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• 2013/14 season preview: A big season for…Stockdill & Swain

  By Width of a Post on July 31, 2013

  By Andrew Baxter Since the start of the 2009/10 season, eight players have come through City’s youth academy to make a league appearance for the Bantams. However, they have made a combined total of just 12 appearances between them. It is evident that there has… Read More ›

• 2013/14 season preview: A big season for…McHugh & Oliver

  By Width of a Post on July 30, 2013

  By Andrew Baxter This season could be crucial in the career of the huge centre-back and the Irish youngster. For Luke Oliver, the 2011/12 Player of the Season, a first team place is no longer guaranteed. For Carl McHugh, who benefitted from… Read More ›

• 2013/14 season preview: Managing expectations

  By Width of a Post on July 30, 2013 • ( 5 )

  By Jason McKeown They say that old habits die hard. And for the Bradford City community, the challenge this season is surely to maintain the feel-good factor of 2012/13 rather than reverting to type and allowing negativity to flourish during… Read More ›

• 2013/14 season preview: Is the weather nice in League 1?

  By Width of a Post on July 29, 2013 • ( 3 )

  By Alex Scott To kick off the build up to the start of the exciting new League One (!) campaign, a handful of Width of a Post writers have taken to the pundit chair to answer a series of Bradford… Read More ›

• Seen it all before

  By Width of a Post on July 27, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Bradford City 1 Thompson 55 Doncaster Rovers 2 Cotterill 22, Bennett 85 Saturday 27 July, 2013 Words and images by Jason McKeown Pre-season is proving to be wholly forgettable, and that suits me just fine. Just a couple of new… Read More ›

• He managed Bradford City #12: Frank Stapleton

  By Width of a Post on July 26, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  By Nick Beanland As someone who’s supported City since 1984, if I had to choose a manager to write about it would be one of those rare creatures who brought success to the club: Cherry, Dolan, Kamara, Jewell or Parkinson. It… Read More ›

• A tale of Trinidad

  By Width of a Post on July 25, 2013

  By Ian Hemmens Whilst we’re all chomping at the bit waiting for the new season to start, I thought I’d pass the time by telling you all a tale from years gone by. Now Bradford City have always had a great… Read More ›

• Yeates shows his class as the Bantams win at Cleethorpes

  By Width of a Post on July 24, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Grimsby Town 0 Bradford City 2 Hanson 60, Yeates 86 Tuesday 23 July, 2013 Words and image by Mike Holdsworth In a crowd of 1,330, the small City following of around 250 squeezed into a tight corner of Blundell Park…. Read More ›

• He managed Bradford City #11: Nicky Law

  By Width of a Post on July 23, 2013 • ( 1 )

  By Jason McKeown Nicky Law looked more like your PE teacher than he did the manager of your football club. There was something about the way his clothes didn’t quite seem to fit him properly, and of course his distinctive… Read More ›

• Bantams sign off Ireland tour with another four-goal win

  By Width of a Post on July 21, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Bohemians 1 Scott 11 Bradford City 4 Thompson 21, Nelson 45, Swain 48, Wells 78 Saturday 20 July, 2013 Written by Mark Scully (images by Damien Wilkinson) Bradford City ran out easy winners in the Dublin sunshine at Dalymount Park to… Read More ›