Football League Two - KO 15:00
Bradford 1 (1) - 3 (0) Barnet
Next fixture
L2 (A) v Oxford United January 15 2011. K.O. 3:00PM
Current table
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/live/tables/cc_league2.html
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Fixtures
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/page/Fixtures/0,,10266,00.html
Pictures
"Last Match" Highlights on Bantams Player
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/page/player/LastMatch/0,,10266~1612005~36,00.html
Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hxz75pVwbE Taylor interview at Lincoln (courtesy City Gent)
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Match stats
Bradford: Pidgeley, Duff (Kiernan, 50 ) , Oliver, Eckersley, O'Brien, Daley, Bullock, Adeyemi (Cullen, 46 ) ,
Syers, Evans, Hanson
Subs not used: Chilaka,Doherty,Osborne,Threlfall,McLaughlan,
Goal Oliver 45
Barnet: O'Brien, Uddin, Devera, Parkes, Francomb ( Kamdjo, 85 ) , Jarvis, Southam, Marshall, Hughes, McLeod, Holmes
( Vilhete, 89 )
Subs not used: Cole, Stimson, Kelly, Taylor, Cox,
Goals: Kiernan 61 (og) Uddin 64 Holmes 67
Bookings: Bullock , Daley (Bradford)
Attendance: 10514
Referee: Dave Foster (Newcastle)
STAT ATTACK
City / Bees
6 Shots On Target 4
4 Shots Off Target 3
6 Fouls (Conceded) 11
13 Corners 9
2 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
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Saturday evening match report
CITY 1 BARNET 3
4:59pm Saturday 8th January 2011
By Simon Parker
Three goals in six madcap minutes sent shell-shocked City crashing to defeat against bottom club Barnet at Valley Parade.
It was a result that made a mockery of Monday's battling win over Bury.
Luke Oliver had given the home side the lead with the final touch of the first half as a third straight success beckoned.
But the Bantams fell apart after an own goal from sub Rob Kiernan gifted the managerless Bees a 61st-minute equaliser.
Barnet, without an away win before today, suddenly grabbed the initiative as Anwar Uddin nodded home from a corner.
And worse followed with a breakaway tap-in goal from Ricky Holmes following a City corner.
It completely knocked the stuffing out of the home side, who had begun the second half well on