By Josh Pitts
A new partnership signed between Bristol Rugby and the University of the West of England will ensure talented young players in the West do not miss out on a higher education.
Bristol Rugby club CEO Steve Gorvett and UWE Vice-Chancellor Steve West shook hands on 25 August on an agreement which gives up [...]
By Matthew Anniss
BRISTOL SONICS 16 – 8 LEICESTER STORM
Cooperative Rugby League Conference, Midlands Premier Semi-Final
Bristol Sonics will play Minor Premiers Coventry Bears in the Cooperative Rugby League Conference Midlands Premier Grand Final next Saturday after edging past Leicester Storm 16-8 in a pulsating Qualification Semi-Final.
A converted try from prop forward Wes Rogers [...]
Steve Coppell has resigned from Bristol City football club after just 112 days in the job.
He will be replaced by his assistant Keith Millen who has signed a three-year deal.
The team has had a trying start to the season, however Coppell was lauded by fans for bringing star signing David James in on a one-year [...]
By Sean Beynon
Southend-on-Sea, the town’s website says, ‘leaves visitors smiling time-after-time.’ If the tourist board conducted a survey of Bristolians in the resort yesterday evening, they must have thought something had gone terribly wrong. But it was a verdict on the football, rather than the pier and the sea-front, that left 300 hundred hardy Bristol [...]
Southend 3 Bristol City 2 (AET)
David James’s inauspicious start to Bristol City life continued last night, as the England World Cup goalkeeper had to sit and suffer as a substitute during City’s extra-time Carling Cup loss.
Bristol City’s Carling Cup dream was ended by League Two Southend in front of a small crowd at Roots [...]
Clueless in attack, horribly, consistently, exposed defensively, Steve Coppell’s City could not have wished for a worse start to the season that also saw loan striker Sam Vokes stretchered off and debutant Damion Stewart dismissed in stoppage time.
Bristol Rovers were left shell-shocked after three goals in the second half condemned them to an opening-day defeat at Peterborough on Saturday.
Steve Coppell has an outstanding record… but with a spate of injuries and key players weeks behind their required fitness levels, a late season play-off charge is perhaps the best that can be hoped for.
Bristol City FC have pulled off one of the transfer coups of the summer by agreeing a deal to sign England international goalkeeper David James.
Bristol City manager Steve Coppell has refused to comment on rumours the club have launched launched an audacious bid to sign England goalkeeper David James.
