PEN pics of Brentford's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.

Brentford are embarking on a huge recruitment drive as they bid to build "the most caring and progressive football Academy in the world."

BRENTFORD are advertising for a Set Piece Coach following confirmation of Bernardo Cueva’s move to Chelsea. The Mexican will join the Blues at the end of the season.

AHEAD of the January transfer window, Brentford Technical Director Lee Dykes outlines the seven stages of the club's recruitment process.

LYDIA BEDFORD has been named as Brentford Under-18 Lead in a landmark appointment by the Premier League club.

BRENTFORD B Technical Lead Allan Steele is leaving the club after nine years to become Director of Football at Forest Green Rovers.

BRENTFORD Director of Football Phil Giles says the club’s new Robert Rowan Performance Centre, which opened in December, has “changed the perception” of the club.

BRENTFORD first-team coach tells us the three people who have had the most influence on his career - and gives his three top tips for coaches.

BRENTFORD first-team coach Justin Cochrane tells us about his coaching journey on Episode #45 of the TGG Podcast.

BRIAN RIEMER has left Brentford after four years to take his first permanent role as a Head Coach, with Belgian giants Anderlecht.

JACK WILSON is leaving Brentford after two years to become First Team Performance Analyst for Set Pieces at Manchester City.

BRENTFORD Head Coach Thomas Frank says his goalkeeper coach was injured by one of Nottingham Forest's ground staff during an altercation ahead of their 2-2 draw in the Premier League yesterday.

BRENTFORD have announced that their new temporary performance centre will be opened before the end of November and named in honour of their former Technical Director Robert Rowan.

BRENTFORD will run a Category Four Academy from the start of next season. They operated at Category Two level from 2012 to 2016 but took the decision to close their Academy in 2016.

LEE DYKES has been promoted from Head of Recruitment to Technical Director by Brentford. The 37-year-old will be responsible for recruitment, analysis, data, technology and player pathways.

BEN RYAN, who famously led Fiji to Olympic gold in Rugby Sevens, has been appointed to the new role of Director of Elite Performance by Brentford.

JUSTIN COCHRANE has left Manchester United after a year to become first-team coach at Brentford. The 40-year-old, who has been described as “outstanding” and perhaps “the best developer in the country”, was Head of player Development and Coaching at United.

BRENTFORD'S journey to the Premier League is a story of innovation, clever use of data and investment in people. We found out more about this from their Director of Football, Phil Giles.

BRENTFORD Director of Football Phil Giles says the club could re-open their Academy in future because Brexit has forced a change of strategy.

RASMUS ANKERSEN is stepping down from his role as Co-Director of Football at Brentford after six-and-a-half years to set up a sports investment firm.

BRENTFORD are proving themselves set-piece pioneers, even in the Premier League - and their all-out approach to corners is reaping rewards.

JOSH KIRK has left Sheffield United after three years to become Head of Analysis at Premier League Brentford.

FORMER Brentford midfielder Allan Cockram, who is now Head Coach of Cambridge University's football team, is offering to give his urban soccer cages to a deserving club for free.

PLAY-OFF hero Emiliano Marcondes explains the work he did with sleep scientist Anna West that helped to get his Brentford career back on track.

FORMER Coventry, Fleetwood and Carlisle manager Steven Pressley has been appointed Head of Individual Development at Brentford.

WHY playfulness has become a key part of the recovery process - and more - at Brentford.

LEADING sport psychologist Michael Caulfied says treating footballers as individuals is more important now than ever, and that we should never revert to a one-size-fits-all approach.

INSTEAD of spending big money on transfer fees and wages (because they can’t), Brentford decided to invest in specialists to maximise player performance. One of them is Danish sleep expert Anna West, who has been working with the Bees since 2016.

BRENTFORD have appointed Swede Andreas Georgson to the new role of Head of Set Pieces and Individual Development.

SOME might dismiss Harry Redknapp as a hangover from a bygone age, but Ben Dirs finds the 71-year-old as passionate and thought-provoking as ever about the game he loves.

BRENTFORD co-Director of Football Rasmus Ankersen says the club invests in specialist coaches to increase the value of their "assets" instead of paying big wages for players.

BARTEK SYLWESTRZAK, football's only full-time ball striking coach, explains why we're missing a trick by neglecting this most fundamental skill.

BRENTFORD Technical Director Robert Rowan has died from heart failure at the age of 28, the club has announced.

FORMER Premier League footballer (and champion boxer) Curtis Woodhouse tells Ben Dirs why he's learnt so much managing Bridlington Town in the Northern Counties Premier Division.

THREE of the England Under-16 team that beat Croatia last weekend - managing to do what their senior counterparts couldn’t at the World Cup a couple of weeks earlier - were products of Brentford's Academy.

DANNY CIPRIANI is one of English rugby's great talents, but hasn't started a Test for 10 years. He tells Ben Dirs about refusing to fit the mould.

FOR YEARS, the barmaid at The Borough thought the small, grey-haired chap wearing an old England rugby shirt was just another regular. She was right, up to a point.

TRAINING GROUND GURU has been shortlisted for sport website of the year at the prestigious Sport Journalism Awards.

OUR top 10 best-read stories of 2017, ranging from Redfearn to Ranieri.

MARTIN EDWARDS transformed Manchester United from a club in the doldrums into a corporate juggernaut. So why doesn't he get more credit? Ben Dirs went to meet the club's unloved emperor.

LEEDS UNITED have added Italian set piece coach Gianni Vio to their staff.

Steph Curry and Danny Cipriani are enthusiastic members of the floating fraternity. We sent Ben Dirs down to Float Level in Manchester to find out what it's all about.

Ex-England striker Alan Smith reveals the truth about his acrimonious exit from Leeds, the injury that almost ended his career and why he is relishing every moment with Notts County.