Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football.
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21 Facts About Bristol City
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Bristol City spent just two seasons in the Fourth Division and went on to win the Associate Members' Cup in 1986.
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Bristol City joined the Football League in 1901 when they became only the third club south of Birmingham to perform in the competition.
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The leading conditions are that the name and colours of Bristol City shall be retained, that matches shall be played alternately on the ground of each club for one season, and that five directors shall be nominated by each club.
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In 1980, the Bristol City team went back to the Second Division in the first of three relegations, their debt mounted and their financial losses increased, with two successive relegations following.
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Bristol City spent two seasons in the Fourth Division before winning promotion under Terry Cooper in 1984.
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Bristol City was sold to Newcastle United in February 1993 and later played for Manchester United, where he collected five Premier League titles, two FA Cups and the European Cup.
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Meanwhile, Bristol City remained in the new Division One and Smith moved to Oxford United in November 1993.
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Bristol City were relegated in bottom place and Lennartsson was dismissed in favour of Gillingham's Tony Pulis, who lasted six months before leaving to take over at Portsmouth.
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Bristol City was sacked within days and replaced by veteran player Brian Tinnion.
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Bristol City just failed to make the playoffs in Tinnion's first season as manager, finishing seventh, and he stepped down in September 2005 after a poor start to the season.
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Bristol City's form had slumped despite the addition of high-profile players, including Marcus Stewart and Michael Bridges.
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Derek McInnes was appointed next, but after a promising start, Bristol City fell into the relegation zone, eventually surviving in 20th place, their worst since promotion in 2007.
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Bristol City was replaced by Sean O'Driscoll, the club's fifth head coach in three years, but City were relegated to League One after six seasons in the Championship.
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Bristol City finished the season with 99 points, the most points in a single season in the club's history, and only 5 losses.
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However, a sharp downturn in fortunes followed over the winter, and Bristol City were only just able to accumulate enough points to ensure survival at the end of the season.
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Bristol City have played in red and white since the 1890s, occasionally including black.
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Bristol City supporters took this rallying cry on board and began to sing "Johnson says bounce around the ground" to the tune of Yellow Submarine, while continually bouncing up and down.
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When Bristol City fans travelled to London to play Charlton Athletic on 4 March 2008, the visiting fans, using the rail network to return home, adapted the song to "Bounce Around the Train".
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Bristol City have played at Ashton Gate Stadium in the south-west of Bristol, just south of the River Avon, since moving from St John's Lane in 1904.
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Bristol City overtook John Atyeo after 47 years and is the club's all-time top appearance maker.
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