English FA Cup - Round 1 - KO 15:00
Colchester 4 (2) - 3 (2) Bradford
Bond 7 Hanson 8
Mooney 20 Syers 32
Wilson 54 Hanson 79
Mooney 64 (p)
At Weston Homes Community Stadium on 06-11-2010
Next fixture
L2 Sat Nov 13 15:00 A Wycombe
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Fixtures
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/page/Fixtures/0,,10266,00.html
Pictures
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10266~2211161,00.html?
"Last Match" Highlights on Bantams Player
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/page/player/LastMatch/0,,10266~1612005~36,00.html
Links
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/9163879.stm?
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Match stats
Colchester: Williams, Heath, Wilson, Reid, Williams (Tierney, 49 ) , Bond, Perkins, Izzet (Wordsworth, 70 ) ,
Vincent, Mooney (Henderson, 85 ) , Odejayi
Subs not used: Beevers,Baldwin,Cousins,James,
Bradford: Pidgeley, Oliver, Rehman, O'Brien, Williams, Hendrie ( Chilaka, 78 ) , Doherty ( Evans, 69 ) , Adeyemi,
Syers, Hanson, Moult ( Price, 59 )
Subs not used: Bullock, Osborne, Threlfall, McLaughlan,
Bookings: Mooney (Colchester) Chilaka , Moult (Bradford)
Attendance: 2736
Referee: Iain Williamson (Berkshire)
STAT ATTACK
U's C's
6 Shots On Target 5
4 Shots Off Target 2
6 Fouls (Conceded) 5
8 Corners 2
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
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Saturday evening match report
Colchester 4 - 3 Bradford
David Mooney scored twice as Colchester saw off Bradford in a thrilling FA Cup first round tie.
Andrew Bond put the hosts in front from Mooney's ball before James Hanson took Louis Moult's pass and equalised.
Mooney's fine finish put the U's back in front only for David Syers' header to restore parity.
Brian Wilson's free-kick and a Mooney penalty after Luke Oliver felled Matt Heath should have sealed it, but
Hanson's header ensured a nervy finale.
Colchester United manager John Ward told BBC Essex:
"Bradford made it hard work and it's great credit to them. They've had five wins out of six and are a team in form.
"To win it and go through means I'm delighted, it's what the FA Cup is all about.
"We said if we go out then it's a year before we play in it again, so now we've got another game and that little
dream is still alive for another match at least."
Bradford City manager Peter Taylor tells BBC Radio Leeds:
"I was pleased at the way we kept going but Colchester didn't have to work too hard to get their two goals but
we've got to learn from that.
"Delighted with how hard the players worked and delighted that we've got three goals away from home but we've got
to do a little bit better than that.
"When you play away from home you've got to be a little bit more solid at the start of games."
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Monday morning match report
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/8622541./
Colchester revved up to end City's cup hopes as Hanson's impressive double isn't quite enough
6:20am Monday 8th November 2010
By Simon Parker
Colchester 4, City 3
Lee Hendrie was treading new ground in the FA Cup first round but there was an old score being settled.
Colchester fans had not forgotten his last contretemps with their captain Kem Izzet.
Hendrie, then with Stoke, had been involved in a run-in with Izzet and retorted with a jibe about washing his
Ferrari.
Four years and a new stadium later, the locals still remembered as if it was yesterday.
The only noise generated by the smattering of home fans was all directed Hendrie's way.
Jeered whenever he touched the ball, his substitution 12 minutes from time was greeted with a cheer as loud as for
any of the goals.
To add insult to injury, Hendrie then walked into an animated discussion with his manager over the poor arrangement
of the City wall for Colchester's third.
So the second round will remain unknown territory for the one member of the squad to have played in a Wembley
final.
Saturday's game went with the formbook – but only just. If there are acceptable ways of losing a cup tie, this was
it.
City failed to celebrate the centenary of their FA Cup triumph with a run but at least they bowed out for another
year with heads held high.
Going forward, they gave Colchester plenty to chew on. James Hanson led the line superbly and deserved both his
goals.
Unfortunately City never got to grips with Colchester battering ram Kayode Odejayi, a striker always assured of a
place in FA Cup folklore after scoring the Barnsley goal that dumped Chelsea out a couple of years back.
