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He was offside in relation to the defender he was next to, but there was a centre back in the box playing him on.

Nigel was asked whether there was anything in the fact that HNM is stuck on 99 league appearances. (20.33) As soon as he hears "99", he shoots the reporter a black look, and quickly looks away and starts fiddling with his cup. Then he acts all bluff and genial, saying he does not know anything about that, and he wouldn't know about contract details like that. Sorry, but that is nonsense. If a manager picks a player for the 100th time that triggers a payment to their former club, it would be the most appalling dereliction of duty on behalf of the club if the manager just did that by accident because he had not been told about that detail. Of course a manager knows whether there is such a clause in the contract, as he is the one picking the team. And considering how careful the club is about money, to pretend he knows nothing about whether the clause exists or not is nonsense. Then he pretends he does not even understand the relevance of the question, all the while being overly bluff and friendly and genial. It all looks as if he is dodging the issue, so I reckon there is such a clause.

I remember going to the New Den in 2000 and losing 4-1. Alex Meechan tapped in after a Peter Beadle screamer from 35 yards hit the bar. The Millwall fans were singing it even then. When was the original written?

Lansdown and Carey fell out when after the 2004 play off final, they offered Carey a smaller contract. He was furious, claiming he was a loyal servant of the club who deserved better, and doubly furious when new players, who had done nothing for the club, were coming in on more. He said his bit, went to Coventry, and then they had to offer him a rise anyway to get him back. So he is not one of Steve's favourites like Tinnion, Murray, Millen, Johnson, Holden, which is why he has never been offered a job here. Carey explained this on a Stanley podcast, I think. He still sounded furious about it!!!

Also against Swindon, next season, Tinnion smashes one in with his left foot from miles out 02.45. Tinnion looks more comfortable 30 yards out on his left foot than with a close range tap in on his right foot.

Indeed, I remember when Tony Thorpe set him up against Swindon with a chance on his right foot. He had to take it first time and had to use his right foot. He nearly fell over!!! Did score though. 07.40

This screamer from Mickey Bell is on his weaker foot!!! Against Cardiff too. 56.20.

The Athletic article says "If all goes well, a deal could be arranged this week." The Bristol Post said after Swansea away 'Pearson was also asked whether there had been an update on outgoings in the squad in which he suggested nothing that changed although he hints about potential movement next week. "No. Not really," he said. "There’s nothing further to add, there’s lots of tentative talk but I would expect things to maybe develop over the next week or so, but no guarantees. I won’t be speculating anymore until something is worth reporting.” ' Sounds like they could both be talking about the same thing.

"Come all without, come all within. You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn." Newcastle fans used to sing this about Micky Quinn because 1. He scored four goals on his debut. 2. He was indeed mighty fat.

Anyone got a link to the Radio Bristol interview?

Come on without, come on within. You've not seen nothing like the Mighty Pring.

Callum O'Dowda gives Cardiff a late lead against Wigan.

Come on without, come on within. You've not seen nothing like the Mighty Pring.

Milan Djuric. 1.8 mill. Gustav Engvall 1.6 mill. Marley Watkins 1 mill. Liam Walsh 1 mill. Kasey Palmer 3.5 mill. Callum O'Dowda 1.2 mill. That is about 10 million, and most of these guys hardly played. It is the sheer waste of that era that stays with me.

Under Lansdown Bristol City Football Club has become just a jigsaw piece in a land-based speculative profit-motivated multi-sporting franchise.

Great post. Is it true that Hargreaves was the visionary dynamic with the ideas, and Lansdown was the bean counter who followed behind him, made sure the sums added up, and did the donkey work of implementing the great ideas? If so that would explain why Lansdown has been successful in one field and not another. Interested in your thoughts.

There are only three Championship sides left in the competition - Blackburn, Bristol City, Burnley. So if we get through we will probably face a third tier side or a Premier League side. A third tier side gives us a great chance of progressing to the last 8, and then a Premier League side becomes more and more likely. While a Premier League side in the last 16 is a great draw anyway. So bearing in mind the teams left in the competition we should absolutely take this seriously and pick a strong side.

True, but let us try and look on the bright side. 1. 3 trips to Wembley (First Football League trophy win) 2. 2 trips to the Millenium Stadium (Second Football League trophy win with a record 40,000 fans there. No other club has taken more to the Millenium, because we filled some of Carlisle's allocation) 3. 2 trips to the new Wembley, play off final and third Football League trophy win, still a record. 4. League Cup semis as a third tier side. Clough's Forest. who won two cups, finished 3rd, and got to the FA Cup semis that season, could only beat us with a last minute og equaliser at their place, Walsh hitting the post, extra time, and a very late winner. 5. Fantastic promotion season of 1989/90 with two great wingers, and 34 goal hero Bob Taylor smashing in hat-tricks on the volley all over the place. 6. Knocking top division Chelsea 3-1 out of the FA Cup. First up on MOTD. 7. Going to Anfield and knocking Liverpool out of the FA Cup, who were 6th at the time. The Kop applaud the City players off. 8. Promotion again in 1997/8, with John Ward, Tinnion, Goater, Murray. Run of 12 wins and a draw in 13. 9. 100 goals plus under Danny Wilson in 2002/3. 11 straight wins the next season. 10. Promotion again under Gary Johnson in 2006/7, pipping Forest. 11. Nearly making the Premier League 3 times in 2007/8. 1. We were top with ten games to go. 2. If we had beaten Stoke away in game 45, we would have gone up. 3. Play off final. 12. Cruised the 3rd tier double of league and cup under Cotterill in 2014/5. 100 goals and 100 points (almost). 13. Knocked Man U, Mourinho, Pogba, Ibrahimovic out of the league cup 2-1 with a wonder goal and a last minute winner. Second in league on Boxing Day. 14. Another League Cup semi. Guardiola's Man City are the best team in Europe, smashing 6 and 7 every week. We go to their place, go 1-0 up, and only lose to a last minute goal. Next day 7 Premier League call our manager and ask for advice on how to play Man City. In the second leg we are 2-2 with a minute to go, and only lose the tie 5-3 overall. 15. Some great players to watch over the years. Walsh. Smith. Taylor. Morgan. Jacki. Cole. Barnard. Tinnion. Bell. Goater. Murray. Akinbiyi. Thorpe. Lita. Maynard etc etc etc. There are a lot of football clubs that have never done all that.

