Stat Attack: Bristol City vs. Notts County

Notts County and Bristol City have faced each other a gargantuan 106 times over their history. This is because both clubs have been regularly playing each other since the 1900s.

Tomorrow will however be just the fourth league encounter between the two in just over ten years.

City only just hold the upper edge, having won 43 games to Notts's 39, while 24 matches have been drawn.

The city of Bristol is the largest metro area in England never to have won the English top tier championship.

In 1907 they finished runners-up in Football League Division One, which is their highest ever final position.

City won the Welsh Cup – despite being an English club – in 1934.

In 1982, Bristol City became the first English club to suffer three consecutive relegations.

Ashton Gate is the only ground in the English football league not to accommodate executive boxes.

Despite their underachievements, Bristol City is supported by some notable celebrities, including John Cleese of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame, Formula 1 great Jenson Button, and actor Russell Crowe.

Bristol City shares the English football league record for consecutive wins, notching up 14 wins in a row during the 1905-06 season. This record is shared with Arsenal, Manchester United, and Preston North End.

Bristol was home to Harvey’s Bristol Cream Sherry, created in Bristol in 1796, and J S Fry, who produced the world’s first bar of chocolate in Bristol in 1847.

Bristol has been voted one of the most popular places to live in Britain and one of the top three most popular cities.

The Plimsoll line, Ribena and Tarmac were all invented in Bristol.

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City are looking to regain top spot in League One.

Matt Smith will be hoping to start up-front after scoring four against Gillingham in Tuesday's Football League Trophy area final first leg.

Notts midfielder Liam Noble is available after suspension, while Alefe Santos has joined on a youth loan from Derby.

Striker Jake Cassidy and winger Stephen McLaughlin, however, have both returned to their parent clubs.