UP at the crack of dawn for the penultimate away trek of the season, we made our way to Brentford over 1,000 strong for a match there was nothing on, except that most of us had never been to Brentford.

A full English breakfast at Warwick services nicely filled a gap and we soaked up a bit of local history along with a few pints of London Pride with the friendly locals at The Griffin. The pub is regularly used for films, including Green Street in 2005 and in 1976 it was the headquarters of the Trico women fighting for equal pay for equal work.

It’s the penultimate season at Griffin Park for Brentford as they are moving to a new stadium in 2016. It is also one of the few grounds that still has standing areas. Our hopes of a good result were somewhat extinguished as news of Neil Danns and Barry Bannon’s misdemeanours circulated. In the ground I sat next to two of our enthusiastic Italian supporters, Filippo from Milan and Luca from Bologna.

Neil Lennon managed to cobble a team together despite the injuries and disciplinary matters with Tim Ream starting in midfield. Our luck with injuries continued unabated with Dean Moxey, Oscar Threlkeld and Giles Coke all having to go off and Paddy MaCarthy ending up as a passenger up front with Emile Heskey at centre back. It was good to see Mark Davies back and on the scoresheet, although their goalkeeper, David Button is probably still having nightmares about it. Overall, it was an end to end match which either team could have won. We did alright with a patched up team against a team fighting for a Play-off spot and fully deserved the point we got, if not more.

The match allowed Neil Lennon to look at more players in the squad about whom he has got decisions to make. Everyone went home with a smile on their face. Now we head for Bournemouth on a Monday night, which has angered many fans after it was switched so late from the Saturday afternoon.