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• 2012/13 season preview pt 1: Can City afford this team?

  By Width of a Post on August 6, 2012 • ( 1 )

  By Jason McKeown A two-year cycle has shaped Bradford City ever since relegation from League One in 2007. On even numbered years, the club has spent the close season talking up promotion chances and spending relatively big. But after such… Read More ›

• Filling an RR-shaped hole

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  Bradford City 0 Bury 3 McLaughlin OG 5, John-Lewis 19, Elford-Alliyu 61 Saturday 4 August, 2012 By Jason McKeown Unless you’re one of those trolls who pollutes the T&A message boards panicking about the slowness of signings, chances are you… Read More ›

• Nathan Doyle re-joins Bradford City

  By Width of a Post on August 4, 2012 • ( 1 )

  By Jason McKeown There have been many different ways I’ve heard about a new Bradford City signing over the years, but sitting inside Valley Parade and watching the players warming up – and then realising the unfamiliar one going through… Read More ›

• 5-1 – The greatest Bradford City matches of the last 50 years (as voted by Bradford City supporters of 2012)

  By Width of a Post on August 3, 2012

  5: Everton 2 City 3 (25th January 1997) FA Cup The best City goal of all time? You’d be hard pressed to beat the sheer outrageousness of Chris Waddle lobbing Neville Southall from just inside his own half to place… Read More ›

• 10-6 – The greatest Bradford City matches of the last 50 years (as voted by Bradford City supporters of 2012)

  By Width of a Post on August 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  10: Middlesbrough 0 City 1 (7th August 1999) Premier League City spent much of the build up to their first top flight campaign in 77 years being ridiculed by the national press and falling apart internally, due to contract disputes… Read More ›

• Nothing else to do right now but enjoy the forgettable

  By Width of a Post on August 1, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Guiseley AFC 0 Bradford City 4 Gary Jones 31, Ritchie Jones 34, Wells 62 + 78 Wednesday 1 August, 2012 By Jason McKeown So much of pre-season becomes meaningless and easily forgotten when viewed retrospectively – and yet when you’re… Read More ›

• 20-11 – The greatest Bradford City matches of the last 50 years (as voted by Bradford City supporters of 2012)

  By Width of a Post on July 31, 2012

  20: West Ham 5 Bradford City 4 (12th February 2000) Premier League A defeat, but what a game! City’s bid for top flight survival was beginning to look strong after back-to-back home wins over Watford and Arsenal, and so when… Read More ›

• 30-21 – The greatest Bradford City matches of the last 50 years (as voted by Bradford City supporters of 2012)

  By Width of a Post on July 30, 2012

  Joint 30: Huddersfield Town 2 City 2 (4th October 2011) Johnstone’s Paint Trophy It’s not been a great few years – from a claret and amber point of view – for the City/Town rivalry. Having enjoyed a two-division gap over… Read More ›

• The greatest Bradford City matches of the last 50 years (as voted by Bradford City supporters of 2012)

  By Width of a Post on July 30, 2012 • ( 1 )

  By Jason McKeown Prologue Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who has got in contact to vote for their top five Bradford City matches. We have been inundated with votes and comments – and when the pressures of my… Read More ›

• Tourism

  By Width of a Post on July 29, 2012

  

  Bray Wanderers 1 Dooney 85 Bradford City 2 Wells 22, Hannah 61 Saturday 28 July, 2012 By David Lawrence What fortunes have become of the travelling City faithful whilst touring Ireland, I wondered. I was really looking forward to hearing… Read More ›