Q 01/05

Brentford Football Club was formed in October 1889 by members of which existing sports club?

A) The town's rowers

B) The town's swimmers

C) Local cyclists

D) Kew athletes

Answer · why

A) The town's rowers

The town's rowers. They wanted a sport for the winter months, and at a pub by Kew Bridge they voted eight to five for association football over rugby.

Q 02/05

Whose 1890s chant of 'Buck up, Bs', misheard by reporters, gave Brentford the nickname the Bees?

A) Dockers from the local wharves

B) Students cheering a college friend

C) Workers from the town brewery

D) Market gardeners from Chiswick

Answer · why

B) Students cheering a college friend

Students cheering a college friend. They came from Borough Road College to support Joseph Gettins, and their college cry, meant for him and his fellow...

Q 03/05

What pushed Brentford, then an amateur club, into turning professional in 1899?

A) A brewery offered to pay wages

B) It was caught paying its players

C) The Southern League required it

D) Its best amateurs left for rivals

Answer · why

B) It was caught paying its players

It was caught paying its players. Under-the-counter wages were common among London's leading amateur sides; the football authorities punished Brentfor...

Q 04/05

Griffin Park, Brentford's home from 1904 to 2020, was laid out on brewery land that had been what?

A) A gravel pit

B) An orchard

C) A brickfield

D) A racecourse

Answer · why

B) An orchard

An orchard. Volunteers felled the fruit trees and were allowed to keep the wood; the landlord was Fuller's Griffin Brewery, which is how the ground ca...

Q 05/05

Griffin Park was famous as the only English league ground to have what?

A) A pub on each corner

B) A railway line under the pitch

C) Terracing on all four sides

D) A church inside the ground

Answer · why

A) A pub on each corner

A pub on each corner. The Griffin, the Princess Royal, the Royal Oak and the New Inn ringed the ground, and visiting supporters traditionally made for...