Powerful and strong, he won everything against a defence that looked surprisingly jittery. City's back four were a
shadow of the unit that did such a great job shackling Bury four days before.
Like a nightclub bouncer, Odejayi stamped his authority from the start and every home attack screamed danger.
Steve Williams, perhaps distracted by talk of Leicester interest, could not handle him. Zesh Rehman, such a
consistent performer in recent clean sheets, had a similar off day at right back.
The uncertainty was punished straight away. Odejayi flicked on a long ball, David Mooney sucked in the defenders
and Andy Bond had the easiest of finishes.
Peter Taylor's animated antics on the touchline showed what he thought. Yet City were straight back into it.
Louis Moult, who had a feisty afternoon with a tendency to fall over, demonstrated his better side by setting up
strike partner Hanson to drill the leveller.
That settled the visitors down at one end. Sadly, the defensive capers did not improve. Colchester's second was
another embarrassment for the backline.
Again an Odejayi header opened the door and nobody reacted. Williams, Rehman and Lenny Pidgeley all seemed
transfixed by the loose ball bouncing towards the byline. Mooney seized on the lack of response and looped it over
the keeper.
City continued to gift free headers to Odejayi and another goal beckoned. Instead, it was Taylor's troops that were
soon celebrating again.
Tom Adeyemi was pushed just inside the Colchester half. Luke O'Brien's delivery was right on the money – though
keeper Ben Williams should have been more positive – and David Syers stuck his head in where it hurts to nod home.
It was the midfielder's fifth goal of the term as he fast becomes the darling of the fans.
Moult got involved in a couple of spats with home players. City were showing the stomach for a fight.
There was no talk of Ferraris at half-time as nothing separated the sides. But Colchester, no doubt revved up by
some strong words from boss John Ward, reappeared much sharper.
There was an added spring in their play as Ashley Vincent straight away nutmegged O'Brien to carve out a good
chance.
City were getting pegged back and Tommy Doherty was pulled up for a nudge on Izzet, allowing Brian Wilson to drive
the low free-kick round the wall from 20 yards.
He squeezed the shot between the left of the three men protecting Pidgeley's goal and the near post – the only gap
it could have gone.
Taylor and assistant Junior Lewis had spotted the indecision while the wall was forming. City did not know whether
he would shoot or cross; so instead of deciding to twist or stick, they did neither and left a very presentable
target.
More chances followed and Pidgeley redeemed himself with a great block from Odejayi. But referee Iain Williamson
had clamped down on soft fouls all afternoon and pointed to the spot when Luke Oliver made the slightest contact in
the back of former Leeds centre half Matt Heath.
Mooney's penalty gave the League One side breathing space and Hendrie soon departed to a mocking chorus of "What's
the score?"
But City were not done yet and Hanson climbed to convert Rehman's cross and set up an anxious finish for the hosts.
Comeback hopes were dashed when Williams limped off with a groin injury but the ten men still had a couple of
sniffs in the four minutes of stoppage time.
Taylor was concerned with the defensive frailty but there were plenty of positives in defeat.
He admitted: "I didn't like us at the start. Too many of them weren't on the front foot.
"Their forwards were getting in areas and we weren't making quick enough decisions to sort the problem out. That's
not like us and we've got to do it consistently.
"They were all very poor goals and defensively we've got to tighten up. But a lot of teams wouldn't have come back
after the way we conceded. I thought the lads kept going."
Confidence should not be an issue for the bigger league challenges ahead.
Attendance: 2,736
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'Crazy' internet moaners are not proper fans, says City boss
7:50am Monday 8th November 2010
By Simon Parker
Peter Taylor today slammed messageboard moaners spreading false rumours about his City players and told them: Get a
life.
Taylor was furious to read website comments claiming that James Hanson had been left out at Bury because he was
seen out drinking.
Hanson returned to the starting line-up to score twice in the 4-3 FA Cup defeat at Colchester.
Taylor praised the big striker – and then laid into the mischief-makers on the internet.
He blasted: "People have got to go and get lives. It's absolutely crazy.
"I'm not impressed with certain fans who go on the website and make comments that he didn't play against Bury
because he'd been drinking. That's the biggest load of rubbish.
"I picked Jason Price and Omar Daley for that game because that's what we wanted against two centre halves who
don't like playing against that type of player.
