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We called for Incider readers to flood us with photos
for our rogues' gallery – and our inbox is still slightly
damp as the shots continue to trickle in. Many of you who bowed
to vanity and sent in snaps are now being hunted by detectives suspicious
that your eyes are too close together. George Lucas has also contacted
us keen for extras for the next Star Wars movie (another intergalactic
bar shot involving mutant aliens, apparently.) So those of you who
have inexplicably opted out so far, keep those photos coming! Please
email editor@theincider.com
with your vital stats and a pic.
Squirrel
My real name is Hazel McDonald. I’m the mum
of six sons. I work nights but try to get to watch the City as often
as funds and time will let me.
Favourite current player: Matty Hill
All-time favourite player: Um?
Least favourite away ground: Erm…
Favourite match: Away to Cardiff last December.
Proudest moment: ?
Stucider
My real name is Stuart and I’m 18 years old.
I’ve been watching City since I was about 11. This is my fourth
season of having a season ticket. My first match was the Chris Garland
testimonial against Manchester United (3-3)
Favourite current player: Louis Carey
All time favourite player: Shaun Goater
Favourite away ground: Bloomfield Road
Least favourite away ground: Ninian Park
Favourite match: 3-1 at Cardiff last year!
Glyn Rileys Mullet
My real name is Matt and Im 26 years old. I’ve been watching
City since I was about seven. Oh, the years of hurt!
Favourite current player: Tommy D
All time favourite: Alan Walsh
Favourite away ground: Sixfields, Northampton
Least favourite away ground: Memorial Stand...sorry,
stadium.
Favourite match: FA Cup vs Chelsea when we won
3-1.
Bez
I’ve been watching the City since 1973.
Favourite current player: Mickey Bell
All-time favourite player: Jacki Dziekanowski
Least favourite away ground: Twerton Park
Favourite match: Derby 3 City 4 (What a buzz)
Proudest moment: Watching Spurs "trying"
to take the east end in the late 70s.
RedGal
My real name is Bethan and I’m 18. Apart from supporting
City, my other hobbies are gymnastics and playing tennis. I started
going to games a couple of seasons before we got promoted to Division
One a few years back. Without a doubt my proudest moment was meeting
my hero Clisty!
Favourite current player: Simon Clist
All-time favourite player: Andy Cole
Favourite away ground: Reading (fantastic stadium.)
Least favourite away ground: Brentford (We always
lose!)
Favourite match: Reading 1 - 3 Bristol City (Amazing
atmosphere matched by a performance only Man Utd could produce!)
Pet hate: People sat behind me CONSTANTLY slagging
off players. If that’s all you do at a game, why bother paying
your money and turning up?
Best looking player of all time: Alan Smith!
Ducky
I'm 18 years old and I'm an apprentice electrician. I live in Ashton
about two minutes from the ground. On matchdays I work in the City
shop with my old man (the bald one). I've always been a City fan
for as long as I can remember. My dad really didn't give me a choice
about that, so as soon as I was able to kick a football I've been
going down Ashton Gate.
My favourite memories of watching the City are going up to Anfield
for the great 1-0 FA Cup victory and, although this may sound weird,
travelling to Carlisle on the coach to watch us beat them 3-0 a
few seasons back.
Favourite current player: Matt Hill
All time favourite player: Dave Martin
Favourite away ground: Brentford (a pub on each
corner just shades it for me!)
Least favourite away ground: Filbert Street, Leicester.
(Not a good place to go with your girlfriend!)
Favourite Match: Liverpool 0 - 1 City
Pet Hate: Being kept in after games.
Proudest moment: Watching city at Wembley, even
if it was in "that" trophy.
Rose
The picture shows me and Joe Burnell when I had the opportunity
of presenting him with his PFA Player of the Month award.
I have lived in Bristol for ever and supported Bristol City since
I was 11, when my grandfather bought me my first season ticket.
I have had a season ticket for nearly 30 years on and off, primarily
in the Williams Stand as it's the safest place for a 'lone female'.
I'm a golf widow whose husband hates football. We have a ten-year-old
son who would rather play than watch football now, so I've saved
£30 this year by not buying him a seat which he rarely used.
I work for Orange in IT, live in Frenchay and am probably old enough
to be Tomarse's mother, but fortunately for him - I'm not.
Favourite players: Matt Hill & Scott Murray
All-time favourite player: Paul Cheesley
Favourite match: City v Portsmouth - 1-0 to win
promotion (and I've still got the
bits of grass from the pitch).
Favourite away ground: Wembley (goose bumps all
over).
