The Bristol City Chronicle
Match19 Sep 2026
Bristol City win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Norwich City will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Bristol City
Adam Randell was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Sam Bell
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Bristol City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jael was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Bristol City rebuffed over Kosuke Nakamura
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gamba Osaka have kept their man, and Bristol City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Tomi Horvat sends Bristol City past Norwich City
It finished 2‑1, and it was Tomi Horvat’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bristol City.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Tomi Horvat
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bristol City count the cost of losing Jack Hooper
31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Jael
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Looking ahead Sam Greenwood faces his old club
- The dugout Robertino Giacomini knocks on the manager’s door