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The Robins had run out of road at the bank, and the only option to stave off apocalypse was for the club captain and the seven other highest-paid players to take voluntary redundancy. We got the PFA in and Gordon Taylor turned up to talk to us. It’s safe to say he wasn’t the most helpful person, which disappointed me. He was more or less saying we’ve got to do it. Because if not, he didn’t know what was going to happen.
The Ashton Gate Eight incident led to the introduction of the Football Creditors' Act, which means players and other clubs are paid before external creditors when a team goes into administration. Jump out of the lifeboat and give your place to someone else so you can save them. There was absolutely no regard to their families and what they were going through in life. Ken Wimshurst (chief coach): He ran a sports shop and worked at Southampton’s centre of excellence. He later scouted for Real Madrid and Barcelona. He died in July 2017, aged 79.
Nobody wants to see their business hung out to dry. I suppose who at the time would you point the fingers at? The administrators who were chasing the dream? It’s easy to think about those things. And the legacy of those "eight saviours of the club", as Taylor describes them, is now marked by a plaque outside of the stadium funded by the Bristol City Supporters Club and Trust. Ken Scott called him out after the book came out, and they may have corrected a few minor mistakes, but Geoff went on telling obviously fake stories and never openly admitted his “fraud”.
Even to this day, Bristol City is my life. I follow it as closely as I possibly can so I’m still a great fan of Bristol City and I would love to see the club get to the Premier League and do really well. But this just, unfortunately, tarnished it a bit.” Read More Related Articles There were a couple of weeks in between and I think Geoff got life threats between him and his family because of the pressure.It’s difficult to recall details of specific sessions so many years on. They kind of blur together.” (…) Gary Collier: Central defender who now lives in Florida and has managed the San Diego Nomads and also coached children at San Diego Soccer Club and Rancho Santa Fe club. I said, ‘is someone going to tell me what’s happened here? Is this a joke?’ It wouldn’t have surprised me if this was a joke because we had a few jokers at the club.
On the wall of the portacabin acquired from Bristol City's old training ground is the quote "today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't." And that was the end of that season’s run. I think had we won we would have been in contention that season as well.” It's all about encouragement. It's all about trying to help people, just getting through the small crises you get on a Saturday afternoon. Read More Related Articles
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A rare Clive Whitehead goal early in the game on 20 April 1976 clinched the Portsmouth victory, who belied their already relegated status by putting up a mighty struggle, before Bristol City clinched their long awaited return to the top division of English football. Anyway, they did a promotion where you could get cheap seats for the following season and it raised a fair bit of money. So they never needed to let me go. They could see that if we didn't do what was suggested that a lot of other people would suffer as well." 'It pushed me into bankruptcy' Trevor Tainton made almost 500 appearances as a midfielder for Bristol City
It was the first time I'd dealt with a club having problems severe enough to put them into liquidation or administration," he told BBC Sport. I was disappointed they were thinking of selling me and I’d miss out on the promotion with Bristol City. I have always wondered, if I had gone, would I have to do 14-hour days now? It was a pretty grim time and it got quite nasty,” he said. “I had two or three phone-call death threats and so did my wife. It was scary.They were in a position and were prepared to accept it for the sake of the club and the others players and took that sacrifice." 'Eight saviours of the club' Ashton Gate is now a 27,000-seater stadium, with the newly rebuilt West Stand opened for their opening game this season The media was relentless. There was a picture of us coming out of our house and saying, this is the reason why Bristol City going into liquidation and, you know, they spent all this money on houses. My house was owned by the Bridgewater Building Society and I lost that. It was all so wrong and the people that were running the club were encouraging it.
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