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Conor Coules, a season ticket holder since the turn of the century, who sold programmes outside the ground during his student days, harks back to a 1-0 defeat to Wigan in 2002, when he was mascot.“The one rule was you couldn’t go in the box during the warm-up,” he recalls. The original lease on the ground ran out in 1925, but the deal was kept on ice and the club became freeholders in April 1936.With Brentford in the Fourth Division and heavily in debt in the late 1960s, in March 1968

Brentford played in the League Cup round 4 in the 1982/1983 and 2010/2011 season and that is the club’s biggest success in the competition. We were magnificent that day, everyone, and the crowd was just together and brilliant.”When the title was secured on the road at Peterborough a week later, Griffin Park was still to play a central role in the celebrations.“It’d been a nice little club just waiting to take off,” Holder says. “I scored the first goal with a diving header and we went in 4-0 up [at half-time].

There’s very little of the Edwardian stadium left, maybe the turnstiles. “We hadn’t played them for 17 years, they were a bit confused about why we were still singing about them.“I remember thinking I’d get down the pub early, get there about four o’clock. There were a lot of gatemen that probably made a bit of money during that era, a lot of cash that never quite made it to the till.”Whelan confirms those suspicions: “There was an old guy [who would let us in] every Saturday, ten-past-three, but you couldn't be earlier and you couldn't be later. After 116 years and a few more months than they bargained for, Outdated, but never more loved, the ground is seen as the last of London’s old-school stadiums, its standing terraces and suburban location a source of communal pride that has somehow made a trip to see the most progressive club in the Football League a nostalgic experience.It wasn’t until 1977 – the best part of two-thirds of the way through the ground’s existence – that Dave Lane first went there to watch Brentford play, but he became so enamoured with the place that many years later he wrote its definitive history, 'The Big Book of Griffin Park'.Its foundations planted on the site of an orchard in 1904, he explains how the stadium, much like the team that played in it, blossomed during the reign of legendary manager Harry Curtis.“The ground was developed between 1926 and 1939,” he tells Steve Perryman, who would go on to become Tottenham’s all-time leading appearance maker, grew up in west London and spent the late 1950s and early 60s watching Brentford at home one week and QPR the next.He remembers standing on the great, Kop-style Royal Oak as a seven-year-old: “That was such a vast terrace, I don't know how many it held, but Christ, it went back forever. Brentford’s main rivals are Fulham and Queens Park Rangers and they take on each other in the West London Derby. “Well, it did take off when we won that championship…”“It was almost a race back from Peterborough between the fans and the players,” Lane recalls. “I remember a guy trying to scare us, saying a mascot had gone in there once and has his head taken off by a ball.“From being in the stands every game to being out on the pitch was quite a surreal feeling – we’ve been on there a few times since for pitch invasions, but that’s a bit different.”Griffin Park’s floodlights are the only real exception to its topographical anonymity, peeking out from behind the rows of houses, craning like the neck of a nosy neighbour, and offering pretty much the only hint as to the old ground’s existence before you’re standing at its gates.“Us, as well as the other 90 league clubs, probably bang on about the romanticism of playing under the lights,” Boyd laughs. “But Griffin Park is lovely under the lights and some of the midweek games have been brilliant. Ayew goal gives Swansea play-off semi-final lead after Henry red card

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