The Athletic Hello, I'm Dan Bardell, and I'm Floyloy Hughes, and welcome to the Athletic Football

podcast where every Wednesday Flo and I pick up one article from all the brilliant writing available on the athletic and put the authors under the spotlight.

This week, Jay Harris, Brentford Correspondent for the Athletic, will join us to talk about the B's impressive start to life in

the Premier League and some of the fascinating ways in which the club are

prepared for the big time including scrapping their academy.

Yeah Brentford a really really interesting team to talk about and I imagine a great team for Jay to

cover as well.

We're also going to talk about Ivan Tony who one of his teammates has compared to Didier Drug but after the

win at Wolves at the weekend.

So plenty to talk about but Flo will start with the news that Marcus Alonzo has

decided that he isn't going to take the knee pre-game anymore.

Do you have any thoughts on that?

Yeah, I think his response is a little bit basic.

I have to be honest.

Obviously, realistically, no one thinks that taking the knee before a match is going to solve racism.

And so it's very naive for him to think that he should stop now because nothing's changed.

I also saw a quote someone shared because someone asked him, you know, have you talked to your

teammates about your decision and he said no he hadn't actually talked to his

teammates so I think that's probably the most frustrating thing is you know you

want certainly you would like to think that players are supporting each other being allies for each other

at a really important time and if he was going to make a decision perhaps he should you know put that to the

forefront is being an ally for his teammates.

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