BRISTOL CITY V COVENTRY CITY
SATURDAY APRIL 18TH AT 3PM
AT ASHTON GATE STADIUM, BRISTOL, BS3 2EJ
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 3pm.
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TRAVEL
Club Coaches - Coaches Departs White Street Car Park at 11am and cost £15.
By Road Leave the M5 motorway at junction 18, travel along the Portway (A4) following the signs for Bristol Airport/Taunton (A38). Over the swing bridge (Brunel Way), branching left into Winterstoke Road, and left again at Cruickshanks Mercedes Garage for Ashton Gate.
Street parking is limited so please arrive early and adhere to parking restrictions.
By Air Only ten minutes, by car from Bristol International Airport. Call 01275 474444 for flight times.
By Rail Only five minutes by car from Bristol Temple Meads railway station. For information on train times please call the National Railway Enquiry Services on 08457 484950.
By Bus Buses are supplied by Abus 'Service A' which costs a flat rate of 50p. The buses pick-up one hour before kick-off from the following places - Temple Meads, Old Market (Temple Way), Haymarket, Centre, Anchor Road, Hotwells. The buses return to all those destinations after the match, leaving from Ashton Road, by the Greville Smyth Park.
ADMISSION
This game is all ticket with no tickets available on the day.
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City’s League One game at Bristol City is David Coote from Nottingham.
This is his sixth season refereeing in the Football League and his only City first team games are the 2-2 draw at Preston North End in January 2013, the 1-0 win at Oldham in September 2012 and the 2-0 defeat at Reading in February 2012.
This season he has had 25 games and shown 100 yellow cards and four reds.
His assistants are Daniel Leach and Mark Pottage. The Fourth Official is John Law.
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THE LAST TIME
Saturday will see Coventry City travelling to Ashton Gate for the thirty first time in a league and cup match.
City have won on five of those visits with ten draws in the previous thirty matches, scoring twenty seven goals to Bristol City’s forty eight goals.
The Sky Blues last win was a 2-1 win in February 2014 with the others - a 2-1 win in September 2011, a 1-0 win in October 1963, a 2-0 win in September 1934 and a 2-0 win in April 1922.
City’s heaviest defeat at Ashton Gate was a 5-0 loss on Boxing Day 1978.
Earlier in the season, City lost 2-0 at Ashton Gate in a JPT Southern Area Semi-Final
The teams that night were:
City: Allsop, Pennington, Webster, Willis, Johnson, Fleck, Barton, O'Brien (Maddison 82), Swanson (Haynes 67) McQuoid (Nouble 71), Madine. Subs: Burge, Finch.
Bristol City: Fielding, Little. Bryan, Ayling, Flint, Williams, Elliott, K.Smith, Freeman (Pack 91), M.Smith (Agard 67), Wilbraham (Emmanuel-Thomas 91) Subs: Richards, Osbourne.
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MATCH BETTING
The bookmakers are making Coventry City the underdogs to win at Bristol City on Saturday.
The bookies have City at 11/2 to win with Bristol City at 4/7 and 3/1 the draw.
If you are planning on having a bet on the game, make sure you shop around for the best odds as some bookmakers can be rather tight with their odds. You can check the prices by clicking on http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/bristol-city-v-coventry/winner