James Horncastle
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276 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard yesterday
James Horncastle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's still summer, Emma.
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Have you not noticed?
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It's mild outside, I
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No, although it has become the hardest place to go, one of the hardest places to go in the Premier League.
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And I think you can say that the surprise is it's no longer a surprise because Brentford have a stability and a continuity about them that goes an awful long way.
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And you mentioned those two 3-0 shellackings.
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Yes.
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Tottenham and Chelsea they're two of the clubs that have had the most flux and change over the summer in terms of coaching staff in terms of personnel on the pitch as well and Brentford just know who they are and what they're about and I think when you come against a team that is so sure of themselves and what they have to do you have to be really on it and if you're not what happens is what happened to Chelsea on Friday night
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I do think that's interesting what Liam said there that the Premier League has kind of moved towards Brentford maybe more than any other team because if we look at you know the current champions Arsenal
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Arsenal are heavily influenced by Brentford in terms of coaching personnel, be it Nicolas Jovea for set pieces, be it their goalkeeping coach as well.
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Even some of their signings, they're kind of very Brentford coded.
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And so as much as we like to look at Arteta as being part of this Pep Guardiola paradigm or coaching tree...
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really in sort of style of play, you can see maybe as many if not more shades of Brentford in Arsenal's football than you do, say, Pep City or something like that, which is remarkable when you think about it.
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And it's something that I think people are aware of but don't talk about enough about how this team has really helped affect a shift in what is expected of Premier League football these days.
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Yeah, I think there is definitely something to be said about being away from the spotlight, not having the same media scrutiny as the big six clubs have.
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But I would go back to what David was saying.
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These are clubs that in the narrative around Premier League football are talked about as data first clubs.
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That is their identity.
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And that is not the full story with these clubs.
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