"I don't go on these websites but somebody drew my attention to this one. Because I've had to look at it, I've read
certain other things.
"I'm not convinced these people are Bradford City fans. They will just drive players away.
"They can't be proper fans to talk about things like that. It's unbelievable, really."
Hanson led the line superbly for City as they put up a brave fight against the League One high-fliers on Saturday.
"James scored two fantastic goals and I thought he was a really good centre forward all afternoon," said Taylor.
"Maybe because he didn't play Tuesday night, he was fresher than others. All of a sudden, he's getting there.
"You have to be patient. I'd love to play the same team every week and not worry but that's not the case and you
have to be realistic."
Steve Williams injured his groin and limped off in the closing stages.
Taylor said: "Hopefully it was just a spasm as he went to kick a long ball. It might be a little bit of tiredness
after playing two hard games but it's not looking great."
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Bradford City facing defensive shortage (BBC)
Bradford City manager Peter Taylor says that the Bantams could dip into the loan market after an injury to defender
Steve Williams.
Williams suffered a hamstring strain in Saturday's 4-3 FA Cup defeat by Colchester, leaving City with just two fit
centre-backs.
Taylor told BBC Radio Leeds: "We might have to look at another loanee, but will wait on see how Steve is.
"We only have Zesh Rehman and Luke Oliver as centre-backs now."
Fellow centre-half Shane Duff remains on the sidelines, while Oliver Gill and Reece Brown, who were on loan at
Valley Parade, have now returned to Manchester United.
Meanwhile, winger Omar Daly is an early doubt for next Saturday's League Two trip to Wycombe with the hamstring
problem that kept him out of the defeat at Colchester.
"He is a doubt for next week, which is a blow for us," said Taylor. "We just have to be patient with him because he
keeps feeling it and we know it could go badly, which would put him out for a long time.
"Because he has missed a lot of football we have to be careful not to rush him back to playing 90 minutes of
football too many times. We need to make sure he is OK."
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http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/Bradford-City-Lenny-Pidgeley-interview.6617157.jp?
Bradford City: Lenny Pidgeley interview
Published Date: 08 November 2010
Lenny Pidgeley certainly had to get his skates on when Bradford City got in touch – but his timing ever since has
been pretty impeccable.
The former Chelsea, Millwall and Carlisle United keeper was kicking his heels just under a fortnight ago ahead of
Valley Parade chief Peter
Taylor getting in touch – which prompted him to hot-foot it up to Yorkshire from his London base to play for City's
reserves the very next day.
After impressing, the 26-year-old soon put pen to paper on a short-term deal before being entrusted with first-team
keeping duties for City's home clash with Oxford United last Saturday.
Pidgeley's whirlwind week ended with him keeping a clean sheet as the
Bantams recorded their biggest win in more than two-and-a-half years in a 5-0 drubbing of the U's and the dream
continued on Tuesday when he recorded another shut-out as his new club claimed an outstanding 1-0 Roses victory at
in-form promotion-chasers Bury.
Having suddenly injected some momentum into a hitherto stuttering campaign, the claret-and-amber future suddenly
looks a whole lot brighter.
And Pidgeley – after a pretty abject 2010 – is eager to finish the calendar year with a bang, while boosting his
own cause in the process.
The Londoner, a free agent since leaving former club Carlisle in the summer after featuring just twice for the
Cumbrians this year after being first choice in the first half of 2009-10, said: "I've signed until January 1 and
my short-term goal is to play as many games as I can between now and then.
"I'm 26 now and I just want to be playing matches.
"Obviously, if I do well and the team does, everything else will look after itself."
He added: "Peter Taylor only called on the Monday (last week) and told me there was a reserve team game on the
Tuesday and asked if I fancied coming up and playing.
"Obviously, I knew what a big club Bradford are and the big fan-base they have got. I think I've played against
them for three different
clubs and I jumped at the opportunity.
"To be handed my first-team debut straightaway was fantastic. The lads said he normally names the team on Fridays
and does the set-plays and set-pieces. But he didn't name the team until I got to the ground on Saturday.
"I had to prepare as if I was playing, but about an hour and a half before, he told me I was starting. It was a
pleasant surprise.
"For the first game, you want to get off to a good start. You want to make a first impression; particularly at home
in front of 11,000 people.
