The Exiled Robin

The new year dawned with the return to Ashton Gate of a number of City players who had been on loan at various clubs for the past few months. Performances and form in spells of this sort tend to go a little unnoticed so I asked fans of some of the clubs to do a review of the players’ time with their club and give City fans a feel as to how the players performed. Although many came back, I’ve focused on the three that played the most: Two for the future in Joe Edwards and Christian Ribeiro , as well as long-time ‘Marmite’ midfielder Lee Johnson . Firstly, two views on Johnson. Lee has increasingly found himself on the fringes of the City squad and Neil Kilkenny’s signing in the summer appeared to signal the end of his time at the club, especially when he signed on loan for recently promoted Chesterfield. However sometimes a good loan spell can turn around fortunes so how did Lee get on in Derbyshire? Dean Mansell (@awayend ) is an exiled Chesterfield fan who runs the highly a...