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• 2013/14 season preview: The players’ expectations (1/2)

  By Width of a Post on August 1, 2013

  By Alex Scott What do we want from this season? What would we class as a successful year? Our expectations are all over the map. There are the pessimists who would take a death-defying charge to 20th. There are the… Read More ›

• The final rehearsal sees the Bantams beaten by Harrogate

  By Width of a Post on July 31, 2013 • ( 3 )

  Harrogate Town 2 Nowakowski 5, Worsfold 37 Bradford City 1 Curtis 36 Tuesday 30 July, 2013 By Matt Sugden 736 people attended the hastily arranged final match of Phil Parkinson’s pre-season preparations last night at Harrogate Town. The City manager… Read More ›

• 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 ›