"The first half was quite a tight affair and pleasing to get in at half-time with a clean sheet. But in the second
half, we took the game to them and once we got a couple of goals, it made my job a lot easier.
"The confidence is now flowing and we've shown we've got some good players. I've actually been surprised by the
really high standards in training and what we turned in during the second half against Oxford was what I'd been
seeing all week."
Pidgeley may well be winning friends and influencing people at Valley Parade, but he could have easily have been
plying his trade at a League Two rival, who got in touch towards the end of last month, only for City to
effectively gazump them.
For his part, Pidgeley – who made two senior appearances for Chelsea, his debut coming in front of 52,000 at St
James' Park at the end of the 2005-06 season when Jose Mourinho's expensively-assembled Blues lifted the title – is
just glad to be back doing his day job.
The novelty of a summer off has long worn off, while a few other career opportunities fell by the wayside for the
Twickenham-born stopper during the close-season.
He said: "After leaving Carlisle, I went back to London where I have a young daughter and over the summer it was
nice to spend a little bit of time with the family. But I'd been out of contract for three months and was itching
to get back into it.
"To be honest, I had a few options in the summer but things didn't go how I planned.
"I found myself out of contract for a few months and actually had another option the week before I came to Bradford
at another club in League Two who wanted me to go down, but I ended up taking this option.
"So far, I think it's been the right decision."
The Londoner is at least not short of one familiar face at Valley Parade in the shape of loan striker Jason Price,
with the pair having been "stalking" each other in a footballing sense in the past few seasons.
An ebullient voice in the dressing room Price – who joined from Greg Abbott's Carlisle last month – has quickly
settled in at City, with Pidgeley now hoping to do the same and the early signs are good.
And if he can do as capable a job as another former Stamford Bridge man in Rhys Evans managed at City in 2008-09 –
when he was a virtual ever-present – he will go a long way towards getting his career back on track.
On linking up again with Price, Pidgeley added: "I was at Carlisle last year with Pricey and with him at Millwall
the year before. This is our third club together in a row!
"I'll have to look into that one; three different clubs in three different seasons together...it's getting weird
now, following each other around!"
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American sides battling with Bantams for Hendrie signature
7:00am Tuesday 9th November 2010
By Simon Parker
Lee Hendrie has dropped a broad hint that he will snub American interest to stick at Valley Parade.
The City midfielder's short-term deal runs out on January 4 and both San Jose Earthquakes and Portland Timbers are keen to take him to the MLS.
Hendrie has been over to San Jose to assess the standard but admits he is feeling a strong pull towards the Bantams.
While his future remains undecided, the 33-year-old has certainly indicated that the challenge of winning promotion is an attractive one.
He said: "I'm happy here and enjoying myself. At the moment I've just got to wait and see what the gaffer's got to say but hopefully we can get something sorted out.
"Speaking to my agent, I've said that this team has got a real chance of going up. We've got to believe we can do that.
"I'm loving it here. All the lads are good and the fans and staff have been superb with me."
Hendrie's dad Paul played for Portland in the NASL in 1976. The current side will rejoin the MLS next season and have already signed former Bantams midfielder Eddie Johnson.
Hendrie added: "I saw a few of the (San Jose) games when I went over before and it's a different standard completely.
"Portland are looking to rebuild their team and asked me last week if I'd be interested.
"But it's been good for me at Bradford and I'm still trying to get back to my best. To be honest, there's only been one game when I've felt like I'm getting back to my old ways.
"We are turning the corner. The gaffer called it when he said it was only a matter of time before we gave teams a real hiding.
"Oxford showed that and even the Cheltenham game before when we could have had five or six.
"You can see why the gaffer gets frustrated because he knows he's got a great squad. You see them play in training and it's just a case of taking that on to the pitch.
"If we can keep that going, then you're going to be pushing for promotion."
Taylor would love Hendrie to stay and believes he can become an even more prominent figure the more he plays.
The Bantams chief said: "I think the only frustration with Lee is the little strain he's had, which meant he was only going to play 75 minutes maximum against Colchester on Saturday.
"There's definitely more to come from him if he can stay fit, train every day and be able to play in every game. Once he does that he'll get even better.
"I'm sure he is looking at our situation and is determined to be a success here.
"I'm sure he would prefer that rather than going to America."
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