Bristol City v Swansea City
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ROB NS 2021/22 OFFICIAL BRISTOL CITY DIGITAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME FOREVER RED REMEMBERING CITY’S LOVED ONES v SWANSEA CITY SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP ASHTON GATE | FRI AUG 20 | 7.45PM PRINCIPAL PARTNER MATCH SPONSOR
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ROB NS<br />
2021/22 OFFICIAL BRISTOL CITY DIGITAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME<br />
FOREVER RED<br />
REMEMBERING CITY’S LOVED ONES<br />
v SWANSEA CITY<br />
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP<br />
ASHTON GATE | FRI AUG 20 | 7.45PM<br />
PRINCIPAL PARTNER<br />
MATCH SPONSOR
ROBINS IN<br />
FOCUS<br />
18<br />
ANTOINE<br />
SEMENYO<br />
AGE: 21<br />
POSITION: Forward<br />
JOINED: September 2017<br />
DID YOU<br />
KNOW?<br />
Semenyo’s first three goals for the<br />
club came in cup competitions<br />
(Carabao Cup and FA Cup), with his<br />
first league goal coming against<br />
today’s opponents at the Liberty<br />
Stadium last season. It came<br />
in the 97th minute after Swans<br />
goalkeeper Freddie Woodman,<br />
upon receiving a pass from<br />
Jay Fulton, was closed down<br />
by Semenyo and the keeper’s<br />
clearance ricocheted off the<br />
forward back into the open net.<br />
The signing from SGS College<br />
went on to score in bizarre similar<br />
fashion a few weeks later when the<br />
Robins beat Birmingham <strong>City</strong> 3-0 at<br />
St Andrew’s.<br />
Pic: Semenyo celebrates his first league<br />
goal for the club at <strong>Swansea</strong> last season<br />
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THE<br />
GAFFER<br />
NIGEL<br />
PEARSON<br />
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A<br />
warm welcome to you<br />
all as we prepare for<br />
a big night under the<br />
lights here at Ashton<br />
Gate. It’s an occasion<br />
I am very much<br />
looking forward to and I know it will be a cracking<br />
atmosphere.<br />
Tuesday night but, backed by a sold-out away end<br />
of 2,178 supporters, we were able to secure those<br />
long-awaited three points. We took a two-goal lead<br />
and conceded another avoidable goal, as well as<br />
another late one, to make it a more nerve-racking<br />
experience. We saw the game out and got the<br />
rewards for a totally committed performance and<br />
that’s pivotal for the players.<br />
Tonight we remember<br />
those who are sadly<br />
no longer with us.<br />
We have lost many<br />
supporters, young<br />
and old, during<br />
the coronavirus<br />
pandemic and they are<br />
remembered here at<br />
Ashton Gate. Names<br />
and photos of our<br />
loved ones will be<br />
displayed on the big<br />
screens, on the LED<br />
boards and as many<br />
as we could inside<br />
the digital matchday<br />
programme too.<br />
Our hearts go out to everyone and our thoughts<br />
remain with the friends and families who have<br />
suffered such tragic losses.<br />
We welcome Russell Martin, his players, staff and<br />
all <strong>Swansea</strong> <strong>City</strong> supporters to Ashton Gate for<br />
this Sky Bet Championship fixture. I know they will<br />
be setting out to put their early disappointing run<br />
of form to an end so I expect it to be a challenging<br />
affair.<br />
Similarly, we were still searching for our first win<br />
of the season when we travelled to Reading on<br />
AT READING<br />
WE GOT THE<br />
REWARDS FOR<br />
A TOTALLY<br />
COMMITTED<br />
PERFORMANCE<br />
AND THAT'S<br />
PIVOTAL FOR<br />
THE PLAYERS<br />
At 3-2 I’m sure you were<br />
probably thinking ‘here<br />
we go again’ and there<br />
was certainly some of<br />
that anxiety shared on<br />
the touchline. However,<br />
that was a really good<br />
win for us and it was<br />
important that we<br />
looked back over what<br />
we did well and what we<br />
didn't do well – that’s<br />
