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Slightly related… a little over 20 years ago, in France, I met an Australian guy who was travelling through Europe watching football everywhere he went. He’d recently travelled over from England where he’d been staying with some relatives in a place well off the usual tourist trail. I want to say Scunthorpe but can exactly remember.

Anyway, he was telling me how he’d been to a game there and the halftime entertainment of a “wonder dog” was being heavily hyped all day.

At half-time, a man in a trench coat came out onto the pitch with a small dog by his side. They walked out to the centre spot, where the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a tennis ball. He held it high above his head, turning to present it to all four sides of the ground. He then threw the tennis ball as hard as he could. The dog ran off, fetched it and brought it back to its owner. The owner lifted the ball high above his head and presented it to the crowd once more before putting it back in his pocket and walking off the pitch.

The fans went wild.

On 25/03/2023 at 02:03, Not Banksy said:

New academy graduates photos showing the quality of the new training gear also… Iron on your own badge I see.. guessing that square has been left by the printing

I’m not sure what all the fuss is about. The club did say they were looking at getting in five transfers from lower league football. Everyone’s just assumed they meant players, not iron on badges.

It’s amazing the difference a manufacturer can make. The similar in many ways Aberdeen kits by Adidas look great.

15 hours ago, GrahamC said:

I’d say having that many followers was more the sort of claim that Rovers would falsely make.

This is a genuine claim for Corinthians over in Brazil. They have more than 30million registered fans, and a whole lot more unregistered.

Nike did a campaign for them around this fact. They realised that the population of Corinthian fans was bigger than that of 150+ countries, so they created a new nation - Republica Popular do Corinthians. Well worth watching if you have 3 minutes: 

4 hours ago, RedRock said:

It’s almost as if the shirt manufacturer misread the design instructions!

When you combine the overwhelmingly positive sentiment towards the Hummel kits, the way they let us down and the announcement of a new, untested (in football) supplier the creative brief for this kit really should have been: "Don't do anything stupid".

Unfortunately, we did.

5 hours ago, freezer said:

Think someone has just found a stock photo of a Robin in flight and went with it. 

Shame the all important colouration isn't present though. 

Good spot. I took the illustration from a t-shirt on the club shop and placed it over the top.

It is a bad tracing of this exact image

Two days ago, I was thinking to myself: “I ******* hate that robin”.

Now it’s on the front of our kit.
 

I don’t even want to look at it, it annoys me that much.

Having a look at the football clubs they do provide kits for, I noticed that  Robinstown FC was one of them. Wonder if they’d consider lending us their badge for the Hirerite kit?

Absolutely loved Buster. Even after all this time, I can still picture his barrel chested sprints onto the pitch and the well-deserved cheer that accompanied them. Legend.

I remember a flurry of Leicester fans hopping on the forum when NP joined and one of them pretty much nailed it… it will take a bit of time but he’ll build a squad ready to run through brick walls for the shirt.

*EDIT - posted full article then noticed someone else already had*

As per title:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/sports/soccer/bristol-city-penalty-kicks.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

4 minutes ago, Packman said:

Apparently he talks a bit about Alex Scott. Does anybody know at what point this starts?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone posted that on Twitter earlier: 

19 minutes ago, Never to the dark side said:

Nice one,first time I have seen these podcasts,by the way who are the other four lads?

Si Ferry - played for Celtic, then down in England - most notably under DiCanio at Swindon.

Paul “Slaney” Slane - Motherwell wonder kid who scored in the Europa when he was 17, I think. Moved to Celtic but suffered career ending injuries before it really began.

Andy Halliday - Middlesbrough, Blackpool, Bradford, Rangers… currently at Hearts.

Big Kevin Kyle - Sunderland, Coventry, Wolves, Kilmarnock, Hearts, Rangers…

Between them, they’re an encyclopaedia of football and given the teams they played for, you can sometimes get a few insights into some current and former BCFC players.

Si Ferry has a great two part Under the Cosh, mostly talking about how insane Di Canio was.

He’s also documenting his managerial journey which began at Peterhead but has now moved to the podcast funded Broomhill.

I’d also recommend Si Ferry and Slaney interviewing Carragher. They get him to open up and I found it very interesting despite having no interest in Carragher or Liverpool.

Beyond that, just jump in. They do a few each week.

I have an interest in Scottish football and listen to most of the Open Goal episodes. They’re funny lads who, from time to time, throw out little stories about Kal that give a glimpse into Bristol City.

Nothing too deep, but it has been reassuring over the season to hear that Kal is loving Bristol, BCFC and he thinks the squad is unbelievable (in the best possible way).

News just in on his injury. Apparently both his feet have turned into stumps… they lactose.

I like a joke as much as the next man but remember we’re talking about a real person, with real feelings, who has just suffered a potentially serious injury.

I don’t think he will be a-moo-sed by all this cow-medy.

57 minutes ago, sglosbcfc said:

It doesn't get much bigger than Bristol City v Aldershot, no wonder you were hooked! 

I was back in Bristol over Christmas and New Years. My mum still had a box of my stuff in the garage that included some of my City programmes from the 80s and 90s. This is where it all began…

I was very briefly a Man City “fan”. I’m originally from Glasgow and moved down to Bristol when I was ten.

Back then parents who were less fanatical about football - including my mum - would buy their kids any kit other than Rangers/Celtic to avoid the possibility of trouble. That year, even though me and my brother were Partick Thistlle fans - she got me a red and black check Man City away kit (I have no idea why, but great kit to be fair).

A few days after moving to Bristol, I was wearing the kit in the beer garden of The Farmhouse in Nailsea. Out of nowhere, Eddie Large came up and started talking to me about Man City and how good my kit was. As a ten year old I was genuinely star struck.

Not long after, I got taken to watch Bristol City vs Aldershot and that was the end of that.

I listen to a few Scottish football podcasts and they’re all sure that Hibs will be in a relegation battle this season.

It’s a basket case of a club at the moment but LJ hasn’t been helping matters by all accounts.

I don’t think he’s been bombed out. He’s not the future and he’s less physically robust, so was never going to be playing that regularly.

He seems like a model pro and a very popular member of the squad. He’s there if we need him to play but we don’t, so I’m almost certain he’d be helping develop the next phase of youngsters coming through via training and advice.

Overall, the type of senior members we’ve recruited under NP seems to come with an expectation that they will lead and teach. Much better than the money grabbers of the past.

1 hour ago, Fordy62 said:

Not gonna lie. I’m pretty jealous of you. 

Don’t be. I can get an equally emotional reaction if a coffee is cold, or a train is late

1 hour ago, spudski said:

Your wife has a very valid point.

I think she does. It was a terrible non-atmosphere today. I ordinarily wake up at 2am each week to be disappointed by City, so can understand the frustration… but if you’re paying cash to be in the ground, surely you’d give it your all. 
 

I was sat next to a guy today who moaned from kick-off to final whistle, slagging every player off and comparing everything to Spurs and how much better they were. I appreciate different opinions but don’t understand why you’d pay a decent chunk of money to do that.

1 hour ago, Porto Red said:

Lucky you. Brazilian women are the most beautiful in the world in my eyes and living in Portugal I've been lucky enough to date a few, can't get one to marry me yet though. This could have something to do with them being half my age I suppose

Get yourself to Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Portuguese is pretty much the native language.