It has taken less than two months and if the more paranoid among Bristolian football fans expressed worry when Steve Lansdown became the majority shareholder of Bristol Rugby Club in February, that step has now been revealed as a mere staging post in the master plan – for today the formation of Bristol United Football Club has been announced. In a statement, Lansdown admitted that the merger between Bristol City and Rovers would come as a shock to some – ‘As I said a month ago, I love sport generally and I want to see sport in Bristol be successful…
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Conversations with Paul Binning (Bristol City)
Following Keith Millen’s exit from the managerial post at Bristol City earlier this week, we are very pleased to welcome Paul Binning for our latest interview. Paul trades under the name @cider1977 on Twitter and runs the consistently enjoyable blog, The Exiled Robin. He also contributes a regular feature on social media and football that appears in the Bristol City matchday programme and I was lucky enough to pave the way for this conversation when I met Paul in person at Bedminster Cricket Club last week. Here are his thoughts on the interregnum at Ashton Gate: LR:Keith Millen was unlikely to survive…
A tale of two Cities
If a week is a long time in politics, then three months is an aeon in football. Cardiff finished the 2010/11 Championship season under a cloud, play-off failure for the second successive year condeming Dave Jones to the sack on the very same day that arch-rivals Swansea made it to the Promised Land of the Premier League – £38m substitutes, 4-0 drubbings and all – and heralding the break-up of arguably the division’s most illustrious first team. The future, frankly, looked bleak. And yet just three months later, 36 sun-soaked minutes into their first home game of the new campaign,…
Social Media: a Brave New World
We are grateful today to the Bristol City matchday programme for allowing us to co-publish an article from Paul Binning aka The Exiled Robin, one of the contributors to our recent season preview. Here, Paul looks at the extraordinary impact of social media on the game and in particular Twitter. When you bear in mind Twitter only came into being five years ago, its growth has been phenomenal. The way it is used, sometimes abused and is revolutionising communication is fascinating and scary in equal measure. The world of @’s and #’s may seem bewildering but it is rapidly turning into the…
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