Concluding our Midweek Player Focus Close Season summer series, looking back at past player of the season winners, Mark Scully reflects on the 1999/00 champion and club legend Peter Beagrie. Ask any Bradford City fan to name their favourite all… Read More ›
Ex-players of the season
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #9: Benito Carbone (00/01)
Our summer series has now reached back to the Premier League days, as Gareth Walker remembers the Italian maverick who cost City in more ways than one. It is difficult to know where to begin when describing Benito Carbone from… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #8: Andy Myers (01/02)
This week’s Midweek ‘Player Focus – Close Season Special’ features a player we originally considered mediocre finally impress for a club beginning to accept its mediocrity, as Jason Mckeown recalls Andy Myers. There is a famous – or should that be infamous? –… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #7: Andy Gray (02/03)
The Width of a Post’s Midweek ‘Player Focus – Close Season Special’ series continues with a look back at a player very much in the Bantams’ spotlight this summer, as Ian Sheard recalls 2002/03 winner, Andy Gray Nephew of Eddie… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #6: Paul Heckingbottom (03/04)
The Width of a Post’s Midweek ‘Player Focus – Close Season Special’ series continues with a look back at the very difficult 2003/04 season, as Jason McKeown remembers Paul Heckingbottom. “Heckingshocking” was what my wife Rachel nicknamed Paul Heckingbottom as… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #5: Mark Bower (04/05)
Our close season Width of a Post ‘Midweek Player Focus – Close Season Special’ series has arrived back in 2004/05, as Jason McKeown reflects on the local hero who came of age. On a corner, by a road junction, next to… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #4: David Wetherall (05/06)
This week’s Width of a Post ‘Midweek Player Focus – Close Season Special’, looking back on past player of the season winners, sees Jason McKeown revisit 2005/06 and the crowning of David Wetherall. There’s a theory about the Premier League which… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #3: Nathan Doyle (06/07)
The Width of a Post’s close summer ‘Midweek Player Focus – Close Season Special’ series, looking back on past player of the season winners, continues with Alex Scott reflecting on the 2006/07 season – the year that a loan player,… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #2: Joe Colbeck (07/08)
Part two of The Width of a Post’s ‘Midweek Player Focus – Close Season Special’ series sees Gareth Walker revisit 2007/08 and the year Joe became a Valley Parade favourite. Joe Colbeck was another of City’s home-grown players to win… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #1: Luke O’Brien (08/09)
The Width of a Post’s regular feature ‘The Midweek Player Focus’ has taken a close season break. But to keep us going through the summer, we are going to run a spin off weekly feature looking back at past official… Read More ›
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