Jefferz

Is the dark-haired coach Kenny Phillips who did some scouting for the City back in the 70s?

I’m keen to point out that my offer of a wager some weeks ago still stands. Wrexham to play in the Premier league before. Bristol City

Come on, a win is a win but the Mehmeti shot was pretty poor and the keeper had a shocker.

I see your robin and raise you a black cat in the garden wars

Proposal currently under (serious) consideration

Overloaded them!! What, has he asked them to read Principia Mathematica? Do me a favour

Any takers for a bet: I propose that Wrexham have a better chance of making the Premier league than Bristol City

The training for professional football is brutal isn’t it? Those skipping groin looseners are a killer!

I agree with all the considered points you make in your first post but I’m arguing for a sense of proportion at the same time as striving for success. If we are hysterical about promotion it hardly leaves any room to actually enjoy the games when we play well and critique sensibly when we fall short. when you say ‘what’s the point of following a club with no chance of success’ I refer you to the loyal fans from 1913 and Billy Wedlocks followers to 1976 and those of us who were ecstatic at promotion. That’s a lot of fans who stuck by the club in those years.

I agree that we should strive for success but do you have a solution. Would you like to be owned by a foreign repressive regime with human rights abuses. Why has no one come in to buy the club.?

Thanks for this excellent compilation as I wondered how he’d got on. Looks like a young Gascoigne. Can’t say more than that!

I felt the same when Keith Fear scored against Leeds in the FA cup

Against the background of Premier league football and billions of investment in the elite game, our fans yearning for promotion and a seat at the top table seems nothing more than a fantasy. it got me thinking about the late 1960s when I first watched the City with Mike Gibson, Jack Connor, Chris Crowe, John Galley etc and the fans enjoyed the ups and downs of second division football. We’d have good days and not so good days and we’d catch a glimpse of former greats like Johnny Haynes at the back end of their careers but I don’t remember any hysteria about playing in the first division: nothing like the almost rabid, frothing at the mouth you get on the forum. We wanted success for the club and we wanted them to play good football. Of course, things changed in the mid-seventies and there was a growing excitement about our prospects culminating in promotion. The boys were brilliant in staying up for as long as they did with Gerry Gow as our driving force. The injury to Paul Cheesely was heart breaking for everyone. But my point is that the promotion seems now almost as unlikely as the Leicester City Premier league title. The subsequent demotions and the financial catastrophe that followed really sending the club into near fatal tail spin. I suppose those with better memories and more knowledge will be able to explain the ‘76 success and the set of circumstances that produced the promotion in the hope of using the same blue print. For me, the prospect is light years away. We have a billionaire owner who has given the club millions regardless of peoples opinions. What will it take to transform our fortunes? Let’s not forget that the second city of the country, Birmingham have fared little better. Im starting to feel sorry for the promoted clubs like Luton and Burnley. Surely, our fate would be the same even in the unlikely event of promotion. (As Ian said on the FBC podcast, it’s the same churn of failed managers recycling failure as they go on their merry way from job to job. my suggestion would be to drop the ludicrous idea of imminent promotion and get behind the players trying their best for a club riven with injuries. We are not Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. We all watch them play on Sky and marvel at their pace and skill. The Chamionship is not on the level. It’s like comparing Usain Bolt with a club runner from Westbury Harriers

Just watched Sky highlights. We didn’t have one.

Yes. England V Wales 1969 at Ashton Gate . Definitive