please log in to view this image I've set up this blog (Monday-Friday) to give extra coverage to teams I cover for the national press. Any views and opinions are all my own. Best wishes, Jeff. Follow me on Twitter and I'll update you each time I blog. http://twitter.com/JeffTaplin P.S. During the summer break I reserve the right to ramble on about anything and everything! Wednesday, 6 November 2013 please log in to view this image My clipping from today's paper Jay Emmanuel-Thomas helped drag City out of the drop zone and set up their first home win. Striker Emmanuel-Thomas shrugged of a challenge from former Robins defensive target Kyle McFadzean in the 80th minute before slotting in his twelfth goal of the campaign from twelve yards. Three minutes from time Emmanuel-Thomas fed winger Joe Bryan who blasted in his first league goal for the club from a tight angle to seal City's second win of the season. Less than one minute after the opener keeper Elliot Parish shut out Crawley striker Jamie Proctor's point blank header to settle City nerves. Parish did brilliantly to palm away a stinging twenty yard drive from striker Emile Sinclair - the only real effort of a dull first half. But City came out for the second half with more intent and skipper Sam Baldock drilled a shot wide while defender Karleigh Osbourne nodded an effort over. Relieved City boss Sean O'Driscoll watched his team climb out of the relegation zone and said: "It was a difficult ninety minutes as they are a good side. We're on a run where confidence is fragile. The players dug in though. It was a performance that warranted the three points. "It was one of those wins where if we'd been at the tip of the table it's a professional one, but where we are at the moment it's seen as a scrappy win." Crawley manager Richie Barker groaned: "It was frustrating. I thought we did the right things for 80 minutes - unfortunately a games lasts 90 minutes. Our decision making in those last ten minutes cost us. There was nothing in the game. I thought it had 0-0 written all over it and I would've taken that." http://jefftaplin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/bristol-city-2-crawley-town-0.html
