When Thomas Frank acknowledged, poetically, on Saturday evening that Brentford had so far only “danced well one summer” he was referring not to the way they had just Cha Cha’d all over a dismal Manchester United, but rather last season’s eventual waltz to safety at the end of their maiden Premier League campaign.
Though none of them were quite as staggering as Saturday’s 4-0 blowout against Erik ten Hag’s crisis-laden mess, that debut season was punctuated with marquee results and performances against the division’s top-six sides.
