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 ›
Opinion
The demise of the Bradford City Development Squad?
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
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 ›
Robert Molenaar, treacle and the ‘delights’ of Bristol
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 ›
The Midweek Player Focus #4: Marcel Seip
Phil Parkinson’s decision not to move Marcel Seip into his natural centre back position for the visit of Burton Albion last Saturday was arguably the strongest verification to date of how well the Dutchman is performing at left back. No… Read More ›
Appreciating Dean Windass – part three
In the final part of Width of a Post’s mini-series celebrating Dean Windass the player – parts one and two here – Tim Roche shares his personal memories of how Deano eventually became a Bradford City legend. When Dean Windass… Read More ›
Appreciating Dean Windass – part two
By Luke Lockwood, Tim Roche and Jason McKeown Isaiah Rankin is clean through on goal, and has a chance to put Bradford City 2-0 up. The packed out crowd standing Kop behind the West Brom goal wait expectedly, yet Rankin… Read More ›
Appreciating Dean Windass – part one
By Luke Lockwood, Tim Roche and Jason McKeown Last week’s confession from Dean Windass that he is suffering from depression and has tried to kill himself twice came as a huge shock. Although there have been one or two murmurings… Read More ›
Parkinson’s efforts to change the mentality begin to bear fruit
Phil Parkinson became the first non-caretaker Bradford City manager since Trevor Cherry in 1982 to lose a game at Valley Parade before he had won one. But after watching his newish-team lose weakly to AFC Wimbledon last September, the recently… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus #3: James Hanson
By Luke Lockwood Three years ago James Hanson was purchased from non-league Guiseley for the minimal sum of £7,500 – although to Bradford City no transfer fee is minimal. At that point he was viewed as one for the future…. Read More ›
