By Jason McKeown Afternoons like the one experienced on Boxing Day provide an emphatic reminder of the importance of the main job in hand – escaping this bloody division. I am not one of those arrogant, snobbish types who looks… Read More ›
Opinion
Review of 2012 – part one
By Jason McKeown There is a clear narrative to follow when it comes to reviewing the year of 2012 for Bradford City. It starts off by looking back at one of the low points from the second half of last… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus #27: Carl McHugh
The Rocky Road to Bradford By Damien Wilkinson It’s around 4.15pm on Saturday 24 November, 2012, at a wet Memorial Stadium, and Carl McHugh has just equalised for Bradford City at Bristol Rovers, with a powerful header to make the… Read More ›
Wayne Jacobs – a faithful City Gent
By Damien Wilkinson Look around the current City squad. See any long serving team members? Thought not. Following Lee Bullock’s departure at the end of last season, James Hanson Jon McLauhglin is the club’s longest serving player, joining in 2009,… Read More ›
City 1 Arsenal 1 (3-2 pens): Vindication? No, this was magical
By Alex Scott Bradford City fans are having a pretty good time right now. Yesterday’s surprise reinstatement in the FA Cup formed another swell on the glorious wave we are all riding with abandon. Whilst the Bantams currently stand as… Read More ›
City 1 Arsenal 1 (3-2 pens): I was(n’t) there
By Tom Warden When the subject comes up years down the line, there will be many more than the 23,971 who were in the stadium for City’s defeat of Arsenal who will claim that they were actually there, I may be one… Read More ›
City 1 Arsenal 1 (3-2 pens): how the players performed
By Phil Abbott A sublime acceptance of reality set in today, as the Bantams began to come to terms with their exceptional giant killing achievements. If fellow City fans are like me, you will have already relived the game more… Read More ›
The heart of football
By Mark Scully From the Bernebeu to the Memorial Stadium in just under a week, does that entitle me to be called a Ground Hopper? Or is that just a non-league term? Either way, one Saturday I’m seeing Iker Casilles,… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus #26: Jon McLaughlin
By Alex Scott Jon McLaughlin’s story isn’t playing out how it is supposed to. In a way, it never has. Despite his own steady growth curve, his on-field career has run in fits and starts. Now with him finally reaching… Read More ›
The Boy in Brazil
By Damien Wilkinson Whilst finding myself with some time to kill at the end of a business trip to Brazil, and furthermore missing the antics at Valley Parade for the visit of Exeter City, I thought it might be appropriate… Read More ›