the Dane’s reign but this modest club now stand one game away from the Premier League
Mon 3 Aug 2020 08.00 BSTLast modified on Tue 4 Aug 2020 04.37 BST
It was long after the final whistle at Griffin Park last Wednesday, and a little before David Raya and Sergi Canós carved up the goal net to take a patch as a souvenir from the stadium’s last competitive game. The Brentford owner, Matthew Benham, was taking penalties at the Ealing Road end, trying to replicate Marcello Trotta’s infamous stoppage-time miss against Doncaster in 2013, when the striker smacked the crossbar before James Coppinger tapped in at the other end to extinguish any hope of automatic promotion from League One. Seven years on, the magnitude of the prize at stake is incomparable.
