Michael Wright

Defensive Midfielder - Bristol City
14 Jul 2041
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737 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings10 Sep 2040

Sam Greenwood, 38, rolls back the years — 8.25

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market10 Sep 2040

Michael Wright asks to leave Bristol City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Tempers go at Bristol City

Law McCabe 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.

Match8 Sep 2040

Leandro Bevin the difference as Bristol City beat Middlesbrough

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leandro Bevin. 2‑1 against Middlesbrough, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings10 Sep 2040

Marten Strootman runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Bristol City pick somebody else ahead of Max Bird

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Words at Bristol City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jason Howard 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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Sam Greenwood has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bristol City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market10 Sep 2040

No place for Joe Walters in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Joe Walters has his answer from Bristol City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

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688 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

3 Oct 2039
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Oct 2039

Max Bird damages knee ligaments — 44 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match1 Oct 2039

Still nobody has beaten Bristol City

The unbeaten run reaches 17. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad3 Oct 2039

Finley Grigg keeps Bristol City in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad3 Oct 2039

A fracture rules Stanislav Stanek out for 49 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bristol City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings3 Oct 2039

Age has not caught Jason Knight yet — 7.87

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad3 Oct 2039

Eugene Nyarko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bristol City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings3 Oct 2039

Marten Strootman runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings3 Oct 2039

Sam Bell's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Bristol City needed to.

Match1 Oct 2039

Jason Knight rescues a point for Bristol City

It needed Jason Knight to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Huddersfield Town, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief