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ROB NS<br />
2021/22 OFFICIAL BRISTOL CITY DIGITAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME<br />
TERRY<br />
COOPER<br />
1944-2021<br />
v BLACKPOOL<br />
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP<br />
ASHTON GATE | SAT AUG 07 | 3PM<br />
PRINCIPAL PARTNER<br />
MATCH SPONSOR
ROBINS IN<br />
FOCUS<br />
23<br />
TAYLO R<br />
MOORE<br />
AGE: 24<br />
POSITION: Centre-back<br />
JOINED: August 2016<br />
DID YOU<br />
KNOW?<br />
The centre-back spent the<br />
second half of the 2019/20<br />
season on loan with the<br />
Tangerines, making nine<br />
appearances in total between<br />
February and March. The<br />
campaign would be cut<br />
short due to the Covid-19<br />
pandemic, and he made<br />
his final appearance for<br />
<strong>Blackpool</strong> against Tranmere<br />
Rovers. The Walthamstowborn<br />
defender, who played<br />
his youth football in France,<br />
scored his first and currently<br />
only goal for <strong>City</strong>, in a raindrenched<br />
3-3 draw away<br />
at Preston North End in<br />
September 2019.<br />
THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong> | 3
THE<br />
GAFFER<br />
NIGEL<br />
PEARSON<br />
4 | THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong>
It really is a great honour to be here<br />
today, at the start of a new season with<br />
supporters back to fill Ashton Gate. It’s<br />
a return to relative normality, it’s good to<br />
have that matchday feeling back and it’s<br />
been a very long time coming.<br />
I want everybody to connect and create a positive<br />
atmosphere as we aim to start the season positively<br />
and build off the back<br />
of what has been a<br />
very good pre-season.<br />
The players<br />
responded to the<br />
demands and<br />
expectations really<br />
well and we saw<br />
improved fitness<br />
levels over the course<br />
of pre-season. These<br />
were important<br />
training sessions<br />
with a competitive<br />
edge, and I thought<br />
the players gave<br />
good accounts<br />
of themselves in<br />
different scenarios.<br />
I was deeply saddened by the news of Terry<br />
Cooper’s passing last weekend and it is right that<br />
we show our respects to a man who did so much<br />
for this football club, so please join us in a minute’s<br />
applause ahead of kick-off. I’m sure it will be an<br />
emotional moment that will reflect the fanbases’<br />
connection to Terry and our thoughts are with his<br />
family and friends.<br />
Thank you for your support last weekend and thank<br />
you again if you are here for the opening match of<br />
YOU HAVE BEEN<br />
SORELY MISSED<br />
AND WE’RE<br />
ALL LOOKING<br />
FORWARD TO<br />
HEARING YOU<br />
IN FULL VOICE<br />
OVER THE NEXT<br />
TEN MONTHS<br />
the season against <strong>Blackpool</strong>. We all know how<br />
much the club and the fanbase mean to each other,<br />
you have been sorely missed and we’re all looking<br />
forward to hearing you in full voice over the next 10<br />
months.<br />
I am proud to say every member of the squad<br />
will be taking the knee ahead of each kick-off this<br />
season. They will form a tight group around the<br />
centre circle in a<br />
show of solidarity<br />
against all forms of<br />
discrimination. This<br />
was a conscious<br />
decision led by the<br />
players and myself<br />
and the staff rightly<br />
support their efforts.<br />
It’s a long journey<br />
ahead starting<br />
against a <strong>Blackpool</strong><br />
team who put<br />
together a strong<br />
run of results to<br />
earn promotion from<br />
League One. Neil<br />
Critchley and his staff<br />
did magnificently,<br />
especially as that<br />
was Neil’s first full season as manager there, and I<br />
expect a difficult opening game.<br />
However, I know what this squad is capable of, we<br />
know the levels the players are at and I expect us<br />
to meet the challenges and demands head on. Let’s<br />
make it a good one.<br />
Cheers,<br />
Nige<br />
THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong> | 5
HERE’S<br />
A ST AT<br />
I BET<br />
YOU<br />
DIDN’T<br />
KN<br />
W
OVER HALF A MILLION<br />
SKY BET CUSTOMERS USE DEPOSIT LIMITS<br />
TO MANAGE THEIR BETTING BUDGET.<br />
THAT’S ENOUGH TO FILL:<br />
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201 ALLY PALLYS.<br />
OR 8 CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP DAYS.<br />
(THAT’S A LOT OF TWEED)<br />
ALL GOOD BOOKMAKERS<br />
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SO WHOEVER YOU BET WITH,<br />
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AND THEN ENJOY THE SPORT.<br />
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THAT’S BETTING BETTER.
