My team's giant-killing exploits

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www.brentfordfc.co.uk/page/MatchReport/0,,10421~54585,00.html

Lowly Brentford, my favourite football club, struggling to avoid relegation from League One to League Two, beat Premiership club Everton in the Carling Cup!

Although we finally won on penalties after the match finished as a 1-1 draw, if Charlie Macdonald hadn't uncharacteristically missed a penalty earlier in the match we'd have won 2-1 in open play!

Yes, the 'Bees' well and truly 'stung' Everton!

For all the million-pound plus players wearing Everton shirts our pride and our bargain basement team beat them!

It's like winning the FA Cup for a team like ours.

To put it into an American context it would be like the New England Patriots loosing to a side ranked in one of the minor leagues.

Brentford for ever- I'm sure Andy Scott can use the money from our cup run to buy a player or two to help us avoid relegation.

[sadie]

Don't understand a bit of that.....but YIPPEE!!!

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Thank you, Sadie. It's something none of the club's supporters expected in our wildest dreams - to beat a team full of million pound players and internationals with our own cut price assortment of youngsters, loan players and bargain basement buys!

I know Lin supports Chelsea who of course are top of the Premier League and I've more or less adopted them as my second team since we became an item.

Even so, Brentford wll always be my first love when it comes to football clube!

Days like our victory against Everton make it all worthwhile supporting a lower division side!

[sadie]

Well that's even better......I love it when the under dogs win!!!

[beth]

Sept 23, 2010 10:51:19 GMT -5 sadie said:

Well that's even better......I love it when the under dogs win!!!

I do, too. It was all I could do to keep from pulling for the little Akron Zips last weekend against U of KY. They were a sacrificial team ... the kind that can't hope to win, but gets on the schedule for a hefty percentage of the gate.

Stay with them, Mike. They might very well reward you some day, and, I'm sure your loyalty and hope are rewards in and of themselves.

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Of course with a Premiership club like Everton as visitors we had easily our biggest crowd of the season!

Most of the Evertonian supporters thought they just had to turn up and they'd hammer us somewhere in the region of 5-0.

Instead we pulled off an amazing victory and got much needed cash for our coffers which hopefully the coach Andy Scott can use to buy a couple of extra players.

Charlie Macdonald by the way scores most of our goals so when he missed the penalty our hearts sank!

[sadie]

You can't buy heart.

That's what the problem is with big money teams.....you get a bunch of prima donnas that forget what the game is about and what being a team means.