Brentford have been great to watch and Frank is a new force in the league who is strikingly different to everyone else. The play-off finals, the promotion and the kicking of some big Premier League arses all explain why Frank is so popular with his own fans, but more broadly than that, the football he’s got his team playing and how he conducts himself with the media has won us all over. What’s So Great About… Ange Postecoglu | Gareth Southgate | Emma Hayes An up and down season ended with them in a creditable 13th position after starting as most people’s relegation favourites. They lost only one of their first eight games of the season but had a difficult Christmas and New Year winning only once and drawing oncee in 13 games but recovered to win seven out of their last 10 games, thanks in part to Christian Eriksen’s arrival in January. The opening game of the season, played in their new Community Stadium saw them give Arsenal an absolute schooling. A year ago, he prepared for the season by moving out four players in the summer and bringing in 10, but spending just £28.5 million keeping a hardcore of players in the first team who got them promoted. They were relegated in the first season after the war and hadn’t returned to the top flight since, spending the mid 60s to late 70s in the fourth division.īut that wasn’t the end of the story. This was no small achievement for a club that was last promoted to the top division in 1935 and one that was made on a relatively small budget. That would come next season when they finished third again and beat Swansea in the play-off final 2-0 ensuring promotion to the Premier League. But in October 2018 Dean Smith went to Villa and he took his chance to take the big chair for himself.īrentford were in the Championship and he had an inauspicious start, registering only one win in his first 10 games, but form picked up in the second half of the season and they finished 11th.Ībsolutely no-one took this as an indication that they would be candidates for promotion the next season but they finished third, got to the play-off final but lost 2-1 to Fulham. He did a good job, was well respected and got a contract extension to the end of 2018-19 season.
Can you imagine what sort of mental straight-jacket you’d have to wear to think that? That’s very refreshing to hear in these times where freedom of movement is sold to us as a very bad thing. He said both he and his wife and family wanted to experience a different country and a different culture. Nine months later he took an unusual move abroad to Brentford to work as an assistant coach to Dean Smith, working with the reserves. The club finished third and fourth, qualifying for the Europa League but he resigned after nearly three years because the club chairman had a pop at him on a fan forum under a false name, which seems vaguely bizarre. Aged 39, this was his first senior position in football. This success led him to be appointed U19s manager which he did from 2012 to 2013 before being appointed coach of Brondby. He took the 17s to a Euro semi-final and qualified them for the World Cup. This brought him to the attention of the Danish FA who took him on as coach for the U16s and U17s in 2008. Laptop guru is he? Yes he is but despite never having been paid to play football, he built a reputation as an excellent youth coach at Frederiksværk BK, Hvidovre IF, B93 and Lyngby.
A Dane born in Frederiksværk, he never played football professionally. Thomas Frank is the 48-year-old manager of Brentford. Here’s ‘What’s So Great About…’ the Brentford boss… Got a kid’s birthday coming up? Let them celebrate in style with a couple rounds of bowling, hours of fun on our kid friendly arcade games, and even a ‘Build-Your-Own-Sundae’ bar through our Kids Party Packages! Sports fans will love catching the big game on our big screens while sipping some hand-crafted libations from the bar.The style of play, the interviews, the ‘no d*ckheads’ policy and, of course, the hair – Johnny Nic loves everything about Thomas Frank. Kids, families & groups love Lucky Strike Novi! Located inside Novi’s very own Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk, Lucky Strike Novi is a chic, upscale bowling alley & entertainment center that features the very best in dining, bowling & nightlife. Groups, Kids, Reserve, Takeout, Waiter, Walkins