By Jason McKeown On the surface at least, the story of Guy Branston and Bradford City was a well-versed, cliché-ridden tale that has been played out many times before at Valley Parade and will continue to reoccur in future. A… Read More ›
Peter Jackson
A good afternoon’s work for Bradford City, as Jones and Oliver sign
By Jason McKeown In what was clearly a productive day at Valley Parade, Gary Jones has signed for Bradford City on a one-year deal from Rochdale and player of the season Luke Oliver has agreed a two-year contract to remain… Read More ›
Mark Stewart leaves Bradford City
By Jason McKeown Mark Stewart has today had his contract terminated by Bradford City following an unsuccessful spell at Valley Parade. The 23-year-old striker – signed from Falkirk last summer alongside Chris Mitchell and Jack Compton – made 15 appearances… Read More ›
2011/12 review: three managers, one season
Our final Width of a Post 2011/12 season review ‘essay’ sees Mark Scully look back at how the Bantams went through three managers. With the Bradford City players away catching some sun before Parkinson gets them back for pre season… Read More ›
McCall heads to Champions League, City stand still
By Jason McKeown As the final whistle sounded at Tynecastle six days ago, Motherwell manager Stuart McCall hugged his coaching staff and players, before saluting the sizable away following. Well had just defeated Hearts 1-0 live on Sky, to place… 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 ›
The Midweek Player Focus #14: Ross Hannah
By Jason McKeown As the season approaches its climax, Ross Hannah is banging in goals to help his West Yorkshire club close in on promotion. Only the circumstances are not quite how Ross would have dreamed it a year ago,… 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 ›
Farewell Robbie
The writing has, in truth, been on the cards for a number of weeks now; but there is still something very sad about seeing Robbie Threlfall depart Valley Parade last week, after his contract was settled with the club. The… 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 ›