He could never manage City, just as Johnson could never have gone to Rovers. At the first sign of anything going wrong, the fans would be on his back. The other thing is, he is not just someone who was once associated with the gas. He supported them as a boy, played for them, managed them and used an open top bus tour to insult City. Oh, and at the moment only two-thirds of Bristol football fans hate him. Take the City job and all Bristol football fans would hate him, for different reasons.