something we do with<br />
all results.<br />
A special mention goes<br />
to Cameron Pring, who<br />
had a superb game<br />
on his Championship<br />
debut. He has not felt part of this club for a long<br />
time but he has done so well to put himself into<br />
contention. He received a wonderful round of<br />
applause in the dressing room after the game and<br />
that is testament to what he did on the night.<br />
Tonight is a chance to build on that performance<br />
and result, so please help us make it an enjoyable<br />
night and I hope you enjoy the game.<br />
Cheers,<br />
Nige<br />
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SWANSEA CITY<br />
FORMED<br />
1912<br />
CLUB FACTS<br />
GROUND<br />
SWANSEA.COM<br />
STADIUM<br />
MANAGER<br />
RUSSELL MARTIN<br />
NICKNAMES<br />
THE SWANS,<br />
THE JACKS<br />
BEATEN PLAY-OFF FINALISTS<br />
SWANSEA CITY HEAD TO<br />
ASHTON GATE STILL LICKING<br />
THEIR WOUNDS AFTER<br />
THAT WEMBLEY DEFEAT TO<br />
BRENTFORD BACK IN MAY.<br />
THEY’RE WITHOUT A WIN FROM<br />
THEIR FIRST THREE LEAGUE<br />
GAMES BUT THEY’LL HAVE<br />
THEIR ATTENTIONS ON PUTTING<br />
THAT EARLY FORM TO BED<br />
WITH SOME FAMILIAR FACES<br />
SET FOR A BS3 RETURN…<br />
HONOURS<br />
1 2 11<br />
Highest league finish<br />
6th in Division One, 1981/82<br />
League Cup winners 2012/13<br />
Football League Trophy winners<br />
1993/94, 2005/06<br />
Welsh Cup winners 11 times<br />
FAW Premier Cup winners<br />
2004/05, 2005/06<br />
Third tier champions<br />
1924/25, 1948/49, 2007/08<br />
Four tier champions<br />
1999/2000<br />
Clockwise from top: New manager Russell Martin; former <strong>City</strong> star Korey<br />
Smith; striker Jamal Lowe; midfielder Yan Dhanda; skipper Matt Grimes.<br />
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V<br />
The Robins boast quite a decent<br />
home record over the Swans,<br />
that last defeat in BS3 coming<br />
in 2011. Prior to that, <strong>City</strong> hadn’t<br />
lost at Ashton Gate since a<br />
League Cup meeting in August<br />
1993. Our home record versus the<br />
Swans since then reads: P 12 |<br />
W 7 | D4 | L1. Last season's home<br />
game ended in a 1-1 draw.<br />
HEAD TO HEAD<br />
71<br />
MATCHES PLAYED<br />
Best victory: 5-0, March 1990<br />
Worst defeat: 1-7, September 2005<br />
Last match: 3-1, February 2021<br />
2021/22 IN NUMBERS<br />
W<br />
29<br />
CITY v SWANSEA<br />
41 %<br />
WIN RATE<br />
D<br />
21<br />
L<br />
21<br />
7<br />
GOALS<br />
SCORED<br />
7<br />
GOALS<br />
CONCEDED<br />
LEAGUE<br />
POSITION<br />
JAN<br />
2022<br />
11 TH<br />
R1<br />
5GOALS<br />
SCORED<br />
6GOALS<br />
CONCEDED<br />
POSITION<br />
JAN<br />
2022<br />
20 TH<br />
R2<br />
v<br />
PLYMOUTH<br />
YELLOW<br />
6 0<br />
CARDS<br />
RED<br />
CARDS<br />
YELLOW<br />
9 0<br />
CARDS<br />
RED<br />
CARDS<br />
2TOP SCORER<br />
JANNEH, MARTIN,<br />
WEIMANN<br />
POSSESSION<br />
48.1 %<br />
PASSING PERCENTAGE<br />
2<br />
MOST ASSISTS<br />
CHRIS<br />
MARTIN<br />
7.75<br />
BEST AVERAGE<br />
RATING (OPTA)<br />
CHRIS MARTIN<br />
2TOP SCORER<br />
JOËL PIROE<br />
6.99<br />
BEST AVERAGE<br />
RATING (OPTA)<br />
RYAN MANNING<br />
POSSESSION<br />
62.8 %<br />
2<br />
MOST ASSISTS<br />
YAN<br />
DHANDA<br />
PASSING PERCENTAGE<br />
67.8 %<br />
87.1 %<br />
TACKLE SUCCESS<br />
TACKLE SUCCESS<br />
LEAGUE ONE CHAMPIONSHIP<br />
69 %<br />
AVERAGE AERIAL<br />
DUELS WON<br />
32.3<br />
56 %<br />
AVERAGE AERIAL<br />
DUELS WON<br />
10.3<br />
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SWANSEA CITY<br />
KEY PLAYER<br />
JAMIE<br />
PATERSON<br />
<strong>City</strong> supporters will know all<br />
about the tricky and energetic<br />
forward. He spent five seasons<br />
with the Robins, having signed<br />
from Nottingham Forest in<br />
2016, coincidentally going on<br />
to score his first of 26 goals<br />
against his former employers<br />
in BS3. Injuries hampered his<br />
