Another run of games between international breaks whizzing by! Tomorrow’s derby game with Bristol City will be City’s last one for just over a fortnight, so the really awful news is that there’ll be no more seven decades quizzes during that time! Answers to this quiz will be posted on here over the weekend.
60s. This wide man’s long career was played out at nine clubs all within a hundred miles of his Paulton birthplace. He started off with Bristol City and played against us on four occasions spread over two decades with his sole win coming in his final encounter with us for the wurzels. Always a stand in for others really, he just made it to a century of league appearances for the Ashton Gate tea#m before moving on to a club which had changed its name fairly recently and he became a regular to an extent that he had never managed at his first club – his modest record against us didn’t improve though with a draw and a defeat to show for his games against Cardiff. After playing nearly twice as many matches for his second club as he managed at Bristol, his career stretched into a third decade with a move to a club where he didn’t have to change his shirt colour. Three years in which he he was able to take his career Football League appearances total beyond four hundred didn’t improve his luck against Cardiff City though as a draw and three defeats made it just one win in ten overall when facing us. Dropping into non league football after that, he played for Forest Green Rovers and Maesteg Park among others before hanging up his boots, but who is he?
70s. This striker couldn’t buy a goal at his first goal (not quite true actually, he managed one), but things improved for him when he crossed England to come home with one of his goals deserving to be described as historic. That goal prompted talk of an imminent full international honours, but an accidental collision with an icon of the game in his next match had awful consequences – an attempted comeback lasted just one match and he eventually had to announce his retirement due to the knee injury he received when he looked to be on the brink of great things, who am I describing?
80s. There wasn’t much Christmas cheer around in a City v wurzels encounter from this decade which saw a player from each team sent off. One of them was also dismissed in his second appearance for the senior team and never made it to full international status despite winning plenty of under 21 caps and the occasional call up to the senior squad. The other one once scored a hat trick on the ground of one of biggest clubs in the country and when he left the team he was playing for that day, he did so in exchange for a future City captain, can you name the two players involved? For a pointless bonus point, can you name the future City skipper?
90s. In terms of City v Bristol City games, what very significant event occurred at just after a quarter to eight on 18 August 1992?
00s. Would there be a portrait of him in the Louvre if it moved to Spain? (4,7)
10s. It’s hard not to look back at this defender’s career and think that it was all a bit of an anti climax after a start which suggested great things for club and country. Bristol City was his fourth club and he played over a hundred times for them before moving on to a team he had already been loaned to three times. Another player who did not enjoy his encounters with Cardiff while he was with the wurzels – only one of his five meetings with us during this decade was won, while the other four ended in defeat, do you know who he is?
20s. Opposite of the “swimaway”?
Answers
60.s Danny Bartley played out a Football League career lasting almost twenty years as a left winger and then a left back. Starting off at Bristol City he played exactly 100 times in the Football League for them over a nine year period. His first appearance against City came in a 2-1 loss for the wurzels at Ninian Park in March 1976 and it was just over six years later that he tasted victory for the only time against Cardiff when Bristol won 3-2 at the same ground in April 1972. Bartley signed for the former Swansea Town in 1973 and was a regular in their team for the large majority of his seven years with them. In 1980, he moved on to Hereford United before being released to play for six non league teams on either side of the Bristol Channel.
70s. Bristol born Paul Cheesely began his career at Norwich as they struggled to avoid relegation from the old First Division. After just a single goal for twenty four league appearances, Cheesely was sold to Bristol City at the end of 1973. Bristol were promoted to the top flight themselves in 75/76 with Cheesely scoring fifteen times and it was he who scored the only goal of the game at Highbury in the opening fixture of the following season, only for him to be so badly injured in a collision with Peter Shilton in a game against Stoke at Ashton Gate three days later that he had to retire after a comeback game against Birmingham later that season went poorly – Cheesely had not even made it to one hundred career league appearances when he had to pack up at just twenty four.
80s. Linden Jones (who was sent off along with Blackburn’s John Bailey in his second game for us in 1979) and Kevin Mabbutt were sent off just before half time in 0-0 draw at Ashton Gate on Boxing Day 1980 – Mabbutt scored a hat trick in a 3-1 win for Bristol at Old Trafford and left for Crystal Palace in a swap deal which saw Terry Poole move in the opposite direction.
90s. Carl Dale scored the goal which gave City their only win over the wurzels in a competitive game between April 1 971 and May 2003 when he scored two minutes into a League Cup First Round, First Leg match at Ninian Park – best not mention the fact that we got beat 5-1 in the return game!
00s. Ivan Sproule.
10s. Lewin Nyatanga was Wales youngest ever full international before his record was broken by Gareth Bale. He was also the youngest ever Wales Under 21 player and captain, but it rather emphasises how he failed really to carry his teenage promise into the senior game when you consider he won the last of his thirty four full international caps nearly ten years ago when he was just twenty three. Bristol City signed him from Derby in 2009 following a loan spell with Sunderland and three of them with Barnsley – his one win in games against us came in our 3-0 away defeat in December 2010. Nyatanga signed for Barnsley permanently after being freed by Bristol, but seems to have left the game before he turned thirty after Barnsley decided not to offer him a new contract in 2017..
20s. Jack Hunt.
