Did he have four years of almost unbroken success before that dodgy spell that presumably caused 80% of their fan base to want him out?
Asking for a friend.
Even assuming Bristol City let us speak to him, Johnson strikes me as another nice guy who doesn't have an air of the disciplinarian about him - and that is what we need at the moment more than anything else. All we'd be doing is swapping Chris Hughton for Chris Hughton-lite. Let's face it...