run of games at times but<br />
moments which stand out<br />
from his time in red-and-white<br />
include a special strike in a 2-1<br />
win at Bramall Lane, a perfect<br />
free kick at Millwall and a<br />
stunning tight-angle finish at<br />
Middlesbrough.<br />
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DID YOU<br />
KNOW?<br />
Leon Britton made 527 appearances for <strong>Swansea</strong> over<br />
three spells (2002/03 loan, 2003-2010, 2011-2018).<br />
Alongside former Swans teammates Alan Tate and Garry Monk,<br />
Britton is one of a handful of players to have represented a club<br />
in all four divisions of the English football pyramid.<br />
IT’S NOT BEEN THE<br />
START TO A NEW<br />
SEASON MANAGER<br />
RUSSELL MARTIN<br />
WOULD HAVE HAD<br />
IN MIND.<br />
The new boss, having arrived from MK Dons<br />
prior to the new campaign, suffered an opening<br />
day loss to Blackburn Rovers and since then has<br />
overseen one draw and one defeat at home.<br />
There were better fortunes in Round One of the<br />
Carabao Cup, as goals from Joel Latibeaudiere,<br />
Ben Cabango and Joel Piroe secured a 3-0 win to<br />
set up a Round Two fixture against Plymouth<br />
Argyle.<br />
It’s going to take time for the new<br />
manager to bed in, alongside his staff<br />
who also made the move from MK<br />
Dons to South Wales. Former <strong>Bristol</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> Under-23s Manager Luke Williams<br />
was part of the team to follow Martin,<br />
whose possession and passing style<br />
were commended as a good fit for the<br />
Swans.<br />
Martin was appointed just six days before the<br />
start of the new season following the departure<br />
in July of Steve Cooper, who had led the Swans<br />
to two successive top six finishes during his time<br />
in charge.<br />
He’ll need to dig out results if they are to<br />
mount another play-off or promotion bid, and<br />
go one step further following May’s Wembley<br />
disappointment after the 2-0 defeat to Brentford.<br />
As Martin looks to make his mark, he has three<br />
former Robins players in his ranks. Jamie<br />
Paterson and Liam Walsh signed for the club in<br />
the summer, joining Korey Smith who made 40<br />
appearances in his debut season for the Swans<br />
after moving across the Severn in 2020.<br />
It remains to be seen if midfielder<br />
Walsh will return from injury<br />
for Friday night’s encounter in<br />
BS3, but Paterson has featured<br />
in all three league games so<br />
far which included a goal on his<br />
debut.<br />
A stalwart for <strong>City</strong>, Smith<br />
remains a doubt for the<br />
match at Ashton Gate<br />
after suffering a calf<br />
injury in the season<br />
opener against<br />
Blackburn Rovers.<br />
3Robins return? Liam Walsh<br />
is one of three ex-Cty stars in<br />
the <strong>Swansea</strong> squad. Former<br />
Robins Under-23 Manager<br />
Luke Williams (inset) is also<br />
part of the backroom team.<br />
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THANK YOU TO OUR<br />
PARTNERS<br />
PRINCIPAL<br />
ELITE<br />
SUPPORTING
FOREVER<br />
RED<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong> wishes to remember those supporters<br />
we have sadly lost since the Covid-19 pandemic began<br />
and our thoughts remain with all those affected.<br />
Sadly, many friends and family members passed away<br />
since March 2020, due to Covid-19 or other reasons,<br />
so tonight we pay our respects to those no longer with us.<br />
Please join us as we pay tribute to our supporters,<br />
whose spirits will live on here at Ashton Gate.<br />
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Dennis Alway<br />
Paul Anders<br />
Trevor Anderson<br />
Name Surname<br />
Name Surname<br />
John Banks<br />
Bridget Booker<br />
Gordan Britton<br />
Name Surname<br />
Betty Brock<br />
Keith Brooks<br />
Margaret Brown<br />
Terry Cooper<br />
Phil Brown Lewis Clarke Mike Conway<br />