BLACKPOOL<br />
FORMED<br />
1887<br />
GROUND<br />
CLUB FACTS<br />
BLOOMFIELD ROAD<br />
MANAGER<br />
NEIL<br />
CRITCHLEY<br />
Newly-promoted <strong>Blackpool</strong> are in BS3<br />
to kickstart their campaign back in the<br />
Championship. The League One play-off<br />
winners were in fine form in the latter half<br />
of last season, losing only twice from<br />
mid-February, and they look to pick up<br />
where they left off on the back of their<br />
promotion wave…<br />
NICKNAME<br />
THE SEASIDERS,<br />
THE TANGERINES<br />
HONOURS<br />
1 2 1<br />
Highest league finish:<br />
Runners-up, 1955/56<br />
FA Cup winners: 1952/53<br />
Football League Trophy winners:<br />
2001/02, 2003/04<br />
Anglo-Italian Cup: 1971<br />
Second tier title winners: 1929/30<br />
Second tier play-off winners: 2009/10<br />
Third tier play-off winners:<br />
2006/07, 2020/21<br />
Fourth tier play-off winners:<br />
1991/1992, 2000/01, 2016/17<br />
<strong>Blackpool</strong> celebrate winning<br />
promotion at Wembley in May<br />
8 | THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong>
V<br />
Today’s fixture is the first between<br />
the two teams since March 2nd<br />
2013. It was a goalless draw<br />
in the Championship, chiefly<br />
remembered for Tom Heaton’s<br />
superb save to deny a header<br />
from Kirk Broadfoot. The result<br />
kept <strong>City</strong> two points from safety at<br />
the time, but the campaign would<br />
ultimately end in relegation.<br />
HEAD TO HEAD<br />
95<br />
MATCHES PLAYED<br />
Best victory: 5-0, December 1903<br />
Worst defeat: 1-7, October 1929<br />
Last <strong>City</strong> win: September 2009<br />
2020/21 IN NUMBERS<br />
CITY v BLACKPOOL<br />
W<br />
36<br />
38 %<br />
WIN RATE<br />
D<br />
27<br />
L<br />
32<br />
57<br />
GOALS<br />
SCORED<br />
73<br />
GOALS<br />
CONCEDED<br />
LEAGUE<br />
POSITION<br />
R5<br />
19 TH<br />
YELLOW<br />
54 3<br />
CARDS<br />
R3<br />
RED<br />
CARDS<br />
74<br />
GOALS<br />
SCORED<br />
42<br />
GOALS<br />
CONCEDED<br />
POSITION<br />
R4<br />
YELLOW<br />
67 4<br />
CARDS<br />
3 RD<br />
PLAY-OFF<br />
WINNERS<br />
R1<br />
RED<br />
CARDS<br />
11<br />
TOP SCORER<br />
NAKHI WELLS<br />
6<br />
MOST ASSISTS<br />
ANTOINE<br />
SEMENYO<br />
23<br />
TOP SCORER<br />
JERRY YATES<br />
10<br />
MOST ASSISTS<br />
SULLAY<br />
KAIKAI<br />
POSSESSION<br />
47.3 %<br />
PASSING PERCENTAGE<br />
6.95<br />
BEST AVERAGE<br />
RATING (OPTA)<br />
TOMAS KALAS<br />
7.21<br />
BEST AVERAGE<br />
RATING (OPTA)<br />
DANNY BALLARD<br />
POSSESSION<br />
49.5 %<br />
PASSING PERCENTAGE<br />
70.5 %<br />
71.3 %<br />
TACKLE SUCCESS<br />
TACKLE SUCCESS<br />
LEAGUE ONE CHAMPIONSHIP<br />
61.2 %<br />
AVERAGE AERIAL<br />
DUELS WON<br />
24.4<br />
75.5 %<br />
AVERAGE AERIAL<br />
DUELS WON<br />
24<br />
THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong> | 9
BLACKPOOL<br />
KEY PLAYER<br />
JERRY<br />
YATE S<br />
Last season was Yates’ first for<br />
the Tangerines after completing<br />
a switch from Rotherham<br />
United. He ended the campaign<br />
as top goalscorer with 23 goals<br />
in all competitions, despite<br />
a slow start without finding<br />
the back of the net in his first<br />
11 appearances. The 24-yearold<br />
Doncaster-born forward<br />
has not previously played at<br />
Championship level, after loan<br />
spells with Swindon Town<br />
(where he scored 14 goals from<br />
36 appearances in 2019/20),<br />
Carlisle United and Harrogate<br />
Town in past seasons.<br />
10 | THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong>
DID YOU<br />
KNOW?<br />
Whilst a <strong>Blackpool</strong> player, Sir Stanley Matthews – hero<br />
of the 1953 FA Cup final win over Bolton Wanderers –<br />
was the inaugural winner of the Ballon d’Or in 1956.<br />
THE TANGERINES ARE BACK IN THE<br />
SECOND TIER FOR THE FIRST TIME<br />
SINCE THEIR RELEGATION IN 2015.<br />
