07-08 News
Bristol City vs Watford Match Preview: Clash of the Titans!
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Tuesday 11th March, Ashton Gate, 7.45pm
Watford
Position in league: 3rd
Last match: Watford 1 v 1 Norwich
Last five matches: WDDDD
Goal difference in last five matches: +2
Last five away matches: LDWDD
Key man: Dan Shittu - Watford can score goals from all positions and the defender is a continual threat at set pieces, whilst also being a difficult man [...]
Congratulations Rovers
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Judging by the message boards, I may upset a few fans with this. But I want to congratulate Rovers on getting to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a City fan all the way but as a City fan I feel we should extend a round of applause to our [...]
Category: 07-08 NewsEnd of season prediction
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With most teams having less than 10 games to play this season, it’s time for me to make my predictions on who will achieve automatic promotion from the Championship and who will have to settle for the play-offs.
So, just like presidential primary results coming in, here is my prediction for what the top six [...]
City’s smash and grabs of 07-08
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In keeping with GJ’s honesty, I thought we’d look at some other matches when Bristol have been, to say the least lucky.
Burnley 0 v 1 Bristol City, 29th December.
Tamas Vasko gave City fans a New Year present with the only goal of the match, away at Burnley. Despite a good performance from Bristol, City were [...]
Bristol City vs Leicester City: Match Preview
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Saturday 8th March, 3pm, Walkers Stadium
League - Bristol haven’t been out of the top six since the victory at Scunthorpe in the third game of the season. On the same day as that win, Leicester achieved their highest placing this season - hitting the lofty heights of ninth.
Early goals - Leicester have conceded twenty-four goals [...]
Keeping an eye on City’s promotion rivals
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Watford
No matter how many they score, Watford seem unable at the moment to take more than a point per game. The Hornets drew their third match in a row as Norwich held them 1v1 at Vicarage Park, leaving them in second place, three points behind Bristol.
Watford next play Bristol at Ashton Gate before Stoke at [...]
Key point at Charlton
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Bristol City 1 v 1 Charlton Athletic
After a poor first half, which Gary Johnson put down to the players acting like they had been “reading their own publicity”, City went in to the break a goal down having seen Charlton create and waste numerous chances in a opening 45 minutes that were dominated by the [...]
McCombe volley takes City top
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Bristol City 2 v 1 Hull City
Bristol City went top of the Championship after a spectacular Jamie McCombe goal gave the Robins a 2v1 victory.
Adebola opened the scoring on 14 minutes only for a Fontaine own goal to even the scores. Bristol, in truth, were a little fortunate to take all three points; Hull [...]
Keeping an eye on City’s promotion rivals
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Stoke slipped up away at Preston, losing two-nil. The result leaves Stoke one point above Bristol but having played one game more.
Three valuable points on the road for City
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Bristol City 2 v 1 Colchester United
A nine minute blizzard of goals saw Bristol come from one-nil down to lead two-one away at Colchester. The result sees Bristol climb to second and into the automatic promotion spots after Watford could only draw at home to Preston, and West Brom slipped up; losing two-one at home [...]
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