City Rocker

Hey Bart, Bruno, Thomas & Frederic Hope you have a great day out at our beloved football club and in our brilliant city. Many of us in Bristol are keen on the idea of frictionless trade and travel with our European neighbours. Perhaps we could get together with Belgium and a few others and form a kind of 'European union' or a 'common market', if you will, and we'd all be better off wouldn't we? What you reckon babs?

A brilliant away day. I didn't know Preston fans sang 'Flint Said No' to Swindon. Bless them!

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Hussain AlSaeed: "Hold my pint..."

What had they done? We were over on the right and couldn't really see what was going on. The way the police and stewards were mobbing up you'd have thought there was a riot, but it really was all quite mild.

Now is the time to yield a sigh - Yield it! Yield it!

Yep, I would go along with that. I'll be at the game this afternoon, and as much as we all hope for an end-to-end thriller packed with incident and goals every time, I would be just as delighted to sneak a 1-0 with a fortunate deflection off Nahki's knackers from a yard out in the 96th minute

@Jimmyjimmy OH!

Loving Beyonce's cover of Blackbird (or 'Blackbiird', if you will).

I suggested the name Joseph for my first child, accidentally forgetting to explain to the then wife that it was inspired by the names two of my biggest heroes. Anyway, she went for it, and we celebrate Joe's 33rd birthday in a couple of weeks!

I was at this game, I believe it was Good Friday 1985, my first visit to Home Park. We lost 1-0 I think, and my memories include their mob trying to get out through the locked gates before the game to have a go at us in their car park, and also having lumps of concrete thrown at us during the game. Welcome to the mild south west. I trust those going tomorrow enjoy more pleasant day out all round

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Take your point. So we're agreed it ain't happening, but even if it did, there is little chance of getting a credible replacement.

On what evidence do you believe that might happen? Serious question!

Precisely. It is difficult to imagine a less 'brave' brand of football than what we've been treated to recently.

I've just rediscovered my sprightly young 'theme tune' during a YouTube jaunt, which reminded me of when I first got the the internet, well over 25 years ago. The first web search I ever made (on Netscape Navigator IIRC) was 'Bristol City'. I discovered some weird and wonderful places, like CybeReds, the Bristol City Net Centre, and a very primitive version OTIB. My second search was The Clash, where I found some equally oddball sites, including one called Clash City Rockers. What all these static, read-only Web 1.0 pages had in common were rudimentary message boards where visitors could comment and discuss their subject, but you couldn't sign up and register a user name. But people did come up with clever pseudonyms, which they would type in afresh, each time they posted a message. And so my first internet nickname was born from my first two searches on the 'information superhighway'. Of course, we've all moved on now.

I only just spotted this, but it's streaming live on youtube this evening from 7. Tickets £16.50. One of my favourite ever radio shows, from the halcyon days before Radio 1 was shut down They said it would never happen. Some said it should never happen… Yet here we are. 24th March 2004 saw the world heritage radio site of the Mark and Lard show come to an end with a resounding ‘STOP…’! Now, a full 20 years later, we can finally say an equally resounding ‘…CARRY ON’! Like the day Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon (if you were born then – if not, skip this bit), or when Alan Bradley got run over by a Blackpool tram on Coronation Street (ditto), everybody can remember where they were on that fateful day in Radio 1 history. Listening to the radio. Obviously. Now, following high level negotiations after a chance meeting between Fat Harry White and Scoff Cruddle at a Bedford Rascal Enthusiasts rally, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley have been coaxed back into the world of light entertainment. You are invited to join them for ‘Carry On: An Evening with Mark and Lard‘. This will be the first time the same-sex Krankies of the airwaves will reveal what went on behind the scenes of what Dave Bowie (of the Dave Bowie Band) called: THE show’! The ordeal will begin at 1900 hours, assuming everyone gets their act together. Long time close showbiz friend of the pair, though she tends to play this down these days, Katie Puckrik will host an hour-long conversation with the former wireless heart-throbs, which will be followed by a short intermission. After re-centring themselves over a crystal, Mark and Lard will then submit to a no-holds barred probing, taking questions from both the theatre and interweb audiences. See you all soon! www.markandlard.com

https://sports-10.com/west-brom-bristol-city/ is working.

Wow, my City history is identical to yours mate; started going in 76/77, season ticket since about 2000, and yes, I too have missed more games this season than for a very long time. It's not just City though, football is nothing like the game I loved as a youngster, on or off the pitch. Many would argue it's much better in all ways now than in the 70s, and they're probably right too. It just doesn't excite me like it did then. That said, I am going today, and my biggest hope is that I won't be coming away with that crushing disappointment that the last few games have brought

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Ha! I remember those games well. If anyone had told me that was as good as it would ever get, I might have saved a lifetime of misery and got into croquet or curling or lacrosse or something.

Well this sums up the last 40-odd seasons, but let's at least afford Manning the time Nige had to shape his team and culture.

Great story! I'd read before that Sid lived down that way for a while (I thought Weston) with his mum when he was a kid. They also had a stint on Ibiza. I seem to recall hearing about one of his mates (could have been Jah Wobble or one of the Johns) saying Sid came back to school in London with a west country accent. Can you imagine?! "Ere Nancy, where's me smack babs?"

He was big in the seventies. Indeed, he's pretty hefty today. (copyright: The Bountyhunter)

Actually thinking about it, the Nolan sister incident at Torquay was a few seasons later wasn't it? The one when those City lads borrowed a boat from the harbour?