Fear's Double Topples Rovers in Eastville Derby ; Steve Smith Looks Back On December 1974

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THE Bristol derby match played at Eastville on December 28, 1974 was the first meeting in the League for our two local clubs for 10 years.

Would City pile on the misery for Rovers, who hadn't won for three matches, or could the Pirates upset their arch-rivals? Alan Dicks' City were the more in-form side, kicking off December with a 1-0 win over Aston Villa at Ashton Gate thanks to Jimmy Mann's goal and following up with another 1-0 victory as a Paul Cheesley strike saw of Nottingham Forest on December 14 to smove them to seventh place in Division II.

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Fear's Double Topples Rovers in Eastville Derby ; Steve Smith Looks Back On December 1974

All that was undone with a 3-2 defeat at Norwich the following week when, for the first time during the 1974/75 season, C...

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