Given his impending departure to the ECB has been confirmed, Richard Gould (hopefully) won’t mind this small but significant anecdote coming to light that reveals a degree about what sort of CEO he was for Bristol City.
During one of City’s more trying spells last season, which isn’t exactly narrowing it down, Gould approached Bristol Live at the Robins High Performance Centre to gauge what we felt the reaction from within the fanbase was to the poor run of results.
At the risk of a glorious self-own, the response was essentially: “you know fans, they expect everything and sometimes don’t always fully absorb the realities and complexities of a situation in the moment.”
