Sleep coaches and a ‘table of justice’: Why high-flying Brentford are buzzing again 

'If David wants to beat Goliath, you can’t do that by using the same weapons,' says Brentford co-director of football Rasmus Ankersen

HAPPY CAMP: Brentford players celebrate after their League Cup penalty shoot-out win over West Bromwich Albion. 

Brentford fans can look to history and a 1989 FA Cup quarter-final at Liverpool for inspiration as their side face Leicester City in the Fourth Round on Sunday, but it’s the fact the club is looking to make history by being modern which is really catching the eye of neutrals.

The late 80s was the era of terrace inflatables, a trend which randomly began with blow-up bananas at Manchester City but which was enthusiastically taken up by 7,000 Brentford fans as they held up inflatable bees at Anfield, having beaten City and Blackburn on their route to the last eight.