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In Nat Lge N, I see Glos City are relegated. Which league will they play in next season please? A few years ago Lowestoft made it to Nat Lge S, but when they were relegated a year or two later they were placed in a different one to which they had won promotion from.

City used to play friendlies (H&A) against Bristol's twins Hannover and Bordeaux. When McInnes took over we had a pre season tour of Scotland. Then again as a reward for we fans, as it's July why not Las Palmas away?

The stadium is primarily an athletics stadium, capacity 11,800. The stadium, which has a bowl-like effect, has a playing surface surrounded by an international standard athletics track. The Tyne & Wear Main Stand on the west side is a large all seated covered stand, which has a capacity of 3,227. Opposite the Tyne & Wear Stand is the 4,044 capacity East Stand, which is another large sized bank of seating that is now under cover.

So we raise an OTIB team and park the bus so as to help the team.

On SSN they reported Barnsley fans booed Neil C after their 3-2 away defeat on Saturday.

Nat League play offs announced; Tue 23 Solihull v Gateshead cancelled. (See the post from Ronnie S) Wed 24 Altrincham v Halifax Sat 27 the two semi finals; Barnet v Solihull and Bromley v Wednesday's winners. Sun 5 May the final.

Just imagine; 46 games in a season and City have 23 undeserved and dull 1-0 home wins coupled with 23 dull and boring 0-0 away draws. It would not be enjoyable entertainment, BUT City would have 92 points and a goal difference of +23.

I say keep VAR, BUT change it's use to that of DRS in cricket. The Ref can use it if he's not sure of what just happened and both teams would be allowed to review two of the Ref's decisions. For the rest of the game the VAR official just sits there and minds his / her own business.

Elsewhere in Britain, TNS won the Welsh League again, 33 pts ahead of the second placed team. Larne are currently 3pts clear at the top of the Irish League. TNS and Larne won their leagues last season as well. For the Champions League these teams start playing qualifiers in July and if they get through all four qualifiers, they get to play a team which was 4th in a larger country.

I expected the Coventry Manager to remember the precedent which has been set; grab a ball boy and swing him round.

Is it my imagination, or are the commentators biased? Several statements suggesting so including this: Manchester United need to concentrate now on winning in extra time.

For their final game of the season, 700 Hartlepool fans made the nearly 600 mile round trip to Dorking Wanderers yesterday and witnessed a 4-3 win. All 700, men, women, children and Jeff Stelling, went dressed as Blues Brothers.

Highland League decided on goal diff; Pos P W D L GF GA GD P Buckie Thistle FC 1 34 26 3 5 98 34 64 81 Brechin City FC 2 34 26 3 5 90 28 62 81 East Kilbride walked away with the Lowland League 12 points clear of the 2nd placed team. The winners of Buckie v East Kilbride play the bottom side in Scots Div 2 with the winners of that in Div 2 next season. With two games to go, Clyde 32pts, Stranraer 33 and Bonnyrigg Rose 35, everyone else is safe. Although surviving on gates of less than 900 (Elgin) and less than 500 for Stranraer, when they play each other it's a 300 mile / at least 6 hour journey.

Evert fan in the land will tell you "We always struggle against the bottom tams".

Quite a large crowd there today; from the PUFC site; Half-time: Bristol Rovers 0-1 Peterborough United Full-time: Bristol Rovers 0-2 Peterborough United Attendance: 8,714 (602 Posh fans)

Canaries are generally satisfied with the point https://forum.pinkun.com/index.php?/topic/156330-official-match-thread-norwich-v-bristol-city/page/3/#comments Hmm. Frustrating afternoon. Have to take the point and be grateful a couple of offside decisions went our way. Bristol a bit hard done by. Hanging on with the skin of our teeth - but still a good point Bristol won practically every ball in Central midfield in front of their box but we couldn’t win any balls in front of our box - we have to get a quality CDM in the summer Take the point. I thought they edged it over the course of the match.

Says a lot for City's performance the home fans booed the end result.

And the commentators are even handed with their remarks. Pleasing to hear them also praise the number of visiting supporters

http://www.fawanews.com/Norwich City vs Bristol City.html is working for those wishing to watch from afar.

Looking back; an unique occurred in the league table. 74/75 Sunderland, City and WBA were 4th, 5th & 6th respectively. 12 months later in 75/76 The same three were 1st, 2nd & 3rd respectively A few years later when 3pts for a win was introduced, Bolton fans claim they and City would have gone up. Sunderland would still be Champs with WBA 2nd. Bolton would have pipped City to third spot as City W 19 D 15 which would have produced 72 pts today. Bolton W 20 D 12 which also would produce 72 pts and they had a better goal diff.

7' 52" onwards;

The open top bus parade;

The players were still drunk. It was a surreal experience, going into AG knowing we were now a Div 1 team. A few months later before THAT 1-0 win at Highbury, City lost 2-0 at Reading in a warm up game.

Think back to the early 90's just before the Prem started. Div 4 & 3 had 24 clubs in each, Divs 2 & 1 22 each. The lower wo divs were considered Associate Members and for voting had four four votes between them. The top two divs were Full Members and had a vote each. The Associate members requested one vote each and the clubs then in Div 1, got together and suggested a formula that the rest of the League accepted. Div 4 clubs - 1 vote each, Div 3 - 3 votes each, Div 2 - 6 votes each and the Div 1 clubs would have 12 votes each. The 22 Div 1 clubs working together would out vote the other seventy clubs in the League. At the same meeting they pushed through "Each club will keep 100% of gate receipts". Until then gate receipts were split three ways. The majority went to the home team, some to the visitors and a third portion into a central pot submitted to the League. The central pots from each team were added together and at the end of the season split into 92 equal portions, one for each team.

That was my point; City do not scout in their own area.