By Jason McKeown The 25-year-old Northern Ireland international centre back, Rory McArdle, has today signed a two-year deal to join Bradford City. McArdle, who began his career at Sheffield Wednesday but only made one appearance, before two loan spells at Rochdale… Read More ›
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Exciting times? The office block deal shows business acumen from chairmen
By Jason McKeown The next time you walk past the Valley Parade office block – home of the club shop and ticket office until this summer – allow yourself a small grin. Since it was built in 2000, the two… Read More ›
Buying into next season’s vision
By Jason McKeown On consecutive days last week, the Telegraph & Argus published Bradford City stories about footballers named Andrew definitely or potentially signing up for next season. As statements of ambition and the strategy for next season go, it… Read More ›
Andrew Davies arrives – great news, but a mixed message
By Jason McKeown Following rumours swirling around Twitter last night, Bradford City has today announced the shock signing of Andrew Davies on a 12-month contract. The 27-year-old, who spent the majority of last season on loan at the Bantams and… Read More ›
The Midweek Player Focus – close season special #1: Luke O’Brien (08/09)
The Width of a Post’s regular feature ‘The Midweek Player Focus’ has taken a close season break. But to keep us going through the summer, we are going to run a spin off weekly feature looking back at past official… 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 ›
Hoping for a better outcome as Parkinson gets to work on building a new squad
By Jason McKeown This summer marks the 10th year anniversary of one of the most miserable sequence of events in the modern day history of Bradford City – and as much as we might like to believe those days are… Read More ›
Parkinson clears the decks
By Gareth Walker On Saturday morning, City released to the public the names of the players who they intended to offer new contracts to for next season, and conversely the names of the players who would be released. This, as… Read More ›
2011/12 review: what the club got right
Like sitting an English Language GCSE exam, a number of Width of a Post writers were handed a topic heading relating to the 2011/12 season and asked to run with it; taking whatever direction they choose and writing as much… 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 ›
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