Cardiff City’s purchase of Bristol City hero Bobby Reid was a masterstroke from start to finish. He was the Robins’ star player in a season in which they celebrated premature promotion and a brave defeat against Manchester City in a giddy few midseason months.
All the while Neil Warnock was masterminding a promotion campaign and planning a bid for Reid. When rumours first surfaced, Bristol City fans were furious, especially as it coincided with the £5m sale of Aden Flint (described by one poster on a BCFC forum this week as the best centre back outside the Premier League), but things got worse.
#CardiffCity are delighted to confirm the signing of @BobbyReid93 from @BristolCity!
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— Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) June 28, 2018
In an outrageous bit of trolling, Cardiff City announced the signing of Reid with a celebration gif, mocking the gifs that Bristol City would tweet whenever they scored a goal. Urologists in the Bristol area are now working overtime to treat local patients because Reid’s ayatollah has caused so much wurzel piss to boil.
#ThankYouBobby pic.twitter.com/7HJwn5BRRU
— Bristol City FC (@BristolCity) June 28, 2018
And then, to make matters worse, Bristol City’s social media team kept posting tributes to Bobby that were one step away from “U are wiv da angels now”.
You probably don’t want to expose yourself to all the the madness going on among Bristol City’s devastated fanbase so we’ve done it for you. Twitter and Instagram have been full of death threats so we’ll ignore those and focus on One Team In Bristol. Here are our ten favourite reactions from the wurzels.
10. ReggyRed
Short but sweet. If anything sums up that first second when they saw our Bobby proudly doing the ayatollah after this dream move it’s this.
9. Supercidered
Ah so that’s what got Cardiff City promoted. Being consistently awful rather than just being awful every now and again.
8. WolfOfWestStreet
How did that work out?
7. Jacki
Oh, Jacki, Cardiff City actually are Premier League giants. At least in comparison with local rivals.
6. Vil1
I know the pronunciation of ‘gif’ is a hot topic buy we’ve settled on a spelling at least.
5. BRISTOL86
You know it’s bad when they’re casting envious glances towards Bristol Rovers.
4. ColeCiderRed
Included purely for the reference to Cardiff City’s fanbase dwindling.
3. lenred
“Couldn’t give a toss”
2. billywedlock
Hi Billy. Cardiff finished 23 points ahead of you.
1. BRISTOL86 (again)
Can you ask the club to pull their pants back up now? Neil’s done.
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