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I would be grateful if anyone can provide advice on this matter. On December 29th, my partner and I parked at Ashton Gate and bought items at the club shop and then had something to eat and drink in the cafe next door to the shop. In all over £100 was spent on Bristol City premises but today we have received a parking charge of £80 (£45 if it's paid early) for being there for nearly sixty minutes. This seems grossly unfair especially as we were dealing with the staff in the shop and at no time did anyone inform us that we needed to input a registration number (if that is the case).

Another positive is Welsh football fans at last didn't vandalise the toilets. At least no reports of it yet.

I don't think things are quite as dire as everyone seems to be making out as the addition of seven or eight new players in the transfer window will simply address these concerns

Get a message to Nigel to use the wings more

If they give penalties for that there would be about ten penalties every match. And even Bristol City might be awarded one every six months.

And calling the Argentinians animals

Yes came on for Martin Peters

You are right, I recall at the time it being said that Costa Rica were missing their top scorer, Saborio, through injury so I don't think he played at all in the Finals despite his goals getting them there

Stern John scored in 2006 World Cup but it was ruled out for offside (pre VAR) so it might really have been onside.

FIFA had to wait until Neil Warnock retired from management to implement this new strategy as they figured otherwise matches involving his teams wouldn't finish on the day they commenced and the end of the football season would have to be extended from May until mid-July.

Yes unfortunately James Brown didn't record a song called 'I don't feel quite so good now!'

Totally agree, it's worded to appear like the contracts they tore up were worth something. They would've been lucky to have received 5p in every pound they were owed as they would've been on a long list of those owed money. Thus if they had 20 months remaining on their contracts they'd have been fortunate to receive one month of that. They were promised the proceeds of a testimonial game if they tore up their contracts. Therefore they were faced with the option of demanding their contracts be honoured and get very little but have supporters of Bristol City forever blame them for killing off their club or tearing up their contracts and also receiving very little but at least not being blamed for destroying Bristol City and, as it transpired, being elevated to hero status. I'm not saying that I don't appreciate the fact they tore up their contracts but I do think it should be put into perspective and not mythologised as them having a dream to save the club. It was nothing of the sort. It was more like a nightmare they experienced.

My grandfather born in 1888 died in January 1963, I had been born six weeks earlier. Unfortunately I never physically met him (his first grandson after three granddaughters including my sister) because it was the big freeze of 62-63. Along with the postcard of City 1905 was a typed poem I think he composed called The Ditty of Bristol City about the FA Cup run of 1934-35. I will put it on here when I return to Bristol and turf it out.

Was the goal music you refer to 'I feel good' by James Brown? I had forgotten all about that but having read your post that song comes to mind.

My paternal grandfather was born in 1888. He died in 1963. When my grandmother died in 1976 we inherited a trunk of my grandfather's keepsakes including a postcard of the Bristol City record breaking team of 1905-06 rather the worse for wear. He was a City supporter all his life and I am guessing he was attending matches before that promotion season.

You trumped my suggestion which was going to be Bath City

I am fairly sure that Arsenal had a percentage of that profit so we emerged with less than a million. I got the impression at the time that the board just wanted rid of Cole as he was causing a few issues and jumped at the first half decent offer, Clough having offered a risible amount from Forest

I don't remember any fans, or hearing of any fans, waving fake tenners at a player but I do remember spectators waving at Steve Jones when he was subbed early by Pulis, and he had a fake tan.

RIP Rich condolences to his family and all who knew him.

It's a bit late for them to be signing Semenyo now anyway. They needed him last weekend at Anfield as would likely have finished 9-9 then.

It's similar with that model building magazine. First part introductory price 99p to build a model of The Flying Scotsman. I did that, then someone online pointed out that with subsequent editions of the magazine costing about £5.99 that to build the entire Flying Scotsman would cost about £1600. I thought 'No Way!' So I just had that first part, the front part of the Flying Scotsman then my only other expenditure was on the last part £5.99 for the back end of the famous steam loco, then I just built a tunnel out of paper mache and had the front part emerging from the tunnel and the back end just entering it. Et voilà The Flying Scotsman for under a tenner.

It's to annoy Tilly Vacher in Clifton for longer.

Yes, when Man Utd scored v City in that 1977 match the cheers went up from all four stands in the ground (although the United fan next to me in the East End remained quiet. The only reason I know he was a United fan was because when City scored he was even quieter). I was used to away fans only being in the Open End, so it was bizarre hearing cheers from everywhere in the ground and the fact that they were banned too! I think City's attempt to ban United fans was an unmitigated failure.

Man Utd were subject to a ban at Ashton Gate during the 1976-77 season I recall. There'd been hooliganism at their previous away matches. It was made all ticket with Utd fans not allowed to buy any. Most of the Open End was United that day and I was in the Covered End stood next to a quiet United fan! It finished 1-1, United's Houston broke a leg and Gow and McIlroy were sent off for fighting. Chris Garland scored our goal.

As Danny Blanchflower once said, we are scoring the equaliser first.