The Bristol City Chronicle
Squad29 Jan 2029
The knee: Danny Ward out for 135 days
135 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bristol City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market29 Jan 2029
Only the photograph left for Danny Ward
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Danny Ward will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bristol City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 Jan 2029
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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Words at Bristol City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Scott Twine is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match27 Jan 2029
A bad afternoon for Bristol City against Stoke City
1‑3 to Stoke City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets29 Jan 2029
Door shut on Shumaira Mheuka
Bristol City asked and Chelsea said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings29 Jan 2029
The cruellest goal, and it is Tyler Dibling's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Bristol City will not try tonight.
Market29 Jan 2029
One of our own: Samuel Carter joins the Bristol City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Carter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market29 Jan 2029
One of our own: Stephen Carter joins the Bristol City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stephen Carter 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: Christopher Walker joins the Bristol City first team
- Squad Bristol City count the cost of losing Lisav Eissat
- The dugout Luke Cook faces the questions