Founders - Center Midfielders

Middelboe - An awkward, shy man with long, skinny arms and a sunken chest. But as his long international career and writing of coaching manuals showed, he lacked neither skill nor intelligence. Middelboe came to the attention of English clubs through his participation in two Olympic tournaments in 1908 and 1912 (both times the English team beat Denmark in the final). By now, English football was a melting pot for the world game, with more than 2,500 foreigners having played in the English league. Middelboe was the first Dane.
Despite of signing for a professional team, Middelboe was decidedly an amateur player. Football was never an all-consuming passion for him, and indeed he never earned a penny during his lengthy career. He was a gentleman amateur in a working man’s game. Despite his potential wealth, he made his living as a banker during his time in London, while also being a qualified lawyer.

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Wedlock - They often say you can be fat and fit. Well that was certainly true of Bristol City’s most capped footballer William John Wedlock.
Bedminster-born footballing icon Billy "Fatty" Wedlock was the homegrown hero who rescued Bristol City from the doldrums & with his infectious skill and personality, elevated the club into the First Division for the first time in its history...
A unique centre-half of diminutive proportions having that low centre of gravity  (like Maradona and Messi), what he lacked in inches he made up for in sheer talent - coupled with a superhuman work ethic. Nicknamed the "india rubber man", Wedlock played 26 times for his country, becoming in the process Bristol City's original England international superstar. 
He retired from the game in 1921 before running a pub near the ground at Ashton Gate.
Wedlock’s name lived on after his death in 1960 with the Wedlock stand that now gone.