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Into the play-off final

Brentford 3 – 1 Swansea

Brentford

Home team scorersOllie Watkins 11Emiliano Marcondes 15Bryan Mbeumo 46

Swansea

Away team scorersRhian Brewster 78

Aggregate 3-2 Brentford win 3-2 on aggregate

Championship

Brentford fight off Swansea to reach play-off final in Griffin Park swansong

Jonathan Liew at Griffin Park

Wed 29 Jul 2020 22.35 BSTFirst published on Wed 29 Jul 2020 22.11 BST

Bryan Mbeumo celebrates scoring Brentford’s third goal with teammate Rico Henry.
 Bryan Mbeumo celebrates scoring Brentford’s third goal against Swansea with Rico Henry. Photograph: Ben Evans/Huw Evans/Shutterstock

A night for moving on. For shedding baggage, and laying the past to rest. On the night Brentford said their farewells to Griffin Park, they came closer to top-flight football than they have done at any point since 1947. They did so with a sparkling modern brand of football quite at odds with the weathered girders and sardine seats of their old home.

The downs of football

The hope does not take long to disappear.

A poor performance and the opportunity to control their future and possible promotion has gone.

The reason- pressure and anxiety? Lack of fitness after so many game and loss of movement and style? Poor passing and no real pressure on the opposition.

So back to likely play-off process after the last round of games next Wednesday unless wild things happen.

COYB.

Lockdown Football and Hope

Possibly the biggest goal in Brentford’s history:pic.twitter.com/iqIZSwpQfB— Essential Brentford (@BrentEssential) July 17, 2020

As the saying goes currently…”we live in strange times ‘.

Football in the Championship as well as the Premier League has restarted behind closed doors as a result of the pandemic.

Brentford have come back after the lockdown break so well with eight wins. They have slowly pulled in WBA and this is the round with 2 games to go. It started .. and ended.. with WBA one point ahead with the Bees having a better GD.

But the Baggies have screwed up by losing to Huddersfield – so now Brentford have the future in their own hands. Four points needed from their last two games. One tomorrow v Stoke away and then home to Barnsley who a rooted at the bottom of the table.

So now a big, big game tomorrow.

Down to the Globe in Windmill Road to see the outcome.

I’m cycling this week too:

Tube use in London down 50%

Vikram Dodd

Vikram Dodd

The Guardian understands the latest figures for transport use in London shows sharp falls since the government urged people to stay home on Monday.

Use of the tube network is down by almost 50%, compared to its normal level, with bus use down 40%.

Figures reported by some UK media earlier on Wednesday, showing a fall in tube use of 19% and bus use of just 10%, come from earlier in the week, sources with knowledge of the figures say.

The beginning of the blame?

Quand l’ex-responsable du plan pandémie se plaignait des atermoiements face au coronavirus

Dès le 29 janvier, l’ancien secrétaire général de la Défense et de la Sécurité nationale tirait la sonnette d’alarme auprès de quelques journalistes.

Par Vincent JauvertPublié le 17 mars 2020 à 21h56  Mis à jour le 18 mars 2020 à 03h57Temps de lecture 2 min 

Louis Gautier, l’ancien patron du SGDSN, le 18 mai 2017 à l’Elysée. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
Louis Gautier, l’ancien patron du SGDSN, le 18 mai 2017 à l’Elysée. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

« Je ne comprends pas : pourquoi n’ont-ils pas encore déclenché le plan pandémie ? On perd un temps précieux ! » C’était le 29 janvier – onze jours après le premier cas de coronavirus déclaré en France et une semaine après le confinement des onze millions d’habitants de Wuhan, en Chine. L’homme qui parlait ainsi à quelques journalistes il y a un mois et demi s’appelle Louis Gautier.