New Bristol City boss Steve Coppell claims the club's Academy system must produce first-team players in order to justify its existence. City's Academy is jointly financed by Football Association grants and funds from the club's own coffers. But in these austere times, Coppell insists the youth programme must benefit the club if it is to continue attracting the same level of funding in the future.
Bristol Evening Post

Bristol City FC has won permission for an entrance to its planned new 30,000-seater stadium at Ashton Vale. The consent means the club has cleared another giant hurdle towards building the new £92milion stadium on greenbelt land on the edge of the city. Bristol City Council has already given its backing to the new stadium but the entrance would be over the border in North Somerset.
Bristol Evening Post