IN THAT TIME, THEY’VE SPENT ALL<br />
BUT ONE SEASON IN LEAGUE ONE,<br />
BOUNCING STRAIGHT BACK UP FROM A DROP<br />
INTO LEAGUE TWO IN 2016.<br />
The 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20 campaigns<br />
saw <strong>Blackpool</strong> finish around the midtable mark,<br />
but fine form – with a nine-game winning run<br />
amid a 16-game unbeaten streak – helped them<br />
to a third-placed finish last term and a play-off<br />
spot at long last.<br />
A top six finish was secured on the final<br />
day of the season in a 1-0 win over<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> Rovers, which was a fourth<br />
consecutive clean sheet as well.<br />
The Seasiders met Oxford United in<br />
the semi-final, who they beat<br />
6-3 on aggregate, winning<br />
3-0 at home before a 3-3<br />
draw in which former <strong>City</strong><br />
striker Matty Taylor, as well<br />
as Nigel Pearson’s new<br />
signing Rob Atkinson,<br />
scored for the U’s. But<br />
<strong>Blackpool</strong> earned their<br />
place at Wembley where<br />
a brace from Kenny<br />
Dougall secured a 2-1<br />
win over Lincoln <strong>City</strong>,<br />
as they overcame an<br />
opening-minute setback.<br />
It was the perfect conclusion to Neil Critchley's<br />
first full season in charge at Bloomfield Road, the<br />
former Liverpool Under-23s boss having taken<br />
over from Simon Grayson in March 2020.<br />
The summer transfer window has welcomed eight<br />
new players to Bloomfield Road including<br />
Josh Bowler (Everton), Oliver Casey (Leeds<br />
United) and veteran defender Richard<br />
Keogh (Huddersfield Town) as well as<br />
left-back Reece James, the brother of<br />
<strong>City</strong>’s own Matty James.<br />
Winger Sullay Kaikai has been<br />
among the outgoings, moving to<br />
Wycombe Wanderers, while<br />
goalscorer Ellis Simms has<br />
returned to parent club<br />
Everton though 20 -year-old<br />
Arsenal forward Tyreece<br />
John-Jules has come in<br />
on loan.<br />
The Seasiders ended<br />
their pre-season schedule<br />
with a behind-closed-doors<br />
friendly against Manchester<br />
<strong>City</strong> on Wednesday.<br />
4 New arrival: Former Robins<br />
defender Richard Keogh<br />
THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong> | 11
THANK YOU TO OUR<br />
PARTNERS<br />
PRINCIPAL<br />
ELITE<br />
SUPPORTING
SEASON<br />
PREVIEW<br />
New signing Rob Atkinson has<br />
impressed in League One with<br />
Oxford United<br />
IT’S THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CHAPTER<br />
AS THE CLUB SITS ON THE CUSP OF THE<br />
2021/22 SEASON...<br />
ROBINS<br />
REBUILD<br />
Nigel Pearson takes<br />
charge of the team<br />
having agreed a<br />
three-year deal in the summer,<br />
the players and staff have<br />
settled into life at the Robins<br />
High Performance Centre and<br />
there’s a sense of optimism and<br />
new opportunity as the club<br />
rebuilds.<br />
Pearson has tapped into his<br />
Leicester <strong>City</strong> past with the<br />
arrivals of Premier League<br />
winners Matty James and<br />
Andy King as well as Head of<br />
Medical Performance Dave<br />
Rennie, while Rob Atkinson<br />
joined from Oxford United with<br />
the defender impressing in the<br />
lower league of English football.<br />
Several players would depart<br />
but the Robins secured new<br />
deals for Danny Simpson,<br />
Andreas Weimann and Nathan<br />
Baker – all ensure experience is<br />
retained within the club and the<br />
trio will be pushing themselves to<br />
avoid the injuries of last term.<br />
Rennie’s task of improving the<br />
fitness of players has already<br />
come to the fore, with the players<br />
put through their paces (and<br />
then some) during pre-season.<br />
It was evident in the friendly<br />
matches, notably <strong>City</strong>’s<br />
ability to fight back<br />
in the 3-3 draw with<br />
