Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

THIS BEATS HENRIK’S IKEA VISIT..

- BY MATTHEW DUNN

GRIFFIN PARK is less than six miles from Wembley – but the closest Brentford right-back Henrik Dalsgaard has got to the hallowed turf is the neighbouri­ng IKEA.

He revealed: “I have never been to Wembley itself – but when we first moved to England I did have a couple of trips to IKEA.

“I tried to put it all together myself, but don’t remember buying anything useful.”

Thankfully, Brentford manager Thomas Frank has been better at building the perfect family environmen­t – even without recourse to an Allen key.

“That’s what we are about – we are a family,” the Denmark internatio­nal said.

“We are ready to fight for each other and if somebody has something to say, we will listen to it.

“We are ready to work for each other and when you do that you become more like a family or good friends.

“At the same time, you are not afraid to talk to good friends and if I have to kick butts in training I can, because I know we are going to be good friends again.

“Many times Christian Norgaard and I have been fighting in training but as soon as we step off the pitch we are best friends.” Those family spats include rows over music – although those have reduced since Dalsgaard (left) took charge and selected Blur’s Song 2 as the team’s anthem.

He said: “It’s an old FIFA ‘98 song and it just gets us going a little bit, just to fire it up sometimes.

“The young players were playing such rubbish music.

“I told them I was vice captain and shooed them away.

“Then I just tried to put something together that everyone would

enjoy.”

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