MNC: Brentford, Brighton & the silent treatment
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Yeah, yeah, yeah! This is the Monday Night Club with Mark Chapman. On the Football Daily Podcast.
Welcome to the Monday Night Club. Roy Smith, Chris Sutton and Neda Manua are all with us. If there was a member of the Monday Night Club community who I thought might be targeted by a groundsman on a pitch roller, it wasn't Amdross, but anybody ever driven a lawnmower at you,
Chris? A taxi in Glasgow, but not a lawnmower. It's slightly different. It's
actually quite serious, is that?
I don't know why I'm laughing,
but
yeah. Yeah, but the Chelsea groundsman, yeah, I mean, he may have had the nod to have a go, but that was some watch, wasn't it? Fair play to Andros for surviving that. I mean, that was nuts. Chris thought it was targeted.
Well, for legal reasons, I don't think we can say that it was. I very much doubt it was. It did look out of control. Should we go there? You're meant to be the journalist, Rory. You're meant to be the one that helps
me with
slightly legal issues.
Just say that if I
was Andros,
I'd take it personally. Do we know that he's OK?
Yes. Yeah, he is. But, I mean, actually, when you see it, and Nadim came in telling me he can't stop watching it, he
does do. He is quite lucky because that roller does go over his leg. Yeah, to be honest, not to be conspiratorial, but what is the value of that roller if it can't even crush somebody's leg? Like, what's going on? Have I missed something here? I thought this is catastrophic, but it's like, no, he's fine. What does that thing actually do? It's like a lint roller just going over.
An
inflatable roller. Yeah, yeah. Questions need to be
asked. Anyhow, the idea of that bit was to wish Andros our best, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure at the end of that 90 seconds we really have. We'll look at what's going on in the international break with players pulling out here, there, And everywhere, we'll look at how the youth system operates in this country and across Europe. But we're going to start with positivity because you were very keen, Rory. I'm going to start with you. You were very keen to do Brighton and Brentford together tonight for the first 25 minutes or so, both winning 3-0 over the weekend. You could argue against teams at rather different stages of their development.
Yeah, it felt very much like it was Brentford and Brighton's weekend. The performances, not just the fact that they won, but the fact that they both won so well. And it just struck me, those draw lines are quite striking anyway, but it struck me the fact that going you know it's the five games in start the international break it feels like the first little chapter of the premier league is over and they're probably two of only a handful of teams who are relatively happy with the way the season started and it's at this time of the year chappers that i think generally like once a season for the last three or four years i've thought i bet brighton could get in the champions league and i normally come on the radio and say it and then regret it for quite a long time um did you say
i don't i'm not sure you said it last year I
think I may be trying to take a year off. Sometimes you have to let the field lie fallow. The
farmer amongst us will know that.
See, Chris is nodding. No, and I think it's interesting that they do look, from the evidence of the first five games, some members of the traditional bid sets don't look as strong as they might. Brentford and Brighton look really well set in different ways. And I'm interested in why the likelihood is that they won't both be able to push for the top four. I think they could, but it intrigues me what happens between now and May that stops them.
I think from my perspective with those two, We're kind of judging them based on how they performed against two of the biggest sides of such in the league. But I think for some of the teams that do qualify for the Champions League at the end of the season, it's how they do against everybody else. And I think for those sides, the only thing that's sort of holding me back a little bit is Brentford on Friday.
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