By Alex Scott Candles in the Dark 1. Peter Jackson stands sixth in the Bradford City all-time post-war appearance list. ‘Jacko’ is up on the pantheon of City heroes, not just for what he did for the club (a lot),… Read More ›
Archie Christie
FIFA rules against Bradford City on Mark Stewart
By Jason McKeown FIFA has today announced that Bradford City must pay Falkirk 250,000 euros compensation for the signing of Mark Stewart in the summer of 2011. Stewart arrived at Valley Parade on a free transfer; but being only 22-years-old… Read More ›
RIASA tie-up could prove a Mega deal for Bradford City
By Jason McKeown Mark ‘Mega’ Ellis spent almost all of the 1980s playing on the left wing for Bradford City. 20 years on and long-since retired, the Bradfordian continues to supply important assists for his hometown club. Ellis’ influence on… Read More ›
Speaking to David Baldwin – part two
By Jason McKeown Following on from part one. On the Arsenal game, the online ticket system seemed to work really well… Yes it has, in the main. We have a situation where 9,000 have bought online, and I think in… Read More ›
Stop the press
By Jason McKeown As news coming out of Valley Parade seemingly grinds to a standstill, two professionals who have spent several years reporting on Bradford City rocked up at the latest Skipton and Craven Bantams Supporters Club meeting, on Wednesday,… Read More ›
2011/12 review: what the club got wrong
The second of Width of a Post’s end of season ‘essays’ sees Jason McKeown share his personal views on where things might have gone wrong for City. “We develop players. We don’t have them growing in greenhouses out the back because we don’t have… Read More ›
Re-discovering and quickly losing Bradford City’s mojo
By David Pendleton Hope is probably the most powerful weapon available to a football club. At the start of this season we were being offered a vision. After finishing in the lowest league position since the 1960s, and had endured… Read More ›
Do you have a question for Archie Christie?
Last September, I – Jason McKeown – and former writing partner Michael Wood had the pleasure of getting to meet and spend the day shadowing then-Bradford City Chief Scout and Head of Football Development, Archie Christie. From which we wrote… Read More ›
A job Well(s) done
Northampton Town 1 Carlisle 52 Bradford City 3 Wells 11, 39, 52 Saturday 14 April, 2012 By Jason McKeown In the end it has become so easy that you wondered why we’d been making such hard work of it in… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus #10: Chris Mitchell
There is a great video of Chris Mitchell on Youtube (see below) scoring a 40-yard training ground screamer against the current Torquay goalkeeper Robert Olejnik, back when the pair were playing for Falkirk. It is a superb example of the… Read More ›
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