The news that Bristol City’s debt for the financial year had climbed to an eye popping £14.4 million once again opened the gaping scar that is Football League club finance. Following on from the posting of a similarly agonising figure of £11.45 million a year earlier and accompanied by a desperately poor season on the pitch, the sum has sent shockwaves through the club’s support. With a possible transfer …
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10 Players Looking for a Contract
With just three weeks to go before the start of the season, one of the most surprising aspects of this summer is the enhanced quality of the ‘out of work’ list – a roster of players that can be pondered with increasing incredulity here. In the past, the directory was populated with the kinds of players one might expect – journeymen who had reached the end of their shelf …
TTU Awards 2011-12: Best Club Website/Blog
2011-12 was torrid for the blogs. Two trailblazing club websites, Viva Rovers and Boy from Brazil called it a day and the circumstances behind these closures made a significant impact, provoking a serious amount of existential, ‘why do we do this?’ mutterings. Then, just a fortnight ago, Ben Mayhew decided to discontinue his Greenwich Gull site although he will remain active via his Experimental 361 persona.
Thankfully, some terrific sites …
Bristol City and Bristol Rovers announce merger
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 …
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
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Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
