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- Keith Fear: A forward who has been inducted into Bristol City’s Hall of Fame. Served the club as lottery manager for three years and sold fruit and veg.
- Joe Durrell: Winger who became a PE teacher and was later a support teacher in Bethnal Green.
- Len Bond: Goalkeeper who helped Brentford win a promotion. He opened a newsagent’s in Exeter and now lives in Taunton where he runs a sportswear firm.
- Ray Cashley: Goalkeeper who later helped Chester win a promotion from Division Four. He worked in the promotions department of Weston-super-Mare FC and then became a driver.
- John Shaw: Goalkeeper who was part of two promotion squads at Ashton Gate. Now living in the Portishead area of Bristol and has run his own painting and decorating business since he retired.
- Mike Brolly: Winger who settled in Grimsby, where he won back-to-back promotions. He became a teacher at St Mary’s RC High School and then at Matthew Humberstone School, Cleethorpes.
- Clive Whitehead: Winger who later won a promotion with Exeter City, before managing Yeovil Town and then coached Bristol City’s reserves. Later, he joined the PFA as a financial adviser.
- Ken Wimshurst (chief coach): He ran a sports shop and worked at Southampton’s centre of excellence. He later scouted for Real Madrid and Barcelona. He died in July 2017, aged 79.
- John Emanuel: Welsh international midfielder who lives in Mid-Glamorgan and worked for the National Coal Board. He then became a forklift driver for a kitchen manufacturing company.
- Don Gillies: Full-back who was an Anglo-Scottish Cup winner. He ran his own fruit and veg business, but now lives in Wells, Somerset, and is an account executive for a wholesale fruit and vegetable company.
- David Rodgers: Centre-half and son of former City striker Arnold. He went to work for Clifton College as house master and is now master in charge of football.
- Gary Collier: Central defender who now lives in Florida and has managed the San Diego Nomads and also coached children at San Diego Soccer Club and Rancho Santa Fe club.
- Tom Ritchie: Striker who played for the club in all four divisions after working as a painter and decorator. He lives in nearby Clevedon andbecame a postman in Portishead.
- Paul Cheesley: Forward who was part of a promotion-winning squad at Norwich. He worked in insurance and as a salesman and publican before returning to sales with a packaging firm.
- Les Bardsley (physio): He died in January 2012, aged 86, following a short illness. He served the Robins for 21 years before opening up his private practice and also worked for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.
- Trevor Tainton: Midfielder who had three relegations with City. He spent many years working as a security officer at Oldbury Nuclear Power Station after hanging up his boots.
- Brian Drysdale: Left-back who later became player-manager of Frome Town and Shepton Mallet. He worked as a self-employed carpenter. His son Jason, had spells at Watford, Newcastle, Swindon and Northampton Town.
- Geoff Merrick: Central defender who was twice voted Robins’ player of the year. He lives on a farm at Nailsea, Bristol, which he ran, along with a family building business.
- Alan Dicks: He went on to managed Fulham, Carolina Dynamo and Charleston Battery but has now retired and lives in Heanleaze, Bristol. He has been a regular visitor to Ashton Gate for matches.
- Gerry Gow: A midfielder who managed pubs in Bristol and Dorset, where he also worked for an engineering firm before stacking shelves for Tesco. He died from cancer in October 2016.
- Gerry Sweeney: Right-back who coached at Walsall and Bristol City, as well as being a fitness coach, before becoming a postman in Portishead, Bristol.
- Jimmy Mann: Midfielder and one of the Ashton Gate Eight. He has been a security officer, milkman and dry dockman. He now lives in Goole on Humberside, where he became a jetty master.
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https://www.theleaguepaper.com/feat...citys-1975-76-division-two-promotion-winners/
very fond memories indeed
