FEATURE
OUR HERITAGE SHIRTS
In 1889. Brentford RC formed a new sports club. Brentford FC! The kit colours were claret and blue. BU designed a retro shirt and it’s on sale now. Coming soon – watch out for our striped shirt from 1895/96
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THE IMPS NEGOTIATE A GOLDEN SHARE
Foes on the pitch (not recently!) and friends off it. The IMPs asked Stuart Hatcher for advice given his experience with the BU Special Share. “To say they helped us is a massive understatement and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude.”
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FEATURE
CUP SUCCESS 1894 – MATCH REPORT
BU designed the heritage shirt which reproduces our kit winning the Middlesex Junior Cup, in April 1894. Here’s Jonathan Burchill’s report of that day
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BILL’S MATCH REPORTS
Bill puts pen to paper at Gtech and the London Stadium, where some bubbles were certainly burst but let’s not forget that Wissa bicycle kick too.
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GUEST REPORTER – LUIS ADRIANO
VAR. So draining. It’s a concept that should work but as the great Edwin Starr almost sang though, VAR… huh, yeah huh. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (say it again)
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FEATURE
BEES WOMEN CHASE TRIPLE AND NO VAR!
Crunching tackles, pin point passes, creative midfield, exciting forward line, wizardly wingers, spectacular goals – Richard Merritt updates the women’s story after their return to GTech last weekend
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AGM Survey Thank you to all our BU Members who completed our survey. We are processing all your comments as soon as we can!
BU Archive – Books Collection Around 70 books (including different editions) have been published including a few recently – BU has most of them – but we have gaps so we will be asking for donations soon! hello@beesunited.org.uk
Thank you for your donations to the BU/BFC Archive Donna in Ickenham (with a red car and her little boy’s red school uniform!) Alan Bird – so many books Louis and Rob, the family of Dennis Osborne – over 10 books Ken Spanner – Freight Rover final Elton John autographed programme John McGlashan, our first BU Chair has donated several BFC Board minutes and documents – a rich history source from the Noades era to Dan Tana – thank you so much John
Queries, questions and offers of donations, to hello@beesunited.org.uk
Heritage Shirts launch Thank you to – Brendan Nevin, Paul Briers, Jonathan Burchill, Paul Stembridge
BU Memorial Page We remember loved Bees on our page – contact us, hello@beesunited.org.uk to add a new name
BU Archive update Coming soon – the restored Loving Cup – Bees history from 1937 A plaque to commemorate Harry Curtis
Women’s April Matches Hackney (a) 7th Clapton (a) 14th Richmond Park (h) Wednesday 17th – Wheatsheaf Sport America (h) 21st Bedfont Leatherhead (a) 28th
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