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To be fair, yes Rovers were bottom of Div 3 South when the final ball was kicked in the 1939-40 season, but due to Hitler's invasion of Poland the season was abandoned after just three matches.

Glad it wasn't just me. A few minutes earlier the picture froze and I am just wondering if after that we were being fed pictures a second or two behind the audio. As you said, Pearce was telling us the penalty kick had been saved the moment the ball was about to be struck by the taker.

Quite agree and to compound it a second yellow too. I wish a referee when told by VAR to check on the monitor would be brave enough to stick with their original decision rather than submitting to the whims of the VAR official.

A Modeste model too.

From what I have read on here about the shambles at St Andrews I'm guessing it was their first team.

And we bought him back, via Leicester, in 1976/77 for the exact same amount.

Paul Allen played for us. Clive Allen had part of a pre-season with us and played in an away friendly game I am sure it was against a league club. I think he might even have scored, but he decided to quit the game as he was no longer fit enough. A few years later I think he was on Sky Sports when Bristol City were mentioned and Clive Allen chipped in by saying that he played his last game for Bristol City (albeit that it was a pre-season friendly). Coincidentally, Clive Allen made his first league appearance as a sub against Bristol City at Ashton Gate where he was marked by Norman Hunter

I think Clive Allen's last game for a professional club was for us in a pre-season friendly.

Norway have brought on a more defensive player for the second half. You can see they're going to try and restrict England to about ten

I think Cashley was still with City then. I have found highlights of the game and Ipswich definitely equalised to make it 2-2 with a late goal. Turner scored both their goals. Nogbad's memory is partially correct but instead of seeing dejected Rovers fans because they thought they had lost 1-2 and didn't know about a late Rovers equaliser, they were dejected because they had conceded a late equaliser.

I was at the City Man City game but don't recall it being a Friday. I went with a Gashead mate to the Rovers Ipswich game played in the snow with an orange ball. I was in the Tote End and cheered when Ipswich equalised to make it 2-2 with about five minutes to go. So I think you're wrong their Nogbad. Rovers were 2-1 up it was Ipswich who got the late equaliser.

Thanks Spudski I was pretty well convinced City (TV AM Robins) played in red that day against the PFA Trotters in Bolton Wanderers white.

Great idea the only downside is that instead of highlights being on ITV 4 or Quest they'd be on dubious German porn channels.

The way England have been playing recently the rest of us will only be watching 270 minutes of it.

England win

Perhaps the cleverest thing to have done in the circumstances was hit it against the ref who would then have given a drop ball to England

Just think how much worse it would be if Wimbledon were in the Championship or even Premier League

My late father lived in Whitchurch at the time and residents of Whitchurch and Hengrove were sent details of the plans as well as free tickets to Ashton Gate.

I've got it on BBC iPlayer as it also says it's on the red button but couldn't find it there, just Wimbledon

Thank you all for your replies and especially Lrrr for his insights. It has given me food for thought. It has made me think about the futility of the packing stats for as you say it is something that only comes to light after a game. Obviously, it is something that teams, judging by the stats for packing, should strive for, but as you intimate it's the sort of thing everyone in a game worth their salt endeavours to do. Even in the walking football I play if given the option of a straightforward pass alongside to a colleague or a pass that splits the defence and cuts out five opponents I choose the latter as it scores magnificently on the bragging stakes. As Sheltons Army alludes to, it's interesting to guage how much analysis is used. It almost feels like a scientist with no football brain at all could produce a successful team just by implementing the masses of statistics available in the right way along with consultations with the coaches and fitness staff. But, in an ever increasing era dependent upon analysis, what about individuals such as Cloughie etc who simply have a nose for management and can assess situations and make the right call or approach and overcome a problem by using processes totally out of the box. It's fascinating and I would like to think that although it seems approaches to the game will become increasingly scientific that there will still be a role for the maverick to play in our beautiful game.

Exactly the same happened to me, like yourself it lasted for two months.

Just read Football Hackers by Christoph Biermann about the revolution in football statistics and analysis. It really seems to have become an industry and pretty well everything seems to be analysed these days including the personalities of players and the right mix of characteristics in a team to achieve the optimum result. I found the chapter on 'packing' particularly interesting, not only did it include the contributions of our ex player Jens Hegeler in this field it also explained why 'packing’ statistics (completed passes that cut out players) is far more reliable as a statistic as teams with the highest packing stat in a match win far, far more often than those with the best passing or possession stats. (Obviously the best stat to determine which side is most likely to win is goals scored!) It was an eye opener as to how many statistics are used and the variety of different facets this analysis covers with some clubs funding stat companies. I suppose this one is more for our own Davefevs, but does anyone know where City stand as a club in the scheme of things? Are we stat and analytics sceptics or do we fully endorse this new approach to gaining an advantage. Plus where do we stand in relation to other Championship clubs in the use of this. I would imagine under LJ we were embracing this with open arms.

I honestly don't think that Davefevs is a sycophantic. I cannot recall him ever saying he's an Alfred Hitchcock fan.

In 2001 Mangotsfield United played Lewes in the 4th (final) qualifying round of the FA Cup. 1500 at Cossham Street. The Mango fans were singing 'We've got David Seal' and 'Feed the Seal and he will score'. At the end of the match it was nil nil and a Lewes fan piped up about David Seal saying that Mangotsfield could keep him and a fat lot of good he did. I thought it was disrespectful to an ex-Bristol City striker so what they have done now doesn't surprise me. Mangotsfield United lost the replay two nil.

The bizarre thing was we signed Sammie Szmodics a week or so earlier. He was happy to join City and make the step up and we were happy to have him, it looked a promising signing. Then we splashed out £4M for Palmer in the same position and suddenly we were debating who to loan Szmodics to!! It really illustrated that there wasn't a coherent plan backstage at Ashton Gate. As for the signing itself and the fact the club lost out massively my thoughts upon it, like the fee Coventry have 'paid' will best remain undisclosed