Bristol City

Steve Coppell Leaves Bristol City. Wait, What?

by Rob McCluskey on August 12, 2010 · 4 comments

Well while many Bris­tol City fans felt that they had one of their best squads in years a few weeks ago, Steve Cop­pell has damp­ened hopes of pro­mo­tion slightly by announc­ing his res­ig­na­tion today after only two com­pet­i­tive games in charge. Cop­pell claims, in his state­ment, that he has failed to become pas­sion­ate about managing […]

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The start of the newly named Npower foot­ball league is almost upon us and it all gets under way on Fri­day night at Car­row Road when Nor­wich take on Wat­ford. As well as a pre­view I will be writ­ing on Thurs­day, I thought I’d pick out 5 play­ers from this sea­son that are worth keeping […]

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He may turn 40 tomor­row, but that hasn’t stopped Bris­tol City from snap­ping up Eng­land goal­keeper David James on a free trans­fer, after the player was unable to agree a deal with for­mer employ­ers Portsmouth. James had big­ger offers from the Pre­mier­ship and Celtic in Scot­land, but Neil Lennon told reporters that James had no […]

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The Championship: Halfway There

by Rob McCluskey on December 26, 2009 · 6 comments

Unless your team was unfor­tu­nate enough to be struck by bad weather (par­tic­u­larly Barns­ley), you may realise we are now at the halfway point of the Cham­pi­onship sea­son. 23 games gone and all of sud­den ambi­tions become a bit clearer for clubs. The cham­pi­onship can be one of the most excit­ing leagues in the world […]

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Bris­tol City Founded: 1897 Nick­name: The Robins Ground: Ash­ton Gate (21,497) Last Sea­son: 4th in the CCC 74 Points Lost in the Play­off Final to Hull City John­stonts Paint Tro­phy Win­ner: 1985–86, 2002,2003 Sec­ond Division/ League One Win­ners: 1905/06

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Sky Sports has announced its sched­ule of tele­vised Cham­pi­onship matches for the first few months of the 2008/2009 sea­son. Here’s the sched­ule: Sun­day, August 10: Not­ting­ham For­est v Read­ing Sat­ur­day, August 16: Bris­tol City v Derby County Sat­ur­day, August 30: Wat­ford v Ipswich Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 4: Coven­try City v Southamp­ton Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 25: Read­ing v QPR […]

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The Eve of the Final

by Shakira Graham on May 24, 2008 · 0 comments

First off let me con­grat­u­late Man­ches­ter United on win­ning the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League on the 50th anniver­sary of the Munich Air Dis­as­ter. Now onto the Cham­pi­onship Play­off Final between Bris­tol City and Hull City. Tomor­row these two sur­prise teams will bat­tle at Wem­b­ley for the right to be the third club to be pro­moted to […]

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