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Not many it seems. Probably got stopped trying to smuggle contraband on the border. What has happened to the forgotten man of Jonathan Leko?

In comparison looks like about 14,000 at St. Andrews.

18,212 very good crowd. Well done fellow fans

Cheers and very droll indeed

Scrappy game. Burton doing a good rearguard action as expected. Peter Beadle.. good co commentator.

Cotts 1 Colin 0

17 degrees, totally tropical. I can hear that grating announcer from here. Who is the co commentator? He's goooood.

George was of course magic and Marinello could and should have been; The attitude at Hibbs, he said, was win or lose, have some booze. In 1970 Bertie Mee took him to Arsenal for a hundred grand.. what a price in those days. Marinello in the shadow of The North Bank at Arsenal.. those were the days..

Tonight and perhaps Leeds next up. As I noted in my intro I was taken by Lee's somewhat reticence to be over confident, not always a bad thing, but it came across almost as negative or too cautious. I hope that does not carry into the pre and ht team talks.

Going to Burton, going for a burton and being as happy as Larry, dead or alive. Laurence Olivier famously remarked that he was as 'happy as Larry' after leaving Brighton following a season of performing there. Not considered a dump by any means but I think I would be happy too. As for Burton perhaps a lot easier to be happy to leave notwithstanding the superb array, even to this day, of beers which I wrote about in a match day back in August 2016. 'Going for a burton' has somewhat lost its use in recent decades. It seems popular to suggest one of the following might be responsible for the origins of the expression; To 'go for a burton' refers to the beer brewed in the Midlands town of Burton-upon-Trent, which was and still is famous for its breweries. RAF pilots who crashed, especially those who crashed into the sea, that is, 'in the drink', were said to have 'gone for a burton'. Some commentators have referred to a pre-WWII advert for Burton's Ale, in which a place at table was vacant and the missing person was said to have 'gone for a Burton', that is, gone to the pub for a drink. That would be a very strong candidate as the origin of the expression if only any record of the adverts were to be found - and surely they would be evident if they ever existed. Until any do come to light it's reasonable to call the said adverts mythical. 'Go for a burton' is a reference to the suits made by Montague Burton, who supplied the majority of the demobilization suits that British servicemen were given on leaving service after WWII. (Note: Monty is also a contender as the source of the Full Monty). Any serviceman who was absent could have been said to have 'gone for a burton'. This does seem the less likely of the two explanations, as it doesn't quite match the meaning of the phrase. 'Gone for a burton' was used to mean dead, not merely absent, and Montague Burton didn't supply shrouds, as far as I know. The first sounds more palatable to me http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/178595-the-official-burton-albion-v-bristol-city-match-day-thread/ Burton Albion Football Club is on a marvelous adventure that the Brewers and the Taylors will know all about from their previously humble beginnings. In Burton's last set of accounts at Companies House they made a gross profit for the year ended 31st May 2016 of just over a £1 million. That is no small achievement especially when it is on a meagre turnover of £4.2 million. They are probably most fans' second club in the Championship in terms of, shall we say, likeability. Everybody likes an underdog and for a club, founded only in 1950 to be playing in the Championship, the 5th best league in the world, frankly, is astonishing. Perhaps the biggest blemish on their copy book is the record defeat to a certain Bristol Rovers. Now, correct me if I am being too partial here, but don't you think most Burton fans would prefer to have that record set by a far more illustrious football team like, for example, Bristol City? In short, if our club thrash them tonight at Ashton Gate by a greater margin than the Gas mob then every Burton fan deserves to buy every City fan a bottle of Burton Ale. I mean, the ignominy of having that record from a League 1 or perhaps it was a league 2 team hanging like a cloud over one's head. It is a bit shameful. I think there is little left for me to say this wet Manila evening other than to wish the lads well and hope Lee Johnson conveys a far more positive team talk than he did when interviewed about the match yesterday. Short and sweet. I'm going for a Burton. See y'all.

I thought it worked for them very well.

Yep.. delighted we are still keeping up with last season..

Superb result for City. Banished the bogey ground.

Got it back here too.

Do you have to register? do you have a link please?

A fellow poster posted the following and it worked for a while now its down.. http://live.robinwidget.org/streamvideo8/ipswich-vs-bristol-city-live-stream-4470813.html any others?

He even looks like a thug to be fair.

Did you mention something about Ryan Air? I just heard an ad from them.. "low fares made simple" ... are they havin' a larf? Now of all timings? Has that Irish tishpot no shame?

Vinegar does sound a whole lot better in Spanish don't you think?

How so? is the pitch waterlogged?

Leko will come on score and settle the nerves.

Legal vengeance with only psychological brain damage to the losers. Eximious squire. Tis eximious. Thanks all the same. I was going to like the post but that felt wrong with that last remark. Awfully negative of you Pegs. ;( According to my research no the operative word here being 'continuous'. But do dig deeper and let me know.

OK so I did post this on the 'Ipswich' thread but I think it might be more an interesting comparative read here:- Nov 10th, 2007.. There were just over 22,000 at Portman Road for that match and a very decent City away following. They will have nothing like that attendance today. We were 1 down on 5 minutes thanks to a Jon Walters goal which hit the back of the net as soon as i got to my seat slightly late for kick off. 2-0 down on 15 with a David Wright goal and the cacophony of noise was so demoralising. But City dug in for the rest of the half thankfully only to utterly capitulate early in the second just when we all thought right, now the fight back. 3-0 on 48 minutes with a Tommy Miller penalty.. Bradley Orr was it who brought down Walters? He was sent off for that. Down to 10 and 3 down.. Some City fans had seen enough and walked out in the 48th minute! I had never seen that before. Jon Walters again on 55 and the trickle started to become a real steady flow of leavers. I had a long drive back to London to contemplate, let alone the brave souls going to Bristol, but I paid my money and I stayed hoping for one goal. It never came. 5-0 on 65 minutes by Pablo Counago and Walters got his hattrick after 72 minutes to make it a really humiliating 6-0 thrashing. City were totally outclassed. I want vengeance today. Bury the ghost of that nightmare City because Johnson and McAllister played that day and they must have it on their conscience. City started the match in 4th and Ipswich in 6th. They must have wondered how on earth we were above them in the table; I sincerely hope we feel the same about them at 5pm today. By the way Trundle was an unused sub with Byfield and Sproule up front.

Starting to smell too at this time of year is it not Tone? Get your old banger Citroen BX out of there and back to the calm of the Dordogne.