Portsmouth, and the<br />
valiant efforts of the<br />
second half against<br />
Aston Villa, for example.<br />
Half of those pre-season<br />
encounters showed off the HPC<br />
in all its glory too. The players<br />
and staff have settled into their<br />
new surroundings, particularly in<br />
pre-season, with ease and much<br />
has already been written about<br />
14 | THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong>
2021/22<br />
ARRIVALS<br />
Premier pedigree: Andy King and Danny Simpson – bottom right – were<br />
members of Leicester <strong>City</strong>'s 2015/16 Premier League winning squad.<br />
Top right: Head of Medical Performance David Rennie with Matty James.<br />
Matty James (free agent)<br />
Andy King (free agent)<br />
Rob Atkinson (Oxford Utd)<br />
Andi Weimann, Nathan<br />
Baker and Danny Simpson<br />
signed new contracts<br />
its first-class facilities, providing<br />
the foundations for the club to<br />
rise to the next level.<br />
There is little to be read into<br />
friendly results but the defeat<br />
to Villa showed there is always<br />
work to be done and, despite the<br />
scoreline, there were plenty of<br />
positives at the end of a good<br />
pre-season. Certainly, Pearson<br />
was encouraged by what he has<br />
seen from the group and after<br />
arriving in February he will be<br />
keen to see his philosophy begin<br />
to rub off.<br />
Then there is the influence of<br />
supporters with last season and<br />
the 2019/20 Project Restart<br />
played behind closed doors.<br />
The passion and the energy<br />
which comes from fans inside<br />
the stadium has truly been<br />
missed and it’s going to be quite<br />
the occasion when Saturday<br />
comes.<br />
Various reports suggested a<br />
lack of supporters impacted<br />
‘home advantage’ and a drop<br />
in the quality of football played<br />
across the game, so there’s<br />
excitement to be had in terms<br />
of how the Robins can bounce<br />
back after last season when<br />
supporters return for good.<br />
After more than 7,000 of<br />
you attended last weekend’s<br />
friendly, thousands more will<br />
pack BS3 for Saturday’s curtain<br />
raiser against newly-promoted<br />
<strong>Blackpool</strong>. They are joined by<br />
Hull <strong>City</strong> and Peterborough<br />
from League One, while coming<br />
down from the Premier League<br />
are Fulham, West Brom and<br />
Sheffield United.<br />
As Pearson has explained<br />
post-Villa, the aim is to start<br />
the season positively. Then the<br />
task is about maintaining the<br />
levels and expectation as well<br />
hurdling the challenges which<br />
the Championship throws up.<br />
Avoiding the first-team injuries<br />
of last term will be key, though<br />
the ability of the younger players<br />
to step up was pleasing to<br />
watch and expect to see some<br />
of them get their chance again.<br />
But the players look fit, robust<br />
and their important pre-season<br />
efforts could go a long way…<br />
may the hard work continue!<br />
THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong> | 15
PLAYER<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
THIS CHAMPIONSHIP OPENER IS A<br />
BIGGER OCCASION THAN USUAL FOR THE<br />
JAMES FAMILY AS BROTHERS MATTY AND<br />
REECE GO HEAD-TO-HEAD FOR THE FIRST<br />
TIME IN THEIR CAREERS…<br />
BROTHERLY<br />
LOVE<br />
Matty James<br />
couldn’t<br />
quite<br />
believe it<br />
when he saw the fixture list<br />
revealed at 9am on Thursday,<br />
June 25th, pitting the Robins<br />
up against <strong>Blackpool</strong> on the<br />
opening day of the 2021/22<br />
campaign.<br />
The midfielder had only signed<br />
for <strong>City</strong> two days earlier, while<br />
his brother Reece had become<br />
a Tangerine player only a few<br />
weeks prior.<br />
It has made the build-up to the<br />
match even more personal and<br />
exciting as James prepares to<br />
