Fulham and Brentford to test strong starts in historic derby full of intrigue

It’s been two years since Brentford and Fulham met in the Championship Play-Off Final at Wembley.

Then, as now, it appeared Brentford were the club in the ascendancy, playing swashbuckling football under Thomas Frank and certainly the romantics’ choice for promotion over a side who had been in the Premier League only a season earlier and, for much of it, stunk the place out.