Tony Dando<br />
Pete Davis<br />
Margaret Dodds<br />
Betty Douglas<br />
Colin Dowding<br />
Nik Drew<br />
Daryl Dugdale<br />
Len Eade<br />
Terry Edwards<br />
Richard Fernott John 'Fitzie' Fitzgerald Richard Ford<br />
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Mervyn French<br />
Ian Godfrey<br />
Lewis Gould<br />
Peter Harris<br />
Dave Haskins<br />
Jerry Henry<br />
Bob Hunt<br />
Peter Levy<br />
Kevin Lias<br />
Roger Lucy<br />
Neil Luke<br />
Clive Manley<br />
Buster Footman<br />
Steve Marsh<br />
Stephen Mildon<br />
Joe Nicholson<br />
Nigel Owen<br />
Maurice Palmer<br />
Ronald Parsons<br />
Geoffrey Pearce<br />
Sally Pearcy<br />
Renee Perrett<br />
Simon Pirie<br />
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Hazel Pope<br />
David Popel<br />
Les Radford<br />
Gary Ralph<br />
Jean Reeves<br />
John Rowe<br />
Roy Simmons<br />
Beryl June Smith<br />
Bill Smith<br />
Norman Hunter Lester Solway Roger Stones Robert Summerell<br />
Paul 'Scooter' Surridge<br />
Clive Sutton<br />
Chris Taylor<br />
Don Taylor<br />
Ken Thompson<br />
Janet Tuckfield Kevin Voisey Richard White<br />
Alan Yoxall<br />
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PLAYER<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
ANDY KING USED TO WATCH<br />
CITY FROM THE ASHTON GATE<br />
STANDS, NOW HE’S PLAYING IN<br />
FRONT OF THEM AS HE DONS THE<br />
ROBINS KIT AS A PROFESSIONAL<br />
FOOTBALLER. THE PREMIER<br />
LEAGUE TITLE WINNER NOW<br />
LOOKS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE<br />
AND ACHIEVE MORE BIG THINGS<br />
WITH HIS BOYHOOD CLUB…<br />
A DREAM COME<br />
TRUE<br />
The King<br />
family have<br />
long had an<br />
association<br />
with the<br />
club and <strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong> offered<br />
Andy his first glimpse into the<br />
world of football.<br />
He would follow the Robins<br />
home and away and, as fortune<br />
would have it, the midfielder<br />
would go on to sign for the club<br />
in the summer of 2021.<br />
He would be reunited with Nigel<br />
Pearson, who he knew from their<br />
time together at Leicester <strong>City</strong>,<br />
and the move flourished from<br />
there.<br />
“When I heard Nigel got the job<br />
as manager I thought this could<br />
be something for me,” King told<br />
THE ROB NS. “I’ve worked with<br />
the gaffer before, we know all<br />
about each other and I saw the<br />
potential for a chance to come<br />
in during a transitional period.<br />
“It felt like the perfect fit having<br />
worked with the manager<br />
previously and this is a club I<br />
had wanted to play for, so I gave<br />
him a call and we shared our<br />
thoughts.<br />
“I hadn’t played much last<br />
season, so I came in just to train<br />
at first. Nigel wanted to see<br />
where I was at and if I still had<br />
the hunger. I was and still am<br />
hungrier more than ever after the<br />
last couple of years which 4<br />
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Words James Crawley<br />
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I LOVE PLAYING<br />
IN FRONT OF THE<br />
SUPPORTERS –<br />
I WAS ONE OF<br />
THEM IN THE<br />
STANDS ONCE.<br />
4 haven’t been easy, but<br />
since I’ve been here I’ve<br />
loved it. I’m back playing,<br />
contributing to the team,<br />
I’m happy and feeling the<br />
best I have felt for a long<br />
time.”<br />
King’s debut came at<br />
home in the 1-1 draw with<br />
Blackpool on the opening<br />
day of the season, before<br />
he headed in his first<br />
goal for the club away<br />
at Middlesbrough – a<br />
poignant moment for a<br />
man with <strong>City</strong> at his heart.<br />
“I’ve followed the club<br />
for many years. I used<br />
to watch games with my<br />
dad, my uncle and my<br />
brother so I’ve always kept<br />
an eye on the club and<br />
therefore the goal was an<br />
unbelievable feeling.<br />
“Now I’d love to score at<br />