make his potential <strong>City</strong> debut in<br />
front of an Ashton Gate crowd.<br />
The James family are also set to<br />
be in the stands on what will be a<br />
rather emotional day in BS3.<br />
“I thought it was a joke when I<br />
saw the fixture list come out,”<br />
James told THE ROB NS.<br />
"We’ve never played against<br />
each other before so it will be<br />
emotional but exciting. It’s a<br />
home game at Ashton Gate so<br />
I’m excited to see fans back<br />
and hopefully we can get off to<br />
a good start with three points<br />
before a long season ahead.<br />
“We’ll have a lot of family there:<br />
Mum, Dad, my wife’s side, Reece’s<br />
wife’s side…so a lot of people!<br />
It’s a big occasion for the James<br />
family but at the same time it’s a<br />
game of football and there’s a job<br />
to be done from both myself and<br />
Reece. When the game starts it<br />
will be business as usual but we<br />
are looking forward to it and it will<br />
be a good day.<br />
“We’ve chatted a bit, no details<br />
about tactics or players because<br />
that would be unprofessional,<br />
but we’ve spoken about how<br />
we’ve settled in at our respective<br />
clubs. We speak every day, we’re<br />
extremely close and that will 4<br />
18 | THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong>
Words James Crawley<br />
THE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong> | 19
WHEN HE<br />
ARRIVES, WE’LL<br />
WISH EACH<br />
OTHER THE BEST,<br />
BUT THEN I’LL<br />
TELL HIM TO STAY<br />
AWAY FROM ME!<br />
4continue ahead of<br />
kick-off. I’ll see him when<br />
he arrives, show him where<br />
his family are sitting and<br />
we’ll wish each other the<br />
best, but then I’ll tell him to<br />
stay away from me!”<br />
James is reunited with<br />
Nigel Pearson and Dave<br />
Rennie – he worked<br />
alongside both at Leicester<br />
<strong>City</strong> – having arrived as a<br />
free agent in the summer.<br />
James explained both have<br />
been good for him adding:<br />
“They know my background,<br />
what makes me tick and<br />
I’ve enjoyed every minute<br />
working with them.<br />
“It’s been a really good<br />
pre-season with them, I’m<br />
in a new team, it’s a new<br />
chapter, a fresh start and<br />
I’m looking forward to the<br />
game starting now.”<br />
The curtain raiser – with<br />
fans back to watch<br />
competitive action for<br />
the first time since March<br />
2020 – comes off the<br />
back of a hard-going yet<br />
successful pre-season for<br />
the Robins, who were put<br />
through their paces at the<br />
Robins High Performance<br />
Centre as well as<br />
Loughborough University.<br />
James said: “I’ve done<br />
a few pre-seasons so<br />
you get fewer butterflies,<br />
you get used to what it’s<br />
about. There’s still the<br />
feeling of dread, in terms<br />
of have I done enough<br />
and wondering where<br />
you’re going to be in the<br />
pecking order, but it’s more<br />
can you come through it<br />
unscathed?<br />
“The demands are put on<br />
you straight away and the<br />
staff are there to make<br />
sure you stay injury-free<br />
during that process. It has<br />
been really tough but there<br />
was a shift in players, in<br />
CAREER HIGHS<br />
FEB 2009<br />
Scores inside ten minutes on his<br />
professional debut for Preston North End<br />
(loan) versus Sheffield United<br />
SEP-OCT 2009<br />
Plays for England at the Under-20s<br />
World Cup<br />
MAY 2014<br />
Promoted with Leicester <strong>City</strong> who are<br />
crowned the 2013/14 Championship winners<br />
and named Young Player Of The Year<br />
MAY 2021<br />
Scored and twice assisted in a 6-1 win for<br />
Coventry v Millwall, the joint biggest team<br />
victory of his career<br />
20 | T HE ROB NS <strong>Blackpool</strong>
PLAYER PROFILE<br />
2020/21 STATS<br />
6<br />
SQUAD NUMBER<br />
DOB: 22.07.1991<br />
