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The ref has blown his whistle for full time.
Bristol City are replacing David Noble with Craig Woodman.
Bristol City are replacing Lee Johnson with Alex Russell.
Bristol City are replacing Phil Jevons with Cole Skuse.
Brighton are replacing Doug Loft with Tony Stokes.
The referee has booked Richard Carpenter.
Sam Rents is booked for unsporting behaviour.
Alexandre Frutos is being taken off, Jake Robinson has come on in his place.
The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 0.
Joel Lynch is replaced by Sam Rents.
Half time whistle is blown by C Foy
Scott Murray goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.
The referee has booked Louis Carey.
Jennison Williams is booked for unsporting behaviour.
Goal!! Bristol City have scored with Scott Brown putting it in the back of the net.
It's 3pm on Saturday, September 2nd, the match has kicked off.
With three players in jail the black joke going the rounds was that City will be playing their next home games at Leyhill, the open prison, a dozen miles north of Bristol. But this win was no laughing matter for a club in deep crisis for its lack of discipline on and off the field. It was in fact a vital one to show their fans they intend to conquer the demons which have pursued them for so long. Fate had a twist of its own for the goal that won it came from Scott Brown who had stood in the dock with the jailed three. He was given a community service order for his part in a drunken nightclub brawl and it took calculated courage by manager Gary Johnson to send him out for his first start of the season. This is still a crisis that has to be kept in proportion. The brawl happened 11 months ago and only one of the three, captain Steve Brooker, serving a month, would have played here. Wales international Dave Partridge is on loan to Leyton Orient and Bradley Orr was starting a three-match suspension after being sent off in the week at Northampton for threatening his team-mate, Louis Carey. There were still question marks hanging over City's performance but Brighton were just not sharp enough to take advantage. They tried to play football and after going behind carried the game to City, but not with the tempo needed to swing the scoreline back to an even keel. All their best chances came down the left where City's Richard Keogh, normally a centre-back struggled to fill in at right-back for Orr. For Brighton Dean Cox was always working tirelessly to set up chances but the one striker, Alex Revell, managed only one shot and that was well covered by Brazilian keeper Adriano Basso. Basso had more to do when Brighton's skipper Richard Carpenter let fly with a 25-yard shot in the second half. It was a low cracker and Basso just fished it out at the bottom of his left-hand post. Brown's goal on 21 minutes owed so much to the tight skills of academy boy Jennison Williams, who outwitted three defenders to cross the ball from the byline. Seagulls keeper Michels Kuipers parried Phil Jevons' shot but Brown was there to run it in from eight yards out.
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