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During the war, Brentford competed in the London War Cup, losing in the 1941 final at Wembley Stadium to Reading and winning in the final against Portsmouth a year later. The club was relegated in the first season after the War, and a downward spiral set in, which culminated in relegation to the Third Division in 1953-54 and the Fourth Division in 1961-62. The survival of Brentford FC was threatened by a projected takeover by Queens Park Rangers in the late 1960s - a bid that was only narrowly averted with an emergency loan of £104,000 - while the club continued to yo-yo between the third and fourth divisions during the next three decades. The club won promotion in 1962-63, 1971-72 and 1977-78 but only on the final occasion was it able to consolidate its place in English football's third tier. Other bright spots in this period included reaching the final of the Freight Rover Trophy at Wembley in 1985, where it lost to Wigan, and a run to the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1989 which included wins over three higher-division sides and was only ended by the reigning league champions Liverpool.
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Brentford FC ran a pilot for the BBC RaW campaign and Reading The Game. The club collected stories from all ages of fans and compiled a book which was launched on December 2005. Read more about this project in RTG News.
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Bees United is the Brentford FC supporters’ trust that is raising money to support the club, having acquired 60% of the club in January 2006. Bees United is an Industrial and Provident Society, not a charity, and cannot claim Gift Aid.
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The other football pubs are the small The Royal Oak, 38 New Road, and the Princess Royal, Braemar Road , which is the "official" club pub, having been taken over by Brentford FC and refurbished. It will obviously be packed on match days though with home supporters.
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