Birthplace: Bacup<br />
Position: Midfielder<br />
Joined: Free agent, 23.06.2021<br />
APPEARANCES<br />
39<br />
GOALS<br />
3<br />
management and I think the<br />
manager wanted to set his<br />
intentions from day one.<br />
“We’ve seen the intensity he<br />
wants us to train and play<br />
at, so I feel really good and<br />
excited for the future.<br />
“It’s an amazing feeling to<br />
have signed for <strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
and I can’t wait to play in<br />
front of our fans. Everyone<br />
has been through a tough<br />
period, in life not just football<br />
but the game hasn’t been<br />
the same without fans, and<br />
it felt like training games in a<br />
stadium at times.<br />
“You can create your own<br />
adrenaline but there’s no<br />
feeling of the fans being<br />
right behind you when you’re<br />
1-0 up, or the same process<br />
if you’re 1-0 down and the<br />
fans push you on to get a<br />
draw or the win. I’m really<br />
excited to play in front of<br />
them and to get the season<br />
underway!”<br />
Above<br />
Reece James –<br />
younger brother<br />
of new <strong>City</strong><br />
signing Matty<br />
– in action<br />
for Doncaster<br />
Rovers<br />
Above left<br />
Matty in action<br />
during his home<br />
<strong>City</strong> debut in<br />
the pre-season<br />
friendly versus<br />
Aston VIlla<br />
Below right<br />
Playing for<br />
Leicester <strong>City</strong><br />
under Nigel<br />
Pearson against<br />
Everton in<br />
February 2015<br />
MINUTES<br />
PLAYED<br />
2,781<br />
2007-2012<br />
Youth<br />
2017, 2020-21<br />
Loan<br />
CAREER PATH<br />
2010, 2010-11<br />
Loan<br />
2021<br />
Loan<br />
ASSISTS<br />
3<br />
2012-21<br />
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<strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong>’s Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 2011<br />
by the Supporters Club & Trust. Two players were<br />
installed initially – BILLY WEDLOCK (1905-21) and<br />
JOHN ATYEO (1951-66), both pictured.<br />
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The others were The second group A third group, added<br />
elected by the fans, was elected in 2014 in 2017, honours<br />
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creating one player<br />
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by the era in which CIty's promotion to<br />
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for each position: they played:<br />
the top-flight in 1976:<br />
H Louis Carey H Mickey Bell H Ray Cashley<br />
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H Jack Boxley H Paul 1894<br />
Cheesley<br />
H Gerry Gow H Tommy Doherty H Gary Collier<br />
H Bobby Kellard H Alec Eisenträger H Brian Drysdale<br />
H Scott Murray H Geoff Merrick H John Emanuel<br />
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H Gerry Sweeney 1894<br />
H Rob Newman H Keith 1894<br />
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H Bob Taylor H Tom Ritchie H Donnie Gillies<br />
H Mike Thresher H Trevor Tainton H Jimmy Mann<br />
H Brian Tinnion H Alan Walsh H Clive Whitehead<br />
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H Alan Dicks *<br />
H Harry Dolman<br />
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* Alan Dicks was manager of the 1975/76 promotion team; Harry Dolman was chairman<br />
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between 1949-74 and president 1974-77 Each of the above players will receive due<br />
recognition in this column and a fourth group will be inducted during this season.<br />
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Roger Lucy – pictured with 1894<br />
his future wife Jane to 1894<br />
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granddaughter Jessica, aged nine game. Roger was a keen amateur<br />
– was a loyal <strong>City</strong> supporter for 65 footballer. He played for his school –<br />
