Winning the Second Division Championship with a record number of points when they became the first club in Football League history to win 30 league games in a season (out of 38 played) as well as equalling Manchester United's achievement of the previous season in winning 14 consecutive games (a record until 2018, also accomplished by Preston North End in 1950–51). Lee Johnson gives insight into ex-Bristol City defender on loan from Cardiff City at Sheffield Wednesday. [30] The away kit is more variable.
Stars of this era included Peter Cormack, Geoff Merrick, Tom Ritchie, Clive Whitehead, Gerry Gow, Trevor Tainton and Jimmy Mann. Exclusive: Swansea City closing in on Kasey Palmer after breakthrough in Bristol City talks. Riley later told me: “Someone shouted ‘You deal with the game and we’ll deal with the coppers.’ It was frightening.”. An engineer who had bought out the firm he worked for, he designed the first set of floodlights installed at Ashton Gate in the early 1950s.

A new partly-artificial Desso pitch was laid and the current Dolman stand refurbished. But no one who was at Elm Park on that horrific April afternoon will forget what a scar hooliganism was on our national game during the 1970s and 80s.. Bristol City: Shaw; Stevens, Phillipson-Masters, Halliday, Newman; Pritchard, Stroud, Ritchie, Hirst (Cooper 60); Riley, Morgan. Updates across the day on all the big news affecting the team from Ashton Gate. [27] His assistant, Dean Holden, was appointed as his replacement on 10 August 2020.[28]. City overcame Crystal Palace 4–2 on aggregate to progress to the play-off final at Wembley, where they were beaten 1–0 by Hull City. Derek McInnes was appointed next, but after a promising start, City fell into the relegation zone, eventually surviving in 20th place, their worst since promotion in 2007. In 1980, the City team went back to the Second Division in the first of three relegations, their debt mounted and their financial losses increased, with two successive relegations following.

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