“I will be always be grateful to you. I'm very sure that the cursed Ashton Gate vision of our club... "THE GAS", did not insert itself into this song until the late 1980s, early 1990s. As young as I was at the time (15) from the very first moment I heard about this idea at some long forgotten, pre season friendly game back in 69, I and those around me immediately recognized the massive commercial impact that this jaw dropping idea could have upon our club. As she wheeled her wheelbarrow, through streets broad and narrow...singing [1-2, 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4] ROVERS! Oh yes, here's the songs merry, but extremely rowdy finish, which was always done, in a massed and highly intimidating, war like, brotherly bounce "......TRA LA LA - LA LA LA, TRA LA LA - LA LA LA... TRA LA LA - LA LA LA, TRA LA LA - LA LA LA". Chris Brown's own account of the bloody mess he witnessed that day was completely and utterly spot on. is an article covering the complete history of an English football club based in Bristol, England, from their formation in 1883 as the Black Arabs until the present day. A large number of players have played for both City and Rovers since the clubs were formed in the 19th Century. Like it or hate it, this was the way things were in those days on the Tote and no amount of head ducking is ever going to change that. It was originally coined as a derogatory term by Bristol City fans, but was adopted with a mixed bag of enthusiasm by the Rovers faithful and now forms part of the Jackal and Hyde … [8] The match, which was broadcast live on Sky Sports, was overshadowed by a post match pitch invasion by a number of Bristol City supporters, leading to more than 50 arrests being made and three police officers injured. I mean here, just who the flying 'F**k' cared about the ages of these young men or what clan these boys had once represented up on the old Tote, when this brilliant idea all alone, should have stood out immediately, as being a real building block towards our club creating a fantastic, blazing commercial beacon, not only for us all to use, but for Bristol itself. From the mid 1970s and for a number of very interesting reasons, some of our fans began to embrace the term gashead as being a banner name for the fans themselves and this eventually led to many of our fans in the 1990s to start referring to both our club and our team as being The Gas too and with that, there you pretty well have the standard set story as it now stands. At first glance, back in the late 1960s when I first heard this tale I was not at all impressed by this version; preferring like most other fans of my own age group, to believe instead, that our swashbuckling title just had to have been inspired by Bristol's long seafaring history... well that sounded like pure logic...RIGHT!