The Exiled Robin

I n these days of the modern media and highly intensive press interest there are very few transfers that come from nowhere, names that appear out of the blue and lead fans scurrying for Google to find out more about them. At around 11:30pm one Thursday night the back page of the Daily Record managed to get an exclusive that seemed to surprise everyone in Scotland and Bristol.   This is good journalism – scooping a story that no-one else has and then having the satisfaction of seeing that story come to fruition almost immediately.   By tea-time the following day Bristol City tweeted via their official account that the Aberdeen captain was indeed heading to the West Country. Although many suspected that City manager Derek McInnes had been looking north of the border for new signings, this was a name that hadn’t cropped up and one that few – if any – City fans had heard of.   Still now there seems a relative lack of hard ...