The Bristol City Chronicle
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bristol City
Max Bird 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Bristol City
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market17 Aug 2026
Joseph Reid steps up from the Bristol City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joseph Reid has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Christopher Miller joins the Bristol City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Miller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match15 Aug 2026
Bristol City come up short against Watford
Watford left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luke McNally 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Bristol City turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Mark Sykes runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Neto Borges dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Squad A wage question at Bristol City
- Market The Lisav Eissat talk will not go away