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• Half time team talk: What City need to do at Villa Park to secure a famous victory

  By Width of a Post on January 10, 2013 • ( 1 )

  By Mark Danylczuk Well, who saw that one coming?! The focus of my planned article has changed somewhat, as I didn’t expect to be writing from the viewpoint that City are in the ascendency going into the second leg. Simply put,… Read More ›

• Bradford City 3 Aston Villa 1: How the players rated

  By Width of a Post on January 9, 2013

  By Gareth Walker Somehow, I have got the impossible task of rating the individual performances of Tuesday night’s heroes out of ten. I really wanted to give them all full marks, and certainly nobody deserves anything less than a nine… Read More ›

• Bradford City stand 90 minutes away from Wembley after stunning Villa

  By Width of a Post on January 9, 2013 • ( 15 )

  

  Bradford City 3 Wells 19, McArdle 78, McHugh 88 Aston Villa 1 Weimann 82 Tuesday 8 January, 2013 By Jason McKeown What just happened? As someone tasked with writing a match report of tonight, I’m somewhat lost for words. Expectations… Read More ›

• Bradford City vs Aston Villa build up: Spending the League Cup windfall

  By Width of a Post on January 8, 2013 • ( 1 )

  TEAMtalk football journo Matty Briggs takes a look at 10 strikers City boss Phil Parkinson could be looking to add to his squad in the January transfer window. After firing three blanks from open play in the last three league… Read More ›

• Bradford City vs Aston Villa build up: How we got here

  By Width of a Post on January 8, 2013

  It has been some journey to reach this point. Width of a Post writers recall their memories of how Bradford City have made it through five rounds of the League Cup to achieve a spot in the semi finals. Round 1… Read More ›

• Bradford City vs Aston Villa build up: What this game means to Aston Villa

  By Width of a Post on January 7, 2013 • ( 5 )

  By Mark Scully If Paul Lambert’s side think it will be a stroll in the park at Valley Parade on Tuesday night they might want to have a little word with the stars of Arsenal’s first team that came unstuck… Read More ›

• Bradford City vs Aston Villa build up: The away fans’ view

  By Width of a Post on January 7, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Ahead of the first leg of Bradford City’s semi final with Aston Villa, The Width of a Post has swapped interviews with the superbly written Villa site, myoldmansaid.com. David Michael answers our questions. When Bradford City and Aston Villa were… Read More ›

• Bradford City vs Aston Villa build up: The Road from Wigan Pier

  By Width of a Post on January 7, 2013 • ( 2 )

  By David Pendleton I sat in the Orwell pub at Wigan looking out over the Leeds & Liverpool canal. In my mind’s eye I followed the silvery waters as they meander over the Pennines, forming an umbilical link between the… Read More ›

• Bradford City vs Aston Villa build up: David Baldwin on the club’s planning

  By Width of a Post on January 6, 2013 • ( 1 )

  As Bradford City prepare for two of the biggest games in its entire history, Head of Operations David Baldwin kindly spoke to Width of a Post about the operational arrangements, the potential financial rewards of this remarkable cup run, Phil… Read More ›

• Just one of those days

  By Width of a Post on January 6, 2013 • ( 9 )

  Barnet 2 Atieno 41, Oster 48 Bradford City 0 Saturday 5 January, 2013 By Tom Warden Several years ago I was sat idle in a recording studio on the outskirts of Manchester listening to City’s promotion bid begin a slow… Read More ›