Archived News from November 2002
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BRISTOL CITY - STAT ATTACK
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Bristol City played at Field Mill for the first time at the end of the 1937-38 season, when they managed their first of overall three wins in the up to this day highest-scoring league encounter by the tune of a 5-3 scoreline. Four days later City also won the home fixture 2-1. The first Stags home win (of total six) was a 3-2 the following season on October 10, 1938. After World War II, the teams were highly involved in the promotion race from the old 3rd division in the 1964-65 season. Although Bristol City eventually got promoted by a slightly better goal-average than the Stags then, the Stags took three points off their promotion rivals by winning 3-0 at home and drawing 1-1 away. Twenty-five seasons later, in 1989-90, the Stags took four points (three-points ruling from the start of the 1981-82 season) off City by winning 1-0 at home and drawing 1-1 away only three days before Steve Wilkinsons five-goal haul in the 5-2-drubbing of now Premiership team Birmingham. The Stags biggest win was a 4-0 on Easter Monday, 1964. Three days earlier the Stags recorded their first-ever league win at a Bristol ground by winning 3-2. The biggest defeat was a 0-4 away one on the opening day of the 1983-84 season. Four seasons later, in 1987-88, the teams met at Field Mill on the opening day with the Stags running out 2-0 winners.
But the one most memorable game between the two teams was the Freight Rover Trophy Final at the end of the 1986-87 when the Stags won 5-4 on penalties (the game is featured in the vintage Stags section). Played for both sides: Mark Lever, Paul Holland, Lee Peacock, John Quigley, Home games: P 11, W 6, D 2, L 3, GF 22, GA 14 Away games: P 11, W 2, D 2, L 7, GF 11, GA 23 1937-38 3-5 1938-04-23 1-2 1938-04-27 Div 3 (S) 1938-39 3-2 1938-10-29 0-2 1939-03-04 Div 3 (S) 1946-47 1-3 1947-05-17 2-5 1946-10-19 Div 3 (S) 1963-64 4-0 1964-03-30 3-2 1964-03-27 Div 3 (old) 1964-65 3-0 1965-03-20 1-1 1964-11-07 Div 3 (old) 1982-83 1-1 1982-11-13 1-3 1983-03-26 Div 4 (old) 1983-84 0-1 1984-03-27 0-4 1983-08-27 Div 4 (old) 1986-87 2-0 1987-04-11 0-0 1986-11-04 Div 3 (old) 1987-88 2-0 1987-08-15 2-1 1988-02-20 Div 3 (old) 1988-89 2-2 1988-10-29 0-2 1989-03-21 Div 3 (old) 1989-90 1-0 1989-10-21 1-1 1990-03-31 Div 3 (old) Freight Rover Trophy 1987-05-24 5-4 penalties (FT 1-1)Final FA-CUP 2-3 1999-10-30 (1st round) Svante Bernhard |
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