Former Bristol City striker Chris Garland will be at Ashton Gate on Saturday to sign copies of his recently published autobiography A Life Of Two Halves.

He will be at the Bristol City Mega Store between noon and 1pm, before the City's home game against Nottingham Forest.

Chris, 59, grew up in the shadow of Ashton Gate, and joined Bristol City as an apprentice at the age of 17.

He became established in the first team as a striker, and in 1971 signed for Chelsea in the old First Division.

In 1974, he moved to Leicester City, returning to Bristol in 1976 to play for City, also in the First Division.

He was one of the Ashton Gate Eight, whose contracts were terminated in the financial crash of 1982.

After his football career ended, he suffered business failures, bankruptcy, redundancy, marriage break-up, gambling problems, and a brief period of being homeless and sleeping rough.

Despite having Parkinson's disease, which some medical experts believe may have been caused by heading heavy leather footballs, the former Bristol City star says: "I'm more contented now than I've ever been."