home in front of the fans<br />
and celebrate in front of<br />
the Dolman Stand where I<br />
used to sit myself. That will<br />
be nice.<br />
“If I can just keep<br />
contributing however I can,<br />
through goals and assists,<br />
that’s great but it’s about us<br />
as a team getting as many<br />
wins as possible.”<br />
<strong>City</strong> now head into Friday<br />
night’s game off the back<br />
of their first win of the<br />
season at Reading. For<br />
King, this could be his first<br />
taste of football under<br />
the Ashton Gate lights<br />
and it’s a moment he is<br />
looking forward to both<br />
professionally and as a fan.<br />
“I always want to win as<br />
a professional footballer<br />
but there’s the emotional<br />
attachment too because<br />
I go through it all as a<br />
supporter. It’s hard but it<br />
makes the good times even<br />
better!<br />
“Watching <strong>City</strong> games as<br />
a kid I would think: ‘Could<br />
I score for this team one<br />
day?’ Now I just want to<br />
score at home but having<br />
played at Ashton Gate<br />
CAREER HIGHS<br />
OCTOBER 2007<br />
Makes his professional<br />
debut for Leicester,<br />
versus Wolves<br />
MAY 2016<br />
Becomes a Premier<br />
League winner with<br />
Leicester <strong>City</strong><br />
JULY 2021<br />
Signs for <strong>City</strong>, his boyhood club<br />
AUGUST 2021<br />
Scores his first <strong>City</strong> goal, versus<br />
Middlesbrough<br />
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already was an amazing<br />
feeling. I love playing in front<br />
of supporters and I was<br />
one of them in the stands<br />
once. I’m not taking this<br />
opportunity for granted and<br />
I’m loving my football again.<br />
“It’s a massive occasion<br />
playing at home under the<br />
lights. I always think that<br />
playing first at the weekend<br />
is an advantage because<br />
you’re putting pressure on<br />
the other teams before<br />
they’ve kicked a ball. We<br />
hope to get our own result<br />
sorted first and then look to<br />
other results.<br />
“There’s always something<br />
special about a night game<br />
but we know we’re up against<br />
a good team who have been<br />
in the play-offs in recent<br />
seasons. They have a new<br />
manager who plays a good<br />
brand of football but at home<br />
we must believe we can beat<br />
anyone and, whether I’m<br />
okay to make the team or<br />
not, I’m sure it’s going to be a<br />
brilliant atmosphere.”<br />
Above<br />
Sitting in his<br />
old seat in the<br />
Dolman Stand<br />
at Ashton Gate<br />
Left<br />
Celebrating<br />
his first <strong>City</strong><br />
goal, away at<br />
Middlesbrough<br />
last Saturday<br />
Preceding page<br />
PIctured at<br />
Ashton Gate<br />
during his<br />
unveiling as a<br />
<strong>City</strong> player<br />
Preceding<br />
page, inset<br />
The young <strong>City</strong><br />
fan proudly<br />
wearing his<br />
2001/02 shirt<br />
2007-2021<br />
Youth<br />
APPEARANCES<br />
3MINUTES<br />
PLAYED<br />
232<br />
2020<br />
Loan<br />
PLAYER PROFILE<br />
2021/22 STATS<br />
SQUAD NUMBER<br />
10<br />
DOB: October 29th 1988<br />
Birthplace: Barnstaple<br />
Position: Midfielder<br />
Joined: July 2021<br />
GOALS<br />
1<br />
PASS<br />
COMPLETION<br />
ASSISTS<br />
1<br />
77.6 %<br />
CAREER PATH<br />
2018<br />
2019<br />
2019<br />
Loan<br />
Loan<br />
Loan<br />
2020<br />
Signed<br />
2021-present<br />
Signed<br />
50<br />
WALES CAPS<br />
2<br />
GOALS<br />
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894 HALL 1894 OF 1894 FAME 1894<br />
MIKE ADAMS PROFILES WELSH MIDFIELDER JOHN EMANUEL<br />
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all my games on the 1894<br />
right of Portsmouth and Nottingham 1894<br />
midfield. As an amateur up to Forest in March – Woods’ only<br />
then, I had to learn all the things first team appearances.<br />
