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Brentford - Saturday 15/08/09

Two games played and two shots on goal didn't represent the best of starts for the Albion. There first league away game came at last seasons League Two Champions Brentford, who now boasted not just Carl Cort, but Steve Kabba among their forwards. With an aggregate score of Brighton 0-11 on trips to Griffin Park since 1995, it would be a tough ask for Russell Slade and his men to get their season up and running with three points

 

Witham is soon eyeing up some foreign students on the journey from Brighton to Victoria

Joy turns to confussion early on, as Rumble's studying of the train map denotes we are not heading towards Brentford

The answer to train overcrowding is evidently to place seats in the middle of aisle ways, thus blocking the door

The football season is evidently back as McCarthy is back on Smirnoff Ice

If we were driving, we would almost certainly have parked in The Butts

Another cracking headline from The Sun

The Sky remote is acquired in The Beehive Pub

Sussex Twenty20 Semi Final with Northamptonshire gets underway

Clayton Nick makes himself at home by removing his shoes

Rumble and Jenny engage in a game of cheese

We were unaware that Jenny owned her own kebab shop in Brentford high street

Potter enjoys a pint of tea

Hull take a shock lead in the opening Premiership game of the season at Chelsea

The decision is taken to endulge in some sambuca

Pre-game shots all round

Rumble decides that he wants to sail to the game, but unfortunately this canal boat was locked

This poster begs the question, who on earth would go on a guided walk of Brentford?

"Don't worry Mark, there will be a gap in the fence" is the call from Rumble as they decided to take a shortcut across the grass

However, it was once again a Rumble lie, as Potter is now stuck

He attempts to find a way over the fence, but unlike Rumble and Jenny can see no way of climbing it

Potter is forced into running all the way round to the actual park exit, thus delaying pub time

After watching Sussex qualify for the final, we stumble across a carrier bag belonging to Gary Hart, and Potter helps himself to a can of his Carling

It was good to see the Steve Coppell look-a-like in the pub

Potter moves onto Gary Harts ham roll

Police horses were present as always

Griffin Park in all its glory

The home end - now complete with roof

The main stand

Potter is delighted to be inside Griffin Park

Clayton pulls off a remarkable pose

Witham is no doubt admiring some sort of female

McCarthy pulls off the Bruce

Adam Virgo prepares for kick off

Liam Dickinson in his outrageously flair boots

Tommy Elphick warms up Kuipers

The traditional pre-game huddle takes place

Carl Cort was making his home debut, and looked bloody brilliant. Not hard to see why he was once a £12m player

This plane leaves Heathrow

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The Albion defend from a corner

Andy Scott shows why he is one of the most in-demand managers in the lower leagues with this dashing suit

It was good to see Brentford were able to attract sponsorship from the International Space Station

Lewis Price was in goal, and rumours were soon flying about that due to his Ipswich links, he may have been the Suffolk Strangler

The game peters out into a boring 0-0

Kevin McLeod prepares to whip one in

The Albion look to do something from a set piece

A sight that is about as comforting as seeing a bearded man offering Wethers Originals to your child - Adam Virgo prepares to take a free kick

The Albion players - minus Glenn Murray who had sprinted off down the tunnel - group together come the end of the game

Potter purchased a sandwich whose filling could only be described as shit

Clayton sleeps on the journey home, and was helpfully woken up on arrival in Brighton by Potter screaming "NICK" in his ear

And the day ends with watching Sussex storm to Twenty20 victory over Somerset in the King and Queen


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