Never to the dark side Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Covered two columns in the sports pagesIt even mentioned some thing about THREE players being arrestedIt even mentioned the players nameDoes any one know any info about THREE of our players being arrested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy082005 Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Covered two columns in the sports pagesIt even mentioned some thing about THREE players being arrestedIt even mentioned the players nameDoes any one know any info about THREE of our players being arrested?um yeah.....Bradley Orr, Scott Brown and Dave PartridgeThought it was common knowledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 From the Daily Telegraph:Johnson driven to tears by the plight of CityBy Simon Goodley Gary Johnson is an emotional man. On his first day as Bristol Citymanager in September, he drove past the training ground of his formerclub, Yeovil Town, and promptly burst into tears.He's probably felt like weeping on that trip every day since, as theman who converted the Somerset club into one of the country's greatoverachievers - taking them from the Conference to League One - hadjoined one of football's most consistent underachievers just as thingswere getting worse.If anybody thought the humiliation of September's 7-1 drubbing bySwansea, which cost former boss Brian Tinnion his job, was a Citynadir, they were sadly deluded. A club record run of nine consecutivedefeats began in mid-October, dumping the Robins out of two cupcompetitions and to the foot of League One.Only days before that sequence began three players - David Partridge,Scott Brown and Bradley Orr - were arrested for violent conduct in aBristol nightclub, the third such incident at Ashton Gate within thepast couple of years.Meanwhile, there are constant whinges from fans that the players areunfit, undisciplined, overpaid or a combination of the three. And thisfor a club touted as one of the division's promotion favourites at thebeginning of the season. To paraphrase the most over-quoted hotelporter of the past couple of weeks: Bristol City - where did it all gowrong?"I know we've had nine defeats and only the one win but I know what Ithink the problem is," insisted Johnson, after his team ended thelosing sequence on Saturday with a deserved 2-0 victory overHuddersfield Town, which hauled them off the basement."The problem is staying in my head and with the chairman. We're goingto work very hard to turn this around and not have this clubunderachieving. I think I can make this club great again."Reading between the lines, the manager has been dismayed by theattitude of the squad he has inherited, and openly talks of playersneeding to understand "that there has to be a professional culture".Still, it seems many are being coerced into this way of thinking. WhenJohnson said he had thrown a "hand grenade" into the dressing roomafter another recent defeat, everybody on the outside took the metaphorto mean that he'd told players to notify their agents, as they would besold in the January transfer window. "It's not that far wide of themark," Johnson admitted.Saturday, thankfully, showed the boss that there are some players hecould work with. Scott Murray gave Bristol a fifth-minute lead but thegame was sealed by a wonderful goal by Dave Cotterill, the 18-year-oldwho recently made his Wales debut at a younger age than Ryan Giggs. Hislong, winding run and finish was worthy of the Manchester Unitedwinger, too, although mercifully he's too cherubic to perform theGiggs' trademark hirsute, striptease celebration.That was the second big relief in a matter of days, after Johnson wasgiven some unexpected ammunition to extract transfer funds from theboard ahead of January's window. Amazingly, in the football rich listpublished by FourFourTwo magazine last week, only two clubs in Britainhad more directors represented than Bristol City, with chairman SteveLansdown (equal 41st with £50m) joined by City director Keith Dawe(joint 64th with £25m)."Yeah, that was handy, wasn't it?" smiled Johnson. "But I'm sure we'renot going to be able to spend £75m."Some of it, perhaps, as the club desperately need the January sales torevitalise this squad. With just 13 shopping days until Christmas, yoususpect the Bristol City manager is viewing things in reverse: oneChristmas Day until shopping. And who knows? A couple of bargains mightjust lighten that gloomy mood - and let Johnson discard the Kleenex onhis morning drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshire_red Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Times, Mail, Express, Telegraph, what does it matter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stfc_dave Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 From the Daily Telegraph:Johnson driven to tears by the plight of CityBy Simon Goodley Gary Johnson is an emotional man. On his first day as Bristol Citymanager in September, he drove past the training ground of his formerclub, Yeovil Town, and promptly burst into tears.pffft what a lamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never to the dark side Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 I wish I was a whizz kid like TomThe posting of mine which he has cut copied and pasteda reply too, would take me at least a day to do accomplish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 pffft what a lamerSTFU!! :@ He has passion, how is that lame? Iffy Onura....ok where do we start.Lets just say he was a better player than he is a manager, and he was 5HITE! as a player, can't wait to see you scum suckers go down, can't ****in wait!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Legend City Man Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 I hope you just copied and pasted that article Tom!!! I read it in the times, was interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 STFU!! :@ He has passion, how is that lame? Iffy Onura....ok where do we start.Lets just say he was a better player than he is a manager, and he was 5HITE! as a player, can't wait to see you scum suckers go down, can't ****in wait!! he got you there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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