to make me a professional: John continues: “I often<br />
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when to run and when not to, talk about my goal against<br />
when to play the ball forward Manchester United [at Ashton<br />
and when to keep it tight. Gate on November 9th 1974].<br />
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Manager Alan Dicks<br />
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and his The ball came in from<br />
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the right,<br />
assistant John Sillett helped Keith Fear headed it back to me<br />
no end.”<br />
and I smashed it into the net for<br />
the only goal of the game —with<br />
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John went straight into 1894<br />
the my left foot!” 1894<br />
team for the 1971/72 season<br />
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Born in<br />
and, in only his second game at With Gerry Gow and Jimmy<br />
Treherbert,<br />
Sheffield Wednesday, scored in Mann playing more games in<br />
Wales 1894<br />
in 1948,<br />
a 5-1 win. His dream 1894<br />
start was John’s position, a 1894<br />
bad injury<br />
John had a trial<br />
followed by 33 appearances reduced him to a few games<br />
with <strong>Swansea</strong> <strong>City</strong> aged 16<br />
and one more goal. He played in his last season – <strong>City</strong>'s<br />
but began his football career<br />
another 33 matches in 1972/73, promotion year of 1975/76.<br />
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with Ferndale Athletic 1894<br />
in the 1894 1894<br />
scoring five goals and was He joined Newport County in<br />
Welsh League aged 18, where<br />
voted Player of the Year. By 1976, Barry Town two years<br />
he came up against the reserve<br />
then former Ferndale teammate later before ending up at his<br />
teams of Cardiff <strong>City</strong> and<br />
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Eddie Woods had joined 1894<br />
<strong>City</strong>. then hometown club 1894<br />
Ton Pentre,<br />
<strong>Swansea</strong> <strong>City</strong>.<br />
They played together against whom he managed for 20 years.<br />
He was spotted by a <strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
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scout in 1971. He recalls: 1894<br />
“I 1894 1894<br />
was invited to play for <strong>Bristol</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> reserves in the Football<br />
Combination and ended playing<br />
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in the Gloucestershire 1894<br />
Cup 1894 1894<br />
final against <strong>Bristol</strong> Rovers.<br />
After that game I was offered a<br />
professional contract. I played<br />
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Right: Emanuel scores against<br />
Manchester United in March 1974<br />
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Top: Cooper, pictured top right, with his first <strong>City</strong> squad at<br />
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It<br />
the start of the 1982/83 season. Above: Mick Jagger and<br />
was July 1982. The Rolling Stones had excited<br />
Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones at Ashton Gate on June<br />
a packed 35,123 crowd at Ashton Gate a few<br />
27th 1982.<br />
weeks earlier. Terry Cooper, who had made 11<br />
league appearances for <strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong> 1978/80, was<br />
returning as player/manager. Could he bring more league appearances for <strong>City</strong> scoring 77 goals from<br />
excitement and winning football back on the pitch? 1969 to January 1981, before leaving for Sunderland.<br />
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Goalkeeper John Shaw and Jon Economou were also<br />
After three successive relegations, in Division Four re-signed to a squad totalling just 15 players.<br />
for the first time, with most senior players sold and<br />
