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 ›
Opinion
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 ›
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 ›
Parkinson’s January spending may have two objectives
No football manager would ever want their team to lose a game, but after two successive defeats the small consolation for Phil Parkinson is that his hand may have been strengthened during this January transfer window. An improvement in results… Read More ›
The Football League Show’s uncertain future is bad news
There may not have been too many reasons to have wanted to watch Bradford City on the Football League Show this season; but when anticipation of re-living the goals from the thumping 3-0 Boxing Day victory over Crewe was ruined… Read More ›
2011 reviewed: stuck in reverse
Perhaps the most depressing aspect of looking back on Bradford City’s 2011 is the familiarity of the tone and content when comparing it to recent years. Disappointment, underachievement, misadventure and frustration; for 2011 read 2010, 2009, 2008 and so many… Read More ›
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