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Always nice to have an excuse to dig out this absolute beauty once in a while.

Just signed Tammy’s younger brother ??, the gift

Tam? It's Tim. You won't believe this, but Bristol want me on loan! Oh, brother! This is brilliant for you, great fans, great stadium, brilliant inventive training, first class travel and accommodation, ambitious; you can even crash your team mates car! Epic news. Delighted for you mate. Err, not so sure about that. The first thing I need to do apparently is to go to the doctors and get a jab in case I fall in some fox shit. Did you have to do that? Hang on, are you signing for the Fewers? YOU AIN'T MY BRUVVA. *EastEnders drums*

Dwayne Rooney signing next apparently.

I have a Gashead friend and his reason for going to watch the Gas is he likes ‘ standing ‘ . I suggested that he could stand elsewhere without having to endure what passes for football at the Mem but he just didn’t get it .

I'd be more worried about making sure I could get out

Changed his name to Kevin Sour.

Fact: Right back Bradley Orr was considerably more prolific for us 229(12), than striker Tom Nichols is for the fewers 96(4).

In hindsight this makes some pretty sweet reading... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36808001

Interesting collection of reminiscence of the reading game.Not sure everyone claiming to be there was. Because it was a top of the table clash we travelled up in numbers.With terraces we were in early.What sparked everything off was a group of city in the away end(or side of the pitch)as a scrap started ,city fans from other parts of the stadium ran across the pitch to join in. City fan’s gained the territory and the fighting stopped.When reading team came out it was virtually silent as city fans now in all parts of the stadium.When City came out it was like a home game ,cheering from all sides.Eventually the police started to shift the city fans back to the away end which is when the terrace got ripped up and things got a bit grim,also lots of city attacking the police stood on r side of away terrace keeping fans away from reading side.Lots of split heads from truncheons. The game itself was a massive disappointment and we were never really in it. Not involved in any of the above myself, definitely carnage for a time ,certainly nothing to be proud of ,but it was fairly par for the course at that time. Anyone remember when city fans replaced the padlocks on the gates at back of tote end and entered on mass before the game ,stood in the away terrace looked like large group of rovers arriving until the chant(gas gas got to get rid of the gas )chant went up and the centre of the tote end emptied of blue and white. Glad I don’t have to take my kids to games like that now,but as a teenager it was definitely a buzz.

Does this herald a new era of humour from Mr H ?

The few lads left in the pub were claiming that now the trouble makers had gone it was alright to continue drinking,the landlord begged to differ.

That York train 'special' trip is a fond memory as well. Being told to "Get oover by t'wall" by the foreign northern police was hilarious at the time. I seem to remember a longer than usual stop at Derby station. The noise coming from the train was something to witness. "City are back City are back, hallo, hallo" . Happy days.

Yes I believe he acquired it when he went to Toledo on a Stag weekend. If he had gone to the Dolomite's he might have gone down a totally different Road(ster) and not received the same Acclaim. **Sorry @CodeRed I missed your post.

Thanks for giving the reason why we weren't allowed off the train. I never knew until now! I was a steward on board that day as well. Beryl would look after the regulars on CATs hence how I got that job! I'm puzzled as to why I never went to that Reading game. I remember going to the following season's match at Elm Park but for different reasons. I had a cold that was getting worse prior to the game. A steward let me climb back out of the ground via the turnstiles so I could go to the little terraced shop opposite for some flu remedies. Then I had to climb back over the turnstiles to gain readmittance. IIRC it was an early ko to avoid a repeat of the previous encounter.

Was on the Tote that day,but as I remember the padlocks had been cut the night before,problem was they had been replaced and the City fans had to climb over the locked gates to join the rest of us.We got in with forged tickets,with exactly the same serial number on,it wasn’t hard as it was just printed on coloured card,orange if I remember rightly.

Maybe, we know he's Renown* as a bit of a Stag with the ladies, but will get the same Acclaim with his puns * lovely classic

One example to give which might explain where the money goes, was the purchase and sale of Hayles. The directors loaned the club £250,000 for the purchase. They had a sell on clause of 50%. So, when he was sold, the club got £1m and the directors got £1.25m inc their original investment back.

Thanks for explaining the reasons for one of the strangest pre-match atmospheres we’ve experienced in a pub. Didn’t stop us having a couple though!

A few Plymouth lads had walked to the pub with baseball bats or something similar,they took a bit of a beating and retreated into the car showroom,the car showroom was the attacked with most of the windows going through and a number of cars getting damaged,police turned up and emptied the pub and escorted the City fans to the ground.

Yep he was in front of me getting over the fence, his brother still comes with us on away days

Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon (AAAAOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!).

Like most of their fans ,then !

Can't see Wally reinvesting any profit either.

I've never seen this before, and had to do a double take whilst watching This is from a video on YouTube of the tunnel cam against Rovers I wonder what happened to it??

Did the vile 'Bolton fan' have a red scarf and spend all night shouting abuse? If it was, that was me. Nice ground though.

I was at Reading and also Stockport the following away day. Met the legendary Ricky M (RIP) from Bath at Reading for the 1st time. Those on here ITK will know who I am on about. Ricky did bird in HMP for invading the pitch at Elm Park that day and trying to jump in to the Reading end to have a toe to toe along with a few 100 other City fans. Massive turnout from Bristol. Reading was quite a tough old town around the ground and the walk from the station to Elm Park was always interesting. There were removals lorries full of City fans driving around Reading That day there was complete lawlessness for an hour or so inside the ground. Quite frankly, it was a bloody good day out. Yes, we were a bit naughty that day, but so were most away fans in the 80s. Bristol City had a well known rep and every away day was lively. Great camaraderie amongst the City fans as far as I am concerned, Bit of a 2nd family. They were good footie days at the time. But out dated nowadays obviously.

Was on loan at Vitesse earlier this season. Shouldn't expect his time with the Fewers to be a Triumph though.