The Exiled Robin

Take yourself back six years.   For six years ago next weekend, Ashton Gate was packed to the rafters on a sunny day with gloriously happy Bristol City fans, with red shirts aplenty on display in the May sunshine.   Rotherham had turned up for an end-of-season game with fewer than 100 fans so almost every inch of the ground was full of noisy, happy City fans.   Gary Johnson had finally got us promoted and had done so in style.   BS3 was a very happy place to be. Now ask yourselves a question, but before you do just remember the calamity that followed our previous promotion; John Ward’s sacking, Benny Lennartsson’s singularly disastrous reign, expensive signings no-one had ever heard of, Chairman Scott Davidson posting his team selections under the dressing room doors.…. If someone, right at that moment just over half a decade ago, had offered you six unbroken seasons in the Championship, one year escaping relegation, one solid fifteenth place, two tenth-pla...