Pound for pound, name five managers across Europe better than Brentford’s Thomas Frank. Well done if you got to more than three.
In terms of club size, Brentford should be bottom half of the Championship or top end of League One. But, on the pitch, they ended Saturday night eighth in the Premier League, above big-spending Liverpool and Chelsea, who treat £100million like it is loose change.
The Dane often refers to Brentford’s small budget and fans embrace their underdog status too, with chants of ‘We’re just a bus stop in Hounslow’.