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still in dire financial straits, it was<br />
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a big ask. But Terry On the opening 1894<br />
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Riley<br />
was about to embark on a quest which would bring scored in the 2-1 home win over Hull <strong>City</strong>. A 2-2 draw at<br />
promotion after two seasons and take the club to a Tranmere Rovers followed with Ritchie scoring a brace.<br />
Wembley final for the first time. How did he do it? Ripples of doubt began to creep in with a 4-1 defeat at<br />
1894 1894Crewe Alexandra, 1894<br />
after which Cooper admitted: 189<br />
“We<br />
After a summer’s hard graft, Terry brought in Clive forgot the basics.”<br />
Middlemass as his assistant and three influential<br />
players: 30-year-old winger Alan Crawford from<br />
Returning to Ashton Gate, Ritchie then missed a penalty<br />
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Chesterfield, forward Glyn Riley (aged 1894<br />
23 from<br />
in a scoreless 1894<br />
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<strong>City</strong>’s<br />
Barnsley) and returning <strong>City</strong> legend Tom Ritchie (30, humiliating 7-1 mauling at Northampton Town, which<br />
Sunderland), together with a sprinkling of players drew everyone’s attention to the task in hand. It was not<br />
from local non-league clubs. Ritchie had made 321 going to be easy…<br />
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<strong>City</strong> In Cartoons with club historian David Woods<br />
Wales the following season Unfortunately, <strong>City</strong> were unable<br />
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was more appealing to 1894<br />
some of to take advantage of 1894<br />
this helping<br />
1 2 the players than a visit to Notts hand, which followed on from<br />
Walker 2 Len Allchurch 25, County. Indeed, so great was this their highly suspicious Easter<br />
Terry 53 opinion among the <strong>City</strong> faithful double over Ipswich, and rumours<br />
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26th April 1958 1894<br />
that the esteemed local 1894<br />
journalist circulating of inducements 1894<br />
being<br />
Football League Division Two David Foot, in the Pink ‘Un, felt refused by both Huddersfield Town<br />
it necessary to deny such a and Leyton Orient.<br />
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This Bob Bennett scenario.<br />
cartoon, from the<br />
<strong>City</strong>: Anderson; Briggs, Thresher;<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> Evening It would, however, seem that the McCall, Alan Williams, Burden;<br />
Post of April 28th spectators were correct as many Hinshelwood, Walker, Atyeo,<br />
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1958, was for <strong>City</strong>’s controversial<br />
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years later <strong>City</strong>’s George<br />
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Walker Etheridge, Watkins1894<br />
meeting with <strong>Swansea</strong> Town, who remarked that he was told to take <strong>Swansea</strong> Town: King; Thomas,<br />
won to escape from the jaws of it easy after firing in the early Griffiths; Woods, Daniel, Brown;<br />
relegation.<br />
opener and it can be considered Len Allchurch, Mel Charles, Terry,<br />
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strange that two seasons 1894<br />
later Ivor Allchurch, Beech 1894<br />
Many were of the opinion that <strong>Swansea</strong> fielded a team of<br />
Referee: Ken Aston (Ilford)<br />
<strong>City</strong> took it easy to gift the Swans youngsters against the struggling Attendance: 18,029 (receipts<br />
the points, as a trip to South Robins at the Vetch.<br />
£1,872.12s.6d)<br />
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STEVE SMITH LOOKS BACK<br />
