Jerseybean

Thank you SL starts at 18:30

KN post-match: https://youtu.be/3fINEKTtfmo

As per title: https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/65427847

NP: https://youtu.be/rzSVHuuPTxc

Burnley have been in charge throughout that half without having to really break sweat and could be 2 or 3 ahead. Benson, with a carbon copy of his strike v Blackburn, is a class act. Thought Pring had a good half otherwise we’ve been second best, too easily giving the ball away, outplayed in midfield and have lacked any threat up front, despite their keeper taking a chance or two. Be tempted to switch formation and bring on Wells for SB or HC and AW for AK. Hope we can, at the least, come out with a bit of urgency and fight in the second half, otherwise it will be a disappointing end to our home games.

Sheffield Utd added to the list - https://www.sheffieldunited.news/news/sheffield-united-tracking-unbelievable-30m-man-alex-scott/

Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/apr/28/bristol-city-alex-scott-transfer-target-elite-efl-young-player-year-jack-grealish?fbclid=IwAR08nY3TMsvLOsLhffs-Ci7q_LI4Aqq8zXjoiYyv3vsZjWSR0rJ08124IFI

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65344699

Burnley perspective: https://www.uptheclarets.com/clarets-off-down-to-bristol-for-the-last-away-trip

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/worth-at-least-double-that-former-portsmouth-midfielders-ps2m-asking-price-slammed-as-he-closes-in-on-bristol-city-move-4123937

Programme: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/weimanns-words-in-the-robins-online-programme/

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/brighton-transfer-bristol-city-star-8395419

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/rob-atkinson-bristol-city-contract-8397860?utm_source=bristol_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=bcfc_newsletter2&utm_medium=email

Oh Major I have misunderstood all these years! Obviously appreciating there’s only only team in Bristol I also naturally assumed for 60+ years there’s only one City.

Talk here of a loan back arrangement personally can’t see it happening, but would be brilliant if it was possible: https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/exclusive-bristol-city-eye-particular-alex-scott-agreement-as-west-ham-and-liverpool-circle/

