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• The empty feeling of a postponed Bradford City match

  By Width of a Post on February 5, 2012

  Match day always begins earlier than you plan. A week’s worth of early starts for work leaves you longing for a lie in on a Saturday, but – despite how obnoxiously premature your alarm clock always seems to feel Monday… Read More ›

• Bradford City vs Crawley Town called off

  By Width of a Post on February 4, 2012

  This afternoon’s home game with Crawley Town has been postponed because of a frozen pitch. Despite the club working hard to get the match on, overnight temperatures left the pitch frozen underneath the covers and – with the forecast of… Read More ›

• A different Friday preview

  By Width of a Post on February 3, 2012

  The Width of a Post’s usual match preview is briefly on hiatus as we consider whether there is a more interesting regular article we can produce on Fridays, for your enjoyment. If you, treasured reader, have views on what you… Read More ›

• The demise of the Bradford City Development Squad?

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

  Phil Parkinson’s December Manager of the Month award may have crowned a period of significant improvement for Bradford City, but indifferent results in January have underlined how far there still is to go. With the added distraction of the January… Read More ›

• The Midweek Player Focus #5: Kyel Reid

  By Width of a Post on February 1, 2012 • ( 3 )

  Sometimes a player looks better simply through not playing. Their absence from the first team highlighting just how effective they had been previously, because of how much they are suddenly missed. Kyel Reid was absent for five games after injuring… Read More ›

• OB, Luke leaves Bantams; OB, Andy suffers from depression

  By Width of a Post on January 31, 2012 • ( 1 )

  Luke O’Brien’s on-off transfer to Exeter City finally went through this afternoon, with the 23-year-old joining the League One outfit until the end of the season. O’Brien has not started a game for over two months and figured only 13… Read More ›

• Robert Molenaar, treacle and the ‘delights’ of Bristol

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

  By Ian Sheard “Let’s go to Bristol for my birthday,” my mate suggested to me a few months ago via the power of Facebook “We can go down on Saturday, watch the game and come back Sunday.” “Sounds like a… Read More ›

• Join the Skipton Bantams on the road to Shrewsbury Town

  By Width of a Post on January 30, 2012

  The fledgling Skipton and Craven Bantams Supporters Club is running a bumper coach trip to attend the Shrewsbury Town away fixture on Easter Monday (9 April). For a price of £18 for members and £20.50 for non-members, you can get… Read More ›

• Familiar narrow margins as Bradford City stay in danger

  By Width of a Post on January 28, 2012

  Bristol Rovers 2 Brown 6, Richard 55 Bradford City 1 Syers 72 Saturday 28 January, 2012 A wide-ranging flurry of opinions from different Bradford City supporters could be heard upon departing the Bristol Rovers away terrace and into the cluttered… Read More ›

• Mark Stewart heads back to Scotland on loan

  By Width of a Post on January 27, 2012 • ( 1 )

  Bradford City striker Mark Stewart is finalising a loan deal to Scottish First Division side Hamilton Academical for the rest of the season. The 23-year-old, who only joined the Bantams from Falkirk during the summer, has started just eight games… Read More ›