years, who sadly lost his battle with <strong>Bristol</strong> Grammar – and then Knowle<br />
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aged 75. His son Tim said: “Roger Athletic and Roman Glass. He chose<br />
grew up in Knowle and first visited The Wurzels' One For the <strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
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footsteps and 1894<br />
Division Two clash away at Wolves on is today bringing his seven-year-old<br />
27th December 1965 when he took son Noah to his first game.<br />
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OBITUARY<br />
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TERRY<br />
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<strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong> was devastated to learn the<br />
passing of former player and manager<br />
Terry Cooper, whose death was<br />
confirmed a week ago.<br />
Cooper played for the club over two spells between<br />
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1978-1980 and 1982-1984, before the former England and<br />
Leeds United full-back ended his playing career at Ashton<br />
Gate.<br />
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He managed the Robins during its fight back from near<br />
extinction in 1982 and therefore played a vital role in<br />
helping the club progress to where it is today.<br />
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In 1986 he led his <strong>City</strong> team to Wembley for the very<br />
first time where Cooper oversaw a Freight Rover Trophy<br />
win over Bolton thanks to goals from Glyn Riley (2) and<br />
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Howard Pritchard.<br />
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to watch<br />
Cooper’s memorable post-match interview.<br />
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Cooper left the<br />
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club in 1988, continuing his managerial<br />
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career at Exeter <strong>City</strong> and Birmingham <strong>City</strong>. He had<br />
previously managed at <strong>Bristol</strong> Rovers prior to his<br />
appointment at <strong>City</strong>.<br />
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As a player, Cooper also represented <strong>Bristol</strong> Rovers, Leeds<br />
United, Middlesbrough and Doncaster Rovers.<br />
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at<br />
Finest hour: Cooper is held aloft by Brian Williams<br />
this difficult time. Please join us for a minute’s applause<br />
and Rob Newman at Wembley in 1986<br />
ahead of kick-off today as we pay our respects.<br />
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great Stanley Matthews – kept quiet<br />
Cartoons,<br />
by Mike Thresher – and it was his<br />
particularly in the 1 1<br />
short corner that lead to Bert Tindill<br />
inter-war period and<br />
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firing <strong>City</strong> in front after 1894<br />
17 minutes.<br />
thereafter until the<br />
FA Cup fourth round<br />
end of the 1964/65<br />
Unfortunately, nine minutes into<br />
season, were a<br />
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As <strong>Blackpool</strong> are the second-half Ray Charnley<br />
prominent part of<br />
our visitors, it forced in <strong>Blackpool</strong>’s equaliser and<br />
the sports coverage<br />
seems appropriate despite <strong>City</strong>’s best endeavours they<br />
in the <strong>Bristol</strong><br />
to start off with managed to hang on for a replay,<br />
newspapers.<br />
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this Bob Bennett carton from<br />
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the which the Seasiders won<br />