Our final home game of the season, against a team we won’t face next season in the league and it's likely to be the last time supporters will watch Alex Scott grace the field at Ashton Gate in a Bristol City shirt. Kalas will feature in the squad, he too may be making his final home City appearance. There will be a crowd of 22,000+. Last weekend they lost at home, for the first time this season, when Chris Martin made it 2-1 to QPR (our next opponents) in the 87th minute! In a game in which Burnley had 81% of possession. They have dominated the league and on 10 April celebrated their return to the Premier League with victory over second-placed Sheffield United. On Tuesday they were crowned as champions when they beat East Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers 1-0, it’s just 12 miles between the two places and for them to become Champions of the Championship at Ewood Park was a bit special. Kompany said after the game ‘not sure if all the players yet understand what it means for the people of Burnley to come and win the league at Ewood Park, for us you couldn't write it.’ They beat us 2-1 back in September in that game Burnley enjoyed 72 per cent of the ball in total, the result left us in ninth place (on 14 points) and them on 17 points and in fourth place. Highlights: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/highlights-burnley-2-1-bristol-city/ NP ahead of this game: TC pre-match: In June 2022 Vincent Kompany replaced Sean Dyche, who had been at the helm since 2012. As a player Dyche left Chesterfield for Bristol City in 1997, helping us win promotion to Division One in his first season. City were relegated the following season, he made a total of 17 appearances for us. Kompany began his professional career at Anderlecht; having graduated from their youth system, he was with the club for three seasons as a first team player before moving to Bundesliga club Hamburg in 2006. In the summer of 2008, he completed a transfer to Manchester City, where he established himself as an integral part of the squad and was regarded as one of the bargain buys of the revolutionised City era, blossoming into one of the league's best centre-backs. In the 2011–12 season he was awarded the captaincy of City, leading his club to win the Premier League that season, their first league title in 44 years. Kompany was included in the Premier League Team of the Year for two years in a row in 2011 and 2012 as well as being included in the 2014 team, and won the Premier League Player of the Season in 2012, and is regarded as one of the best defenders in English football history. He earned 89 caps for Belgium in a fifteen-year international career, having made his debut in 2004 at the age of 17. He was part of their squad that came fourth at the 2008 Olympics as well as going to the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and 2018, coming a best-ever third at the latter. He was captain from 2010. In 2019, when his contract expired after 11 years at City, Kompany returned to Anderlecht as player-manager. A year later, he announced his retirement from professional football and became the first-team manager. He was apparently one of the managers on Chelsea's shortlist for their new permanent head coach. David Webb has the whistle for his 38th match of the 2022/23 campaign. Webb has issued 113 yellows and nine red cards - one every 4.2 matches, four of those dismissals have been in his last seven games. This will be his third City fixture of the season. History Founder members of the Football League, Burnley Football Club actually started life as a Rugby Club. Burnley Rovers switched codes and became Burnley Football Club in 1882 at a meeting held at the Bull Hotel. Initially the team played at Calder Vale but they moved to their Turf Moor home shortly afterwards, at the invitation of the Town’s Cricket Club. F.A. Cup campaigns led to organised football in 1888 with the foundation of the Football League and since then Burnley have claimed every major domestic honour with the exception of the League Cup. The nickname “Clarets” refers to the celebrated club colours. Burnley have not always played in their famous claret and blue though. The first colours were black and yellow stripes earning the club the nickname “Hornets”. This kit was recreated by the club as a third one to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Burnley for the 2002-03 season. Green followed and as it is said to be an unlucky colour 1911 saw the introduction of claret and blue, in pursuit of the success displayed by Aston Villa at that time. Changing to claret and blue certainly changed Burnley’s fortunes as they beat Liverpool 1-0 in the 1914 FA Cup Final, the first one ever attended by a reigning monarch. Diplomatically, as both teams were from Lancashire, the King wore a red rose that day. It is interesting of note that all white was worn for a few games when rationing during the war meant dye was too expensive. The people of the town gave their clothes rations to the club so that the clarets could return before the end of the war. Over recent times the club has experimented with variations of the claret and blue theme, moving away from the traditional claret with blue sleeves à la Villa – they have been seen in plain claret with blue trim, claret with a blue V, and even a rather unpopular claret and blue quartered shirt, but in the end tradition holds strong, and the colours that Burnley won the Cup in 1914 and the League title in 1960 are still the favourite of the fans at Turf Moor. Burnley took up a modification of the town’s coat of arms as their first insignia. The blue wavy line represents the river Brun. The wheat signifies the rurality of the former Burnley Rural District. The hand represents the town of Burnley’s motto Hold to the Truth, derived from that of the Towneley’s family “Tenez le Vraye” The Towneley’s had for long been associated with the Burnley area. That all too familiar lion popping up again, an heraldic symbol depicted in untold varieties in various coats of arms, mainly as a supporter. In the original coat of arms of Burnley two lions from the Delacy family act as supporters. But this lion represents royalty, Turf Moor being the first ground to have been visited by a monarch when in 1886 Prince Albert watched the first half of Burnley v Bolton. Quite why he didn’t stay for the second half isn’t clear – perhaps the pies weren’t up to much. This visit by the way added another nickname for a short time: The Royalites. To complete the menagerie there’s a stork on top of the badge. It is the punning stork of the Starkies, prominent in Padiham and the Burnley rural area. In its mouth it holds the Delacy knot, the badge of the aforementioned DeLacys, who held Burnley and Blackburnshire in medieval times. Our stork stands on a hill surrounded by cotton plants – the prime industry of the town to recent times. Today’s registered trademark was introduced in the 1970’s. The elements of the badge still have that significance to the town as well as to the football club. 1882 represents the year that Burnley Football Club was formed. The lions represent royalty as above. The bee represents the busy town and the saying ‘as busy as a bee’ and the Beehole end of the ground as it was called in days gone by. All derived of course from the B at the beginning of Burnley. The knight’s helmet represents two knighted families in Burnley, the Towneleys and the Shuttleworths at Gawthorpe, long associated with the Burnley area. The shuttle represents Burnley’s cotton industry heritage and is taken from the arms of the the Shuttleworth family, as seen in the Padiham device and the Rural District Council crest. The hand still stands for the towns’ motto. Head to head we’ve won 16, lost 19 and drawn 15. This was a memorable encounter: There are lots of players who have played for both clubs include Tom Heaton, John Brownhill and Nahki Wells, see photo for more. If you want to extend your vocabulary take a look at this and see the t shirt photo: https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/13-words-phrases-you-know-18145468 and if you need to polish up yer Bristle here you go: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/phrases-only-bristol-people-understand-7589?utm_source=bristol_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter2&utm_medium=email Enjoy the game fellow-Reds.

Cardiff 2-1 up Wigan v Reading Saturday is HUGE

Benson has just scored a screamer 1-0 Burnly

Highlights: https://youtu.be/Ny9_dGc1xx4

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-closing-first-summer-8379676

https://www.bristolworld.com/sport/football/bristol-city/the-lowdown-on-bristol-city-transfer-target-ross-mccrorie-and-how-much-he-could-cost-4106675