Yep. And patently obviously to people at the club at the time, who were watching him in the reserves. Like Tinnion.

The Russian language does not have a separate word for 'football fans'. Instead it just calls them 'sufferers'.

The only thing Brian Clough ever said to his centre backs was 'head and tackle'. It sounds so obvious. Why even bother saying it? Well, City are one down because Naismith didn't head the ball.

The maddening thing about the Swindon away game was that Christian Roberts was playing the game of his life and ripping Swindon to shreds. They equalised and immediately Wilson took off Roberts and brought on Lee Miller. When the chance came to Miller he hadn't been running around, in the flow of the game, with his head and his legs connected, and he missed. Roberts would have buried it but Wilson had taken him off. Another maddening thing about that season is that all we had to do was beat Brighton once in two games, one at home, and one at a neutral venue. One defeat and one win would have done it. But we couldn't. Another maddening thing is how easy it would have been to go up that season if we had not sold Scott Murray. The season before he had scored 26 goals from the right wing. We had scored 106 goals in total, league and cup in 2002/3. All we had to do was tighten the defence, which we did by playing centre-backs at fullback. Carey played right back and Hill played left back. We only conceded 37 goals in 46 league games in 2003/4. With last season's attack did we then cruise to promotion? No. Because Steve Lansdown has two heads, a football fan's head and an accountant's head. Scott Murray was in the last year of his contract, so Lansdown the accountant took £600 000 from Reading for Murray. If that money was really necessary for the club to survive then you accept that, but the next day Lansdown put his football fan's head back on and spent that money on Lee Miller and Luke Wilshire, who were both useless. It would have been better to keep Murray, even if you lose him for nothing a year later, because his extra goals would easily have got us the extra points for promotion. At which point he would probably have signed a new contract anyway. Oh and by the way, we re-signed Murray anyway along with Tony Rougier and Darren Caskey ten months later, waiving some of his fee from Reading, so a 'financial' decision made us no money at all, and cost us our best player and promotion. But this sort of thing happens often with Steve "accountant-head football fan-heart" Lansdown. The decisions sort of cancel themselves out and you get the worst of both worlds. I am horribly biased, but I still think to this day if Mickey Bell and Brian Tinnion had been playing in the top division, they would have been picked for England. Both could cross perfectly left-footed, with Beckham-esque curl on the cross, and could put free kicks and penalties in the top corner at will. England needed left sided players in that era too. I remember sitting away at Leicester amongst the home fans, and they were amazed when Tinnion hit the bar twice from two 30 yard free kicks. Something died in me that day at the Millenium stadium. I've hardly been back since.

That's all I want from my football team. Playing good football, goals, and a win. Not bothered about a new badge that looks like a robin on a unicycle. Not bothered about what you call the training ground. Not even that bothered about which division you are in. You still play half your games in the same stadium. Goals, good football, and a win. That'll do me.

We play five at the back where the two wing backs, Sykes and Dasilva, aren't really top defenders in the sense of dominating their opponent and heading and tackling. We then have another weak link in Vyner. This defence only has two midfielders in front of it for protection. You are asking for it.

Goalkeeper - Right Back - LUKE AYLING. Sold for £200, 000. Left Back - JOE BRYAN. Sold for 6 million. Centre Back - ADAM WEBSTER. Sold for 21 million. Centre Back - LLOYD KELLY. Sold for 13 million. Centre Midfield - MARLON PACK. Sold for 4 million. Centre Midfield - KOREY SMITH. Sold for................no wait..................given away for free to Swansea by Mark Ashton. Right Midfield - JOSH BROWNHILL. Sold for 9 million. Left Midfield - NICOLAS ELIASSON. Sold for 2.2 million. Centre Forward - BOBBY REID. Sold for 10 million. Centre Forward - JONATHAN KODJIA. Sold for 15 million. SUBSTITUTE ADEN FLINT - Sold for 7 million. NUMBER OF THOSE PLAYERS THAT WENT ON TO PLAY IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE - Seven. TOTAL MONEY RECEIVED. - 87.4 million. TOTAL CHANCE OF PROMOTION NOW THAT YOU HAVE SOLD ALL YOUR BEST PLAYERS AND GIVEN THE MONEY TO JOHNSON AND ASHTON TO WASTE ON GUSTAV ENGVALL, MARLEY WATKINS, MILAN DJURIC, ADAM NAGY, JAY DASILVA, KASEY PALMER, AND NAKHI WELLS. - Zero.