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A pleasant headache
Rotherham United vs Bradford City match preview @New York Stadium on Saturday 1 September, 2012 By Luke Lockwood The ‘new’ Bradford City take their first trip to the brand new, New York Stadium on Saturday afternoon reportedly followed by a… Read More ›
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Finding the line between banter and abuse
By Jason McKeown The first local away trip of the season, and a first ever trip to the New York stadium – you can be sure that this weekend’s clash between Rotherham and Bradford City will attract a healthy away… Read More ›
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Bring on the Big Boys!
Watford 1 Anya 71 Bradford City 2 Reid 85, Thompson 90+4 Tuesday 28 August, 2012 By Tom Warden I’ll admit it; I’m a bit of a sucker for pre-season optimism. I love the feeling of reading about new signings and… Read More ›
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The toughest test so far, as City reluctantly travel to Watford
Watford vs Bradford City match preview (League Cup second round) @Vicarage Road on Tuesday 28 August, 2012 By Gareth Walker I think that it would be fair to say that when Bradford City drew Watford away in the Capital One… Read More ›
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Valley Parade school falls through, for now?
By Jason McKeown After the optimism of Saturday’s five-star Bantams show, news has broken today – via education message boards and then Twitter – that the planned Valley Parade primary school within the old club shop has fallen through. The Financial Times… Read More ›
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The disparity, and what it could mean
By Jason McKeown So, on Saturday was it a case of Bradford City being utterly magnificent, or AFC Wimbledon being utterly woeful? The answer, as is so often the case in these situations, probably lies somewhere in-between. Nevertheless, on an… Read More ›
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Bantams end promising first week by going goal crazy
Bradford City 5 Wells 3, Haynes-Brown OG 13, Davies 31, McArdle 37, Hanson 45 AFC Wimbledon 1 Harris 35 Saturday 25 August, 2012 By Mark Scully 1987 was the last time Bradford City ran riot and scored five goals in… Read More ›
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Going again as Bradford City welcome AFC Wimbledon
Bradford City vs AFC Wimbledon match preview @Valley Parade on Saturday 25 August, 2012 By Jason McKeown As this time of year, you can often determine a football supporter’s age by their reaction to viewing the early season league table…. Read More ›
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The table never lies – or does it?
By Phil Abbott Many a lively debate between fans of the same, or even different clubs, has included the old cliché ‘the table never lies’. Statistically speaking I guess, it can only be true of the final league standings, but… Read More ›
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Caught up in a woeful Flexi-card rollout
By Omar Eliwi My initial brief for this article was to add to Luke’s match report – my thoughts on Phil Parkinson’s summer business and, having witnessed our first home match, our prospects for the coming season. But instead of… Read More ›