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CITY GREAT BILLY WEDLOCK<br />
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Our first superstar However, it was touch and go for<br />
here at Ashton Billy as he was not the original<br />
Gate was<br />
choice – Newcastle’s Colin<br />
undoubtedly Veitch was already pencilled<br />
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Billy Wedlock, the diminutive in. “But Veitch was injured in a<br />
five foot, six-and-a-half inch league game on Saturday. Late<br />
dynamo of the pre-First World on Saturday night, a telegram<br />
Above: Pages from Charles Buchan’s<br />
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War era who remains our 1894<br />
was sent to tell me I was 1894<br />
needed Football Monthly dated April 189<br />
1963.<br />
most capped England player to at Bramall Lane on Monday. But<br />
date.<br />
because I had been away from<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> playing for my own club, at work while I was on the train,”<br />
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Aged 82, here he recalls to John 1894<br />
that information did not get 1894<br />
he said. “I thought I would 189<br />
not<br />
Macadam from Charles Buchan’s to me until the early hours of be able to do myself justice in<br />
Football Monthly in April 1963 Sunday,” Wedlock was quoted. that game after all the rush and<br />
what game gave him the most<br />
worry of getting across country,<br />
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pleasure: “It was between the<br />
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With no trains running from<br />
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those<br />
Amateurs and Professionals to Yorkshire that day, time was of who chose our teams, for it was<br />
at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, the essence, and it was doubtful if this match that was my stepping<br />
and played on a Monday. We Wedlock would make the game at stone to the English eleven.”<br />
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Professionals won by 4-2, and it all. The only option was the next<br />
was through this match that I got train on Monday morning and he All this happened in December<br />
my chance to play for England.” just about made it for kick-off! 1906 and two months later<br />
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field at<br />
Wedlock went on to set a record “I changed into my football Goodison Park to make his first<br />
of 25 consecutive caps between clothes on the train, and stepped England appearance in a 1-0 win<br />
February 16th 1907 versus out at Sheffield all ready to take over Ireland. In his seven-year<br />
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Ireland, and March 23rd 1912 1894<br />
the field. It’s a fair stretch 1894<br />
from England career Wedlock 189<br />
got on<br />
against Scotland. He won his the station to Bramall Lane, and the score sheet twice, the first<br />
26th and final cap on March 16th there were only a few minutes to coming in a 7-1 thumping of<br />
1914 against Wales.<br />
the kick-off. But wires had been Wales on March 16th 1908.<br />
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31 Oli COOPER<br />
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41 Jordan GARRICK<br />
56 Lincoln McFAYDEN<br />
LEAGUE<br />
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West Brom 3 5 7<br />
Fulham 3 5 7<br />
QPR 3 4 7<br />
Bournemouth 3 3 7<br />
Stoke 3 3 7<br />
Blackburn 3 2 7<br />
Luton 3 3 6<br />
Coventry 3 1 6<br />
Cardiff 3 2 5<br />
Middlesbro 3 0 4<br />
CITY 3 0 4<br />
Derby 3 0 4<br />
Barnsley 3 0 4<br />
Birmingham 3 -1 4<br />
Peterboro 3 -2 4<br />
Huddersfield 3 -3 4<br />
Reading 3 -1 3<br />
Hull 3 -1 3<br />
Millwall 3 -1 2<br />
<strong>Swansea</strong> 3 -3 1<br />
Blackpool 3 -3 1<br />
Sheff Utd 3 -5 1<br />
N Forest 3 -3 0<br />
Preston 3 -5 0<br />
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