Least favourite away ground: Memorial Stadium/Twerton
Park/Eastville.
Pet hate: Bad manners
Proudest moment: Watching my son captain the Colston's
under-10 cricket team (Marcus Trescothick - look out!!).
RichieB
 
I’ve been a City fan since I was born - yep 43 years ago!
Well, that’s what my dad said. He was called home from a game
in 1959 (not the Cup final) as I was about to be dropped!
At the age of seven my grandad took me to work with him. He was
the groundsman at Farleigh Hospital, where the lads used to train.
When I lived in Bishopsworth, my neighbours included Jack Connor,
Mike Gibson (still), Gordon Parr and Chuck Drury (his son Carl was
my mate). I was best man to Paul Stevens at his first wedding to
his Dutch wife. Ricky Chandler and Russell Musker remain friends.
I watched in the Enclosure until I got a season ticket in the new
Dolman Stand. The rest is too long to even attempt to write.
Without doubt the Wembley trip to watch the first Bolton game was
biggest highlight. There have been too many low points.
Godzilla
I'm 15 and live in Wells, Somerset. I started supporting City properly
through the last promotion season under John Ward, becoming hooked
and getting my first season ticket in our year in Division One.
I have many good memories from the last couple of years which include
the 2-1 win at home to league leaders Milwall with a last minute
penalty securing the points, wins against Rovers and Reading.
One which stands out, however, is our fantastic victory away to
Cardiff last season. Three goals in four minutes is enough to put
a smile on anyone’s face, but when you're playing Cardiff
in their own back yard it is particularly memorable.
Favourite current player: Lee Peacock (Feed the
cock and he will score).
All-time favourite player: Shaun Goater (Feed the
Goat and he'll score
twice as many as the cock).
Favourite away ground: Madejski Stadium, Reading
(impressive complex).
Least favourite away ground: Withdean Stadium,
Brighton.
Favourite match: Cardiff City 1-3 Bristol City
Pet hate: Jade off Big Brother (keep your clothes
on, for everyone’s sake)
Proudest moment: Doing the official BCFC Prediction
League presentation
last year (all hard work made worth it).
Potbelly
My real name is Pete and I live near the Webbington Hotel in. Somerset.
My beautiful wife Jill is from Doncaster, so she supports the Rovers
– but not the Gas! We have a son Jack, six, and daughter Adrianne,
eight. We also have two Labradors and a miniature pot-bellied pig
called Charlotte (honest)! I sit in the Williams Stand seat GM10,
close to where I used to stand on the terraces.
First City match: Anglo Scottish final vs St
Mirren
Favourite current player: Louis Carey for consistency
All-time favourite player: Clive Whitehead.
Favourite home game: City 4, Reading 0 (sheer quality).
Worst away trip: Walsall play-offs. (I hate David
Kelly.)
Ambition for City: To stay at Ashton Gate, to always
beat the Gas and Cardiff and for us to please most of the fans,
most of the time.
Burning question for RedTop: Why the goatie?
Burning question for Edson: Why the photo? Weren’t
you the one worried about having your name on your shirt in case
you got a slap?
Burning Question for Tomarse: Are you really 22?
There’s baby faced and baby faced!
DevonRed
My real name is Rob Bates. I am over 30 but under 40 and still
wonder why any league scouts haven't been to see me play. The first
game I can remember attending was during the mid-70s against Ipswich
in the days when the ground was packed and I could only see one
half unless my dad picked me up. I dabble in websites and the picture
is the one I doctored on my work website before putting it back!
Apologies for the Korean expression.
I still play football on Saturdays so don't get to see as many
games as I'd like - and when I do I’m usually rewarded with
a display as bad as that against Cambridge last season in the Cup.
I’ve been through all the ups and downs and still have eternal
hopes of a rise back to the top league. I am also a friend of a
colleague of a certain reporter for The Sun. But as with Edson,
don't hold that against me.
Favourite current players: Robin Hulbert (livewire
who should get more starts) and Matty Hill (if only he was a foot
taller).
All-time favourite player: Paul Cheesley (such
a shame when he had to retire).
Favourite away ground: Plymouth, Home Park (before
it was developed, you could get in for free!).
Least favourite away ground: Swindon (I always
end up going in the home end and having to keep quiet).
Favourite match: City 3-0 Bolton, Freight Rover
Final (the best sort of day out).
Pet hate: Football being in the winter.
Proudest moment: Runner-up in the South West Novice
Mountain Biking Championships. (The bloke who won was in the wrong
class, but I'm not bitter).
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