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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Bristol City
1894. The club were originally named Bristol South End FC, until 1897 when they changed the name to Bristol City.
1904. From their formation in 1894, the club played at St. John's Lane, before merging with Bedminster FC in 1900, who played at Ashton Gate. The merged club then proceeded to play at both grounds until making Ashton Gate their full-time home.
No. The club narrowly missed out, by losing 1-0 to Manchester United in the final.
Sam Hollis. Hollis actually had three spells as manager. The first being from 1897-99, the second from 1901-05, and finally from 1911-13.
20. Cole was signed from Arsenal in July 1992. He played 41 league games for his 20 goals, and Newcastle United saw his obvious talent and snapped him up in March 1993. Between 1993-95, Cole scored an incredible 55 goals in 70 league games for Newcastle, before being sold on to Manchester United, where he spent nearly 7 years, and hit 93 goals in 185 games, before being off-loaded to Blackburn Rovers at the end of 2001.
Notts County. Beadle was signed in October 1999, and began his career with Gillingham in 1990, before moving on to Tottenham, Bournemouth, Southend, Watford, Bristol Rovers, Port Vale, Notts County, and then Bristol City.
Coventry City. Coventry beat Bristol City 9-0 in a league game on 28th April, 1934, which set a record for their biggest league defeat.
| Bristol City were relegated from England's top flight division in season 1979-80, but for how many seasons had they been playing in it before this? | Bristol City FC History
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4. City were promoted from the then second division in 1975-76, and in the following seasons, finished 19th, 17th, 13th and 20th. Following this, the club went on a bad streak of relegation trouble, after dropping to the fourth division in consecutive seasons.
| What relation is defender Liam Rosenior, who was signed as a trainee in 2002, to former manager Leroy Rosenior? | Bristol City FC History
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Son. Leroy managed the club for just five months, between January and June 2000.
| In his best scoring season, how many goals did Don Clark score? | Bristol City FC
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46. This was in his first season with the club in the first season after the war.
| In what year was the old open terrace developed into the Atyeo Stand? | Bristol City FC
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1994. The Atyeo Stand now holds home supporters and the club band are held in the top corner of the stand. Away supporters are now housed in the Wedlock Stand.
| Bristol City lost 1-0 to Manchester United in the 1909 FA Cup final. Who scored the only goal of the game? | Bristol City FC
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Sandy Turnbull. The 1909 FA Cup final was the first that Man. Utd won, resulting in the chairman getting so delighted that he bought Old Trafford.
| Who scored the goals in Bristol City's 3-0 win over Bolton in the 1986 Freight Rover Trophy Final? | Bristol City FC
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Riley (2) and Pritchard. Bristol City reached the final the following year as well, losing to Mansfield Town 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.
| Bristol City's first ground, St. John's Lane, missed out on a lot of revenue as the fans used to climb a hill and get a free view. What was the hill called? | Bristol City FC
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Mutton Hill. The club responded to this by putting up 30 ft high sheets to block the view. These were also used as advertising hoardings.
| To what name did Southville FC change back in the late 1800's? | Bristol City FC
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Bedminster. Bedminster then mergered with Bristol City (who used to be Bristol South End) to form the Bristol City we know today.
| Ashton Gate once held a baseball game in 1918. Who played and what was the score? | Bristol City FC
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USA 6 Canada 5. This was played on 13th July 1918 in front of 2,000 people. Ashton Gate has never since held a baseball game.
| Who scored the only goal of the game in Bristol City's 1994 FA Cup fourth round win over Liverpool? | Bristol City FC
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Brian Tinnion. The game was first held at Ashton Gate, but the floddlights failed. The game was held again at Ashton Gate, finishing 1-1. Then City won 1-0 at Anfield.
598. John Atyeo also scored 315 goals for City.
| Who played and what was the score in Bristol South End's first ever FA Cup match? | Bristol City FC
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v Slough 5-1. Goals for Bristol SE came from Clements (3), Grindley and Mayger. In their next FA Cup match, they lost 1-0 to Great Marlow.
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