The 116th season of Bristol City’s existence and their sixth straight in the Championship won’t linger long in the memory as, in many cases and at many times, it felt like a slog and a physical, mental and emotional test of everyone involved.
It began with the continuation of a dreadful run at Ashton Gate and as well-organised but limited attacking team ground out results, but ended with the polar opposite as free-flowing City couldn’t stop scoring, amid calamitous defending, and looked strong in BS3 as they toiled on the road.
It was, as a cursory glance of the results will tell you, a deeply inconsistent nine months which fluctuated between promising to seemingly perpetual doom from week to week, only for Nigel Pearson and his team to pull out results when they needed it the most and restore faith in the project.
