Championship

Robins can start the party

by
The LeaguePaper Team
23 April 2017

By Richard Latham

WINNING FEELING: Bristol City’s Aden Flint celebrates his crucial goal
PICTURES: JMP

LEE JOHNSON planned one small celebration as his Bristol City team all but mathematically secured Championship survival with a storming second-half comeback.
The result left the Robins six points clear of third-frombottom Blackburn Rovers with only two games left, and with a vastly superior goal difference.
“I am going home to give the wife a cuddle,” said Johnson. “She has been through a lot with me this season.
“While I feel like I want to really celebrat...

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