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Gerry Sweeney , Tom Ritchie

1958 Accrington Stanley FA Cup Blue and white quarters ! Wonder where they got them from Shirts for the Blackpool game were borrowed from Cardiff

Blackpool 1959 FA Cup

19th, 17 th, 14 th in successive seasons. It is progress. Slow progress, but progress none the less. Would we like it quicker ? Of course. What concerns me is that when managerial changes have been made in the past we usually get worse. Ward to Lennardson. Wilson to Tinnion. G Johnson to Coppell to Millen to McInnes to O’Driscoll. L Johnson to Holden. It is not a good record. We should not be changing the manager at this point because we are progressing, albeit slowly.

Sheffield Wed Derby Coventry Burnley City Portsmouth Watford Blackpool Reading Burnley have played a great number of seasons in the top division. You could argue Portsmouth are bigger than City but they have not done much since 1949. I know they won the cup but they have played a lot of season in league 1 and 2. Watford are basically a third tier club and will probably return there again soon

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I agree with what you say. Managers, players, owners, directors and coaches all come and go. The only consistent is the fans. Many want to see a winning team above all and so are happier in League 1. They certainly would not like in the Premiership ! Many have an inbuilt pessimism, negativity and anxiety. I remember someone saying years ago that if we ever won the Premier League ( old First Division) we would have fans whose reaction would be that we will never win the European Cup ! Every manager that we have ever had has had a core element who want him out - Dicks out, Johnson x 2 out, Holden out, Houghton out, SOD out, Pauli’s out, Mullen out now Pearson out . We have heard it so many times. Experts on here have definitively asserted at one time or another that Ayling, Freeman, Reid, Bryan, Kelly and Brownhill are not good enough for us but have gone on to the Premier League. Wright and Diediou not good enough for us but good enough for the World Cup. Magnússon . These same experts are not even prepared to consider the possibility that they might be part of the problem.

England have a very good team, probably the best ever and certainly the best since 1970. They could easily have won this year, and I am speaking as a Scotsman. Most of them will be in their prime in 4 years and there will be very few changes by then. It is not stretching a point to suggest that Alex Scott will be playing in Jordan Henderson ‘ s position . Harry Kane may have gone over by then, and his most effective replacement will be Abraham of Roma. Harry Maguire is obviously vulnerable , but the defence will be improved by the introduction of Webster of Brighton.

For every Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford there is a Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton and Ipswich. That’s the way it is. We are pretty well in our usual place. Would like it to be better, but it could be worse. It is , of course, shameful that no other city of comparable size in Europe has had it’s team playing less seasons, indeed no where near less seasons, in the top division of it’s country.

Look at Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton and Ipswich and smile

Our home shirt in the future should be the opposite of this year’s away shirt - red with a white stripe. Apart from looking good, it sets us apart. Over the years there are many teams with red shirts that are little different from ours- Liverpool, Man U Notts Forest Aberdeen etc , ( Arsenal are a bit different with the white sleeves) but the white stripe will set us apart. Everyone will know that it is a Bristol City shirt,

25.10.58 Sunderland.Won 4-1. Derek Virgin scored twice. I believe he is still alive. Would love to meet him.

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