In every Brentford FC match day programme, there are columns from key figures updating supporters on issues at the Club.
On Sunday, in the special commemorative programme from the FA Cup tie against Chelsea, Chairman Greg Dyke gave his thoughts on the match and football in general.
The column is available below for any Bees fan who did not pick up a match day programme.
Today’s game is one of those matches all Brentford fans will remember for ever - win or lose.
To have the European champions coming to Griffin Park to play us in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup is a first and can I welcome the players and officials of Chelsea to today’s game.
As always in the Boardroom we will wish them luck and they will wish us the same, but in truth none of us actually means it!
In recent years at Brentford we all remember the home games against Sunderland and Everton where we won against the odds and pray it will happen again.
Following the draw we had a long discussion deciding whether or not to put up the price of tickets for such a memorable game and in the end we added something like 50 per cent to the price while protecting our most loyal fans - our Season Ticket Holders.
We did it because although we’ll all have a great time today, what really matters to us this season is getting promotion.
The extra money we’ll make by putting up ticket prices will all go into Uwe’s playing budget, which will allow him to bring in a couple of extra players for the rest of the season.
Having had a successful cup run, which included two replays, means we will be playing two games a week for several weeks and that will inevitably mean injuries and players getting tired at a time when we need to be at our best so a couple more players will really help.
One really good piece of news in the past week or so is that Uwe has signed a new two-year contract.
Although his old contract didn’t end until the summer the Board decided before Christmas that we wanted to secure our manager now.
Many of us believe Brentford have been playing some of the best football we have seen for years at Griffin Park and we want that to continue and of course being near the top of the league helps.
Losing at home to Tranmere Rovers and drawing with Leyton Orient was a blow (amongst directors of both clubs we all thought the referee was awful in the Orient game) but no-one believed we could go through the rest of the season without any setbacks.
The job after today’s game is to get back to our winning ways in the league.
It will be interesting to see how many English players turn out for Chelsea in today’s match.
As someone who was involved when the Premier League was first set up I don’t think any of us back then expected, 20 years later, to see England’s top football clubs mainly owned by foreigners, managed by foreigners and played by foreigners.
The result has meant English football now has the best known, most exciting and most competitive league in world football but arguably it has had a detrimental effect on the England team and English football in general.
The former Tottenham Hotspur manager David Pleat was at one of our recent games and he was bemoaning the fact that one of the problems English football now faces is that the big Premier League teams sign most of the young English talent at a very early age.
Yet most of those players never get a chance to play in their First Team, let alone become regulars.
The question this poses is: where are the next Frank Lampard, John Terry and Ashley Cole - to name just three ageing England regulars at Chelsea - coming from?
It’s much easier and less risky for a manager to go and buy from overseas than give young English talent a chance and that’s always assuming the best talent in their youth set ups are English.
If you look at the Youth Teams of the biggest teams in Britain you’ll find a lot of the best young players have been hoovered up from all over the world.
This is a very English problem - the same doesn’t seem to happen in Germany or Spain - but until we do something about it it’s very difficult to see the England team being able to compete at the highest level.
Now all this is easy to recognise, the hard thing is working out what the FA and English football can do to change it.