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This is the time of goodwill to all men. Please give Manning a chance in the job of managing/coaching the club. I'm going to post the above on the Portsmouth forum nearer Christmas in the hope they come in and take him off our hands like they did with Pulis years ago. Hopefully, we will soon be spared of this turgid football Manning and the Lansdowns have foisted upon us.

But that was AFTER Roberts had been inexplicably dropped in favour of McCarthy after his match winning performance on debut at Oldham. Yes, it was petulant. But I rather think had it not been for the fact he was dropped he would've acted differently. The proof of the pudding is that not long afterwards Roberts was playing and scoring in the Premier League whereas I was watching McCarthy playing for Truro v Mangotsfield United at Cossham St.

Roberts and McCarthy were signed on loan roughly at the same time, iirc as replacements for Shaun Goater. Roberts made his full debut in a televised game at Oldham and scored in a win, teaming up well with Gregory Goodridge. We played Carlisle next at home and John Ward inexplicably dropped Roberts and replaced him with McCarthy who looked overweight. McCarthy did very little. Roberts came on as a late sub in a one nil win and I remember the Carlisle defenders were bouncing off of him. He was very impressive. Trouble was his nose had been put out of joint being dropped for the unfit McCarthy, simply due to the latter's experience and went AWOL. I blame us going up as runners up instead of champions on that decision. Didn't understand it at the time and still don't.

I think that would be unfair on the camel

In Wales that would be considered rather daring.

Nige would sort it out.

No worries, it's an easy mistake to make. I used to use the question about the only non-league club to have won the FA Cup (since the FL started in 1888), that being Spurs in 1901. But stopped using it when I came to realize that Spurs were a fully professional club in an alternative league to the Football League. So weren't really 'non-league' as we class it today and since 1919. Nowadays non league means below the four tiers of the Football League, but back then there was no pyramid at all. In fact many of the early charity shield matches were played between the winners of the Football League and Southern League.

The Southern League wasn't amatuer. When Bristol City were in it before joining the Northern based Football League in 1901 the players were professionals. Basically, back then there were two professional football leagues, the Southern based Southern League and the Northern based Football League. The Football League had the strongest teams and eventually won out after the Great War when many of the Southern League sides joined the much expanded Football League. But the Southern League had many strong teams the equal of Football League sides, hence Tottenham Hotspur winning the FA Cup as a Southern League side in 1901.

You've spoiled it for me. Couldn't you have included a spoiler alert?

I'm somewhat with Sweeney's Penalties on this one. Okay, several of you give examples of countries that play in colours not on their flag. However, the home nations, England excepted, all play in the colour that is predominant on their flag, Ireland also being the case. England play in the colours of The Union Jack, not the flag of St. George. England are also the only nation that plays the anthem of Great Britain and not an anthem for England. It rather smacks of England promoting being British with their kit and anthem while the other countries that are part of Britain project their own national identities in both the colours of their kit and their anthem.

It should be easier for Spurs to employ the offside trap now.

You should've just waited until the end of the over, like the Aussies, and let your wicket keeper run him out when he left the crease to chat to his fellow batsman.

Good point, I actually thought it didn't deserve a red in 98, hardly any force behind the kick, it was more a flick that then pole axed the usually robust Simone.

It was serious foul play plus he was fortunate to be still on the pitch after a petulant kick on a Chelsea player minutes earlier. Similar to Beckham in 1998.

I will be looking to increase the confidence of the Bristol City players. I thought I had achieved that earlier this season when they put five goals past my team at Ashton Gate.

The day of reckoning will be May 4th, when we have either made the top six or we haven't.

Fair enough, nothing against you personally and if it proves to be correct more power to your elbow and thanks for informing us. But there have been several ITKs dropping hints for instance that the new head coach has German connections and cannot find any German connections with Manning. (It will probably be revealed later that his house was wired using material made in Berlin.)

Someone came on and said that it's definitely going to be Manning and provided a time frame for when it would be announced. That's all it seems to take. Thank goodness social media wasn't around in the blitz. There'd be constant ITKs telling us when the next air raid was due. We would never emerge from our shelters. Although, thinking about it that wouldn't happen because if an ITK got it right about the next raid they'd be promptly arrested, tortured in the Tower of London and hung as a spy within a week.

Not arriving via the airport, jumping out of a plane over Ashton Court, being picked up there. All kindly thanks to Leeds United who have provided some of their parachute payments.

He was interviewed for the position so that was more than just speculation.

I agree with all of you who express doubts and there's no concrete evidence but as I post earlier it's also telling that with all these rumours escalating to the point where it's making the nationals that there hasn't been a single denial yet from either party. Plus, it's very rare when appointing a new manager that the news of the appointment is confirmed in any way before it's officially confirmed.

Good point but if it was nonsense they wouldn't give it credence.

Check Google. Input Frank Lampard Bristol City and you'll see that several of the nationals are running with it. I'm guessing they still employ journalists unless it's AI.

Who wants to be known as Bristol City let's just check, oh, they're managed by some dude called Liam Manning when we could be known as: Frank Lampard's Bristol City.

Oh dear. I have received some itk info. I shouldn't really be sharing this but. Yes, Frank Lampard is likely to be appointed the new Bristol City boss. But it's Frank Lampard Senior!