By Mark Davis It’s not as lonely as you’d think up here behind the picket fence. Many have gathered on this unrealistic grassy knoll and, if I didn’t know better, I’d say they were willing me to shoot. Aim low… Read More ›
Opinion
Aaron McLean shines in promising debut
By Mark Danylczuk Number 21 – what do you think of? The number of spots on a standard dice? A well known card game? The legal drinking age in the US? That’s a few for starters, but for Bradford City fans… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus #50: Raffaele De Vita
By Ian Hemmens After the Glorious 2012/13 season that we had as a club and fans alike, how do you follow and improve on it as you take steps to meet the challenge of a higher division? What was Phil… Read More ›
The Ballad of the Boy who would have been King
By Alex Scott The Square Ball had it right. Nahki Wells going to Leeds would have been bad, but at least they’re a bigger team, you know? You can rationalise that. But them? THEM? That stings. That really stings. Not… Read More ›
A best of Nahki
By Mahesh Johal, Gareth Walker, Nick Beanland and Andrew Baxter “Please don’t go, please don’t go, I love you so, I love you so, Please break my heart… (Alt J, Breezeblocks)” None of us wanted him to go, however we… Read More ›
The need for sensible planning
By Jason McKeown There are 21 games left for Bradford City this season, but increasingly thoughts need to begin turning towards the long-term. The sale of Nahki Wells has split opinion amongst support, but one of the main threads has… Read More ›
Is the Nahki Wells transfer a better deal than it looks?
By Jason McKeown Undisclosed fee. If there’s one term guaranteed to rile football fans, it is the cloak of anonymity that a transfer can be buried underneath with the label of ‘undisclosed fee’. Why do clubs insist on doing this?… Read More ›
The boy did Well(s)
By Jason McKeown It was one of those wonderful summer evenings, and the sun could still be seen at is slowly set over the towering hills that flank the Aire Valley. And at Silsden’s ASDA Community Foundation stadium, a group… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus #49: Mark Yeates
By Jason McKeown Mark Yeates must have thought he was certain to start at Notts County on New Year’s Day. As Phil Parkinson planned a team without the services of Nahki Wells up front, Yeates, who replaced the injured Bermudian… Read More ›
A view looking in from the outside
By Richard Cowman It was an interesting outsider’s view in many ways. Since falling in love with Bradford City again last season, the recent home game with Swindon was my first visit to Valley Parade since that memorable first leg encounter against… Read More ›
