NOW TO AVENGE ‘WINDASS DAY'

Johnson salutes high-flying Gulls

- David Richardson

GARY JOHNSON will return to his former club Bristol City aiming for a repeat of one of his favourite victories at Ashton Gate.

The Torquay manager spent nearly five seasons in charge of the Robins taking them from League Two to the 2008 Championship play-off final, where they lost at Wembley to Hull City.

But with the national stadium being used to host European Championship fixtures, Johnson is set for a homecoming which is already reviving memories of his time at the club.

“I haven’t been there for five years or so,” he told The NLP. “I was there when the plans were there for the stadium and the new training ground, I might have got them in the Premiership if I had all that when I was there!

“It’s always nice to go back because I had an affinity with the place, we had a couple of promotions and nearly got to the Premiership, one game away, against Hull, of course, ‘Dean Windass Day’.