It was just one inch, two inches maybe,’ reflected Thomas Frank on the barest of margins that prevented his Brentford team from returning to winning ways on Saturday.
The nearly moment he was referring to came just seconds after Mads Bech Sorensen’s 50th-minute equaliser when League top scorer Ivan Toney’s shot struck the inside of the post.
Had it not made such a flush connection with the woodwork, Brentford would have returned down the M1 with a smaller deficit to erode than the nine-point gap that now exists between them and the Championship’s automatic promotion places.