After what I think was a very difficult seven decades quiz for the Charlton match, I hope this one for tomorrow’s game will be a little less testing, I’ll post the answers on here tomorrow.
60s. How many games did City play at Ashton Gate during this decade and how many of them did we lose?
70s. This defender played for seven sides, but only two of them were British. Bristol City were his first club and he played a prominent role during what was the best times in their history. When it all started to go wrong for them, he was sold on to a First Division side a hundred miles or so to the north, but he never established himself at his new side in the way he had done with his home town club and left after a few months to play in another country for the rest of his career – he was manager for a while at his final club, but who is he?
80s. He was a back up for his country in a World Cup Finals tournament and a year later, played in a European Cup Final. However, three years after that, he was a regular in a Bristol City side that was relegated to the old Fourth Division, can you name him?
90s. An animal tender with a new haircut perhaps?(5,6)
00s. An England Under 21 who only made seventy five first team appearances in a twenty one year playing career – one of those games was a debut for City in a match against Bristol City during this decade, who is he?
10s. Apparently, still manager of a club called ……………. Spurs, he also played for City against the wurzels during this decade – who?
20s. Which member of the current Bristol City squad has scored Championship goals against Birmingham this season for two different teams?
Answers
60s. City were unbeaten at Ashton Gate in this decade – they won four and drew two of six league games and won a Welsh Cup tie there in 1962.
70s. Garry Collier broke into the Bristol City team in 1972 and had played nearly two hundred games (the majority of them in the First Division) for them before he left for Coventry City in 1980. He only played twice for the Sky Blues and joined the exodus of players to the USA when he signed for Portland Timbers and then San Diego Sockers (he played outdoor and indoor “sacca” for both on these sides and it was the latter version only for his next two sides Kansas City Comets and Chicago Sting before moving outside again for the San Diego Nomads who he also managed.
80s. Jan Moller won seventeen caps for Sweden and was their back up keeper at the 1978 World Cup. He was also in the Malmo team beaten by Nottingham Forest in the 1979 European Cup Final, but, despite still only being in his twenties, he somehow found himself playing for a skint Bristol City side in freefall as they dropped down the divisions from First to Fourth in successive seasons.
90s. Shaun Goater.
00s. Goalkeeper Stuart Taylor made his first appearance for City in the 1-1 draw at Ashton Gate in March 2009.
10s. Kagisho Dikgacoi is still shown on Wikipedia as being the manager of Witland Spurs FC in South Africa, but I think he may have moved on from the job now.
20s. Jamie Paterson scored for Bristol in their 3-3 home defeat by Birmingham in February, he also scored for Derby in a 3-2 win in September while on loan with that club.
