Four managers, Sheffield Wednesday coach - What became of the last Bristol City team to beat Norwich?

Bristol City make the trip to Carrow Road on Wednesday evening as they face Championship promotion hopefuls Norwich City.

The Robins are two points off of the Canaries and have no fear going into the match in the midst of an eight-game unbeaten run.

Norwich, relegated from the Premier League were the early favourites to bounce back up and have a squad capable of doing so.

For whatever reason, Norwich have been a difficult nut to crack for City, where they are winless in their last 10 matches with seven defeats and three draws.

The last time a win was tested against Norwich was in February 2009, which was over 13 years ago.

Cole Skuse opened the scoring but Jonathan Grounds equalised ten minutes later. A critical point in the match then happened as Gary Doherty was sent off for Norwich for a foul on Dele Adebola and up stepped Bradley Orr in first-half stoppage time.

Much has changed since then, Norwich have returned to the Premier League on a few occasions and City have dropped down to League One a few times.

Here’s what became of the last City team to defeat Norwich in a fixture. Can the class of 2022 end the long winless run?

Adriano Basso

Basso was a popular figure around Bristol after joining in 2005 and out of the near 300 appearances he made, 165 of them came during his time at City. Basso left in 2010 and became a back-up goalkeeper at Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League but failed to make an appearance.

He remained in England and had a short spell with Hull City, before spells in the non-league with Truro City, FC United of Manchester and Radcliffe Borough. The 47-year-old is now the goalkeeping coach at Sheffield Wednesday.

Bradley Orr

Orr served the club well from 2004 to 2010 and made over 250 appearances for the club. He departed in 2010 for Queens Park Rangers, helping them to promotion to the Premier League and later joined Blackburn Rovers. He saw out his career with loan spells at Ipswich, Blackpool and Toronto.

Liam Fontaine

Fontaine was another long-serving defender and played for City between 2006 and 2014, before departing for Scotland in 2014, joining Hibernian. The 36-year-old has remained there ever since after spells at Ross County, Dundee and most recently Edinburgh. Fontaine now also runs his own academy.

Louis Carey

Bristol-born Carey lived the dream by coming through the ranks and playing regularly for them between two spells. His first ended in 2004 after 312 league appearances and then after a brief stint at Coventry he returned for another nine years, making 2474 appearances. The 45-year-old is City’s all-time record appearance maker and he later went on to play for Shepton Mallet. Carey was most recently a Under-16’s coach at Premier League outfit Southampton.

Jamie McAllister

McAllister is now the right-hand man to another former City player at Scottish Premiership club Hibernian. His son Jamie was also a player at City, but he followed him up to Edinburgh for an undisclosed fee.

Lee Johnson

Johnson Jnr joined a year later than his dad Gary  and the midfielder was able to make himself a regular in the team. The 41-year-old made 197 appearances across five seasons for the club before winding his playing career down in Scotland. Johnson returned to the club as manager in 2016, leading them to a Carabao Cup semi-final and a top-half finish. He was sacked in 2020 and has since gone on to manage Sunderland and now his current club Hibernian.

Cole Skuse

Yate-born Skuse came through the academy under Brian Tinnion who has been an important figure in the academy. The 36-year-old had nine years at the club, making over 300 appearances. He later joined Ipswich Town and was a long-servant there but left last season to join Colchester United.

Gavin Williams

Williams was formerly the manager of Merthyr Town who play at the same level as Yate Town, but now he is resuming his playing days at Aberfan Social, who play in the fifth tier of Welsh football.

Michael McIndoe

McIndoe had a few clubs before joining City and other than Doncaster Rovers and Yeovil Town, he hadn’t really found a home. At CIty he played regularly for two years and made over 100 appearances for the Robins, scoring 12 goals. He left in 2009 joining Coventry City before returning to Scotland with Clydebank and later Stirling Albion. The 42-year-old is now in coaching and is assistant at phoenix club Gretna 2008.

Nicky Maynard

Maynard had a hot scoring streak at City and that caught the attention of West Ham United who bought every striker that was performing in the division. He scored two goals as the Hammers won promotion through the play-offs but he was later sold to City’s Severnside rivals Cardiff, where he was plagued by injury. Manard has now dropped down the leagues to play for Macclesfield, who are owned by Robbie Savage.

Dele Adebola

Adebola had arrived at City with plenty of experience behind him at Crewe Alexandra, Birmingham and Coventry. The 47-year-old had a season-and-a-half at the club, scoring 16 goals in 56 league appearances, before going to Nottingham Forest after rejecting a new deal. He last played in 2013 for Rushall Olympic. Adebola is now a director at numerous businesses such as Ebikebrum CIC and Strike9training.

Izzy Iriekpen

Izzy Iriekpen’s time at City was short, he made just nine appearances after joining in January 2009, he was later released the same summer. He joined Hamilton Academical in Scotland but made just two appearances before winding down his career.

Ivan Sproule

Sproule’s longest spell as a player was at Bristol City, playing there from 2007 to 2011, making 130 appearances and scoring seven goals. He left for Hibernian after loans at Yeovil and Notts County, before going to Ross County. He then returned to Northern Ireland with Linfield and later Ballinamallard United, Sproule went in to management and was manager of Dergview of the NIFL Championship from 2018 to 2021.

Stern John

John is a memorable name around many English clubs and in 2008 he had a short spell at Ashton Gate, playing there until the end of the season, scoring two goals in 26 games. John turned to the non-league and then later played in his native Trinidad & Tobago where was awarded the Chacoina Medal, which is the second highest state decoration of the country. The 45-year-old is now the national team manager of Saint Lucia.