The Bristol City Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Emil Riis takes the afternoon — 6.57
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Emil Riis provided it, and the 6.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Jason Knight runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. 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
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
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.
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Bristol City get the job done against Rotherham United
A 3‑1 win over Rotherham United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Matthew Targett
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Radek Vítek
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Jack Murray joins the Bristol City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jack Murray is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Mark Lawrence joins the Bristol City first team
- Market One of our own: Thomas Jackson joins the Bristol City first team
- Market One of our own: Anthony Clark joins the Bristol City first team