By Luke Lockwood Football is a fickle industry no more so than for football managers. Victory one day and you’re touted as a future England manager, but get beat the following week and you can be receiving the dreaded vote… Read More ›
League Cup
Cup Final: Doing everything we can
By Rob Craven Come 4:00pm on Sunday the City of Bradford will come together; the public, the fans, the manager and coaches, the directors, medical staff and players. We will all be gunning for the same result, giving everything to… Read More ›
Cup Final: The Swansea City perspective
By Mark Scully Swansea City became the first Welsh side to be promoted to the Premier League in 2011, and over the last two seasons have become the darling of fans up and down the British Isles for their Barcelona-esque… Read More ›
Cup Final: A fan’s guide to Wembley
By Mark Danylczuk The Stadium itself For those who have not been to Wembley, it really is a remarkable and overawing structure, particularly ‘The Arch’, towering some 133 metres above it. It can be seen for many miles across London… Read More ›
Cup Final: So long as a round ball is kicked…dreaming of immortality
By David Pendleton If Gary Jones lifts the League Cup at Wembley, he will be the first Bradford City captain to hold a major trophy in 102 long years. For the players of 2012/13 there is an opportunity to not… Read More ›
Cup Final: The last time we went to Wembley
By Gareth Walker I was 12, almost 13 years old when Bradford City last got to Wembley. It was the first time that I had been to watch them anywhere other than at Valley Parade. My memories of the Division… Read More ›
Cup Final: Special magazine charts City and Swans stories
By Mahesh Johal I am a Bradford City memorabilia hoarder. A fan since 1996, I have kept nearly all my match tickets. I own a back catalogue of replica shirts, badges, match programmes and City Gents. However, my biggest vice… Read More ›
Cup Final: Wembley is not just about the devoted
By Jason McKeown Seconds after the final whistle was blown at Villa Park on 22 January, 2013, a delirious Phil Parkinson used his on-the-pitch interview with Sky Sports to boldly declare that Bradford City fans could sell out Wembley on… Read More ›
Wembley Song Number Five: Let’s get ready for Wembley
By Jason McKeown The Bantams Banter lads – big favourites of this parish – have got in on the Bradford City Cup Final song act, with a superb adaptation of Ant and Dec’s 90s hit “Let’s get ready to rumble”…. Read More ›
This Sporting Life
By Emma Levine It was something of a cultural high when first experiencing camel wrestling in Turkey, back in 1992, the beginning of my first trip of many to Asia. In this Aegean village, on a cold January afternoon, I… Read More ›