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1-0 in front<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> Evening Post two days after of a 25,933-strong crowd at a foggy<br />
In this new series<br />
the match when <strong>City</strong>’s biggest Bloomfield Road four days later.<br />
by club historian<br />
post-war crowd of 42,594 (receipts<br />
David Woods it is<br />
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£5,569.15s.6d.) were treated 1894<br />
to <strong>City</strong>: Cook; Hopkinson, 1894<br />
Thresher;<br />
hoped to show part<br />
what was described at the time as McCall, Alan Williams, Burden;<br />
of this extensive<br />
the best post-war FA Cup match Hinshelwood, Tindill, Atyeo,<br />
output while<br />
seen at Ashton Gate.<br />
Etheridge, Watkins.<br />
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Wright;<br />
regarding the<br />
<strong>City</strong>, in the unfamiliar blue of Cardiff, Hauser, Gratrix, Kelly; Matthews,<br />
applicable match.<br />
gave <strong>Blackpool</strong> a torrid afternoon. Mudie, Charnley, Durie, Perry.<br />
Wally Hinshelwood outshone the Referee: Ken Aston (Ilford).<br />
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In today's multimedia world, comprehensive coverage in a after their time here at Ashton<br />
the thoughts and opinions national publication. From our Gate. East End favourite Chris<br />
of our football heroes can 1954/55 Division Three (South) Garland, for example, had a good<br />
be viewed 24/7 across title-winning campaign there are spell at Chelsea following his<br />
a wide range of devices and countless images of Atyeo, Jackie £100,000 move from Ashton<br />
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and<br />
back to a time when their views Rogers and Bob Anderson. There was regularly featured in GOAL<br />
could only be found in weekly or is even a word from the former magazine, as were Joe Royle,<br />
monthly magazines and annuals. no-nonsense Arsenal defender Peter Cormack and Norman<br />
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us during<br />
While you have been topping trainer at the time. This theme our top-flight days from well<br />
up your tan this summer, I’ve was replicated when promotion established clubs like Manchester<br />
been having a good rummage to the second tier was achieved <strong>City</strong>, Liverpool and Leeds United.<br />
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through several stacks of these again in the mid-1960s.<br />
publications to rediscover what<br />
Besides the interviews of<br />
the likes of Alan Dicks, Geoff On the other hand, it’s not just individuals, there are also many<br />
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to. There is even an article from front-page action and a copious publications, where views are<br />
our first legend, Billy Wedlock. amount of black-and-white aired from those in charge. Good<br />
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the 1970s<br />
these dusty, dog-eared pages colour team photographs,<br />
and the much-loved Football<br />
it became all too clear that our especially amongst the pages of League Review.<br />
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would have had to be up towards<br />
The next issue will feature the<br />
the higher echelons – or indeed However, my aim is to expand thoughts of the Robins’ first<br />
be on the back of a good<br />
a little and take in what our superstar, Billy Wedlock…and you<br />
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CITY 0 0 0<br />
Cardiff 0 0 0<br />
Coventry 0 0 0<br />
Derby 0 0 0<br />
Fulham 0 0 0<br />
Huddersfield 0 0 0<br />
Hull 0 0 0<br />
Luton 0 0 0<br />
Middlesbro 0 0 0<br />
Millwall 0 0 0<br />
N Forest 0 0 0<br />
Peterboro 0 0 0<br />
Preston 0 0 0<br />
QPR 0 0 0<br />
Reading 0 0 0<br />
Sheff Utd 0 0 0<br />
Stoke 0 0 0<br />
Swansea 0 0 0<br />
West Brom 0 0 0<br />
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