The Bristol City Chronicle
Squad23 Aug 2027
Aynsley Pears: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bristol City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Aug 2027
Cristian Iguarán hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bristol City can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Sam Greenwood
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ismaily in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bristol City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Wilson Odobert at Bristol City
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Wilson Odobert is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Bristol City
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Aynsley Pears falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match21 Aug 2027
3 matches without a goal for Bristol City
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market23 Aug 2027
Middlesbrough watching Lisav Eissat
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bristol City have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Market Bristol City promote Henry Smith from within
- Market Bristol City promote Anthony Moore from within
- Match Reading take the points off Bristol City