Advantage Bristol

Bristol City 2 v 1 Crystal Palace City triumphed against a poor Palace side in the first leg of the play-off semi final. Bristol travelled to Selhurst Park and took the lead after a lovely worked free-kick leading to a gorgeous strike form Carey. ...

City 3 v 0 Preston

Bristol head into the play-offs after a 3 v 0 victory saw off Preston. Goals from Trundle, McIndoe and Noble moved City's goal difference into the positive and secured fourth spot. Gary Johnson said after the match that it was important to head into ...

Fabian Wilnis, A Tribute

"Fabian Wilnis is a Blue, is a Blue, is a Blue" With the news coming out of Portman Road today that Fabian Wilnis will not be offered a new contract next season, I thought it fitting to pay tribute to one of the club's finest ever servants. Arr ...

Ipswich Town 1 -0 Hull City

Good, But Not Good Enought Town kept their part of the bargain for a play-off place after earning a deserved three points over promotion hopefuls Hull City this afternoon thanks to an Alan Lee header, but as expected; results went against us, mea ...

Final Day Predictions

A Playoff place for Town? I Doubt It 46 hard fought games all boil down to today, with ours proving to be one of the most important going into the final day. However, I expect the pre-kick off excitement to be fully out of steam by full time with T ...

Even if Ipswich Don't Make the Playoffs, There's Much to Look Forward to Next Season

Town Are Winners No Matter the Outcome There aren't many Town fans who would have believed that Jim Magilton's team would be fighting for a Playoff place on the last day of the season given the dismal 2006-07 campaign. Although destiny is out of I ...

Bristol City v Preston North End

With Bristol secure in the play-off spots, the Robins meet Preston at home with the aim of getting some kind of form back. Bristol can't take third but we don't want to slip back into further down so to avoid a tougher draw in the semi-final. Preston ...

The weekend's matches

Watford v Stoke Second play third in the big match of this weekend as Stoke travel to Watford. Both have been in a mixed run of form with the Potters managing a defeat, draw and a victory in their last three matches while the Hornets haven't lost in fi

Bristol City vs Watford Match Preview: Clash of the Titans!

Tuesday 11th March, Ashton Gate, 7.45pm Watford Position in league: 3rd Last match: Watford 1 v 1 Norwich Last five matches: WDDDD Goal difference in last five matches: +2 Last five away matches: LDWDD Key man: Dan Shittu - Watford can score go

End of season prediction

With most teams having less than 10 games to play this season, it's time for me to make my predictions on who will achieve automatic promotion from the Championship and who will have to settle for the play-offs. So, just like presidential primary resu

Bristol City vs Leicester City: Match Preview

Saturday 8th March, 3pm, Walkers Stadium League - Bristol haven't been out of the top six since the victory at Scunthorpe in the third game of the season. On the same day as that win, Leicester achieved their highest placing this season - hitting the l

Key point at Charlton

Bristol City 1 v 1 Charlton Athletic After a poor first half, which Gary Johnson put down to the players acting like they had been "reading their own publicity", City went in to the break a goal down having seen Charlton create and waste numerous chanc

McCombe volley takes City top

Bristol City 2 v 1 Hull City Bristol City went top of the Championship after a spectacular Jamie McCombe goal gave the Robins a 2v1 victory. Adebola opened the scoring on 14 minutes only for a Fontaine own goal to even the scores. Bristol, in truth

Three valuable points on the road for City

Bristol City 2 v 1 Colchester United A nine minute blizzard of goals saw Bristol come from one-nil down to lead two-one away at Colchester. The result sees Bristol climb to second and into the automatic promotion spots after Watford could only draw at

Bristol City vs Colchester United Match Preview

Saturday 23rd February, 15.00, Away at Layer Road Things you didn't know about Colchester United 1. No-one cares about them. Last season they achieved their highest ever league placing - 10th in the Championship. However no-one was there to see them

Thoughts on the Palace match

1. City need to show more confidence at home. We effectively played a 4-5-1 formation which often led to Adebola being left isolated up front. We looked much better after Byfield and Trundle had come on. Our goal difference count is not great and there's

Late McCombe header rescues a point for City

Sometimes half-time can aid a team, sometimes it can hinder them. As it was, a Bristol team full of verve before the break were transformed into a side lacking effort and quality during much of the second half. The change allowed Palace back into a match

Draw leaves Bristol third

Bristol City 1 v 1 Crystal Palace City missed the chance to go top after Lee Hills struck for Palace, Bradley Orr missed a penalty for Bristol and Jamie McCombe headed a late, late equaliser. Full match report tomorrow.

Predictions for tonight?

Over on the fans' forum, people seem to be going for a City victory by the single goal. I'm thinking 1v0 to City with Orr scoring after 34 minutes. How about you - what's your prediction?

Bristol City vs Cystal Palace Match Preview

Five reasons City will beat Palace tomorrow night: 1. No team have done the double over Bristol and only two have taken four points. In contrast, five teams have taken zero or one point from their two matches against us. 2. City will be fired up aft

Match Highlights- Denizlispor-1:2-Galatasaray

Live Blog (sorta): SAFC vs THFC

I've managed to get the game on a super secret innernets that I found here. Currently it's halftime, scoreless. Spurs have the better of run of play thus far but no real great chances. Sunderland have had a couple including Murphy alone in the box but

Matchday 16 - Lyon roars still

Le Mans hosted Lyon in the inaugral match of the weekend, and wouldn't you know it, Lyon walked away with a yawn-tastic 1-0 win. Le Mans keeper Johan Pelé was the reason why the game didn't end up like the 5-0 variety. But he could do nothing against Syl

Matchday 15 - Whoa, whoa, status quo

Not a terribly exciting and goal-filled week (I'm noticing a pattern here), Matchday 15 provided us with the anticipation of next week (I'll get to that in a bit). Troyes held Marseille to a draw at home, in what was an exciting back-and-forth game be

Matchday 14 - Lyon avoid embarassment

Not particularly high-scoring or exciting, Matchday 14 provided some interesting results that made the top 10 that much more close. Marseille FINALLY won after five straight defeats, against historical rival Valenciennes. Pagis provided the only goal

Matchday 13 - Can you say "no surprises"?

My goodness, what are Marseille up to? Five losses in a row is bad for a team at the bottom of the table, so what of it if the team in question was second at the start of the skid? Hello crisis. The rest of the league produced their fair share of exciteme

Rennes v. Lyon - Yay!

It had to happen, and it did. Here are the highlights.

Matchday 12 - The lion has fallen! Temporarily!

Now here is a day out of the ordinary. Lyon was handed there first loss, Marseille buried their head a bit more into the sand, and the race at the top got that much hotter. Rennes 1-0 Lyon. It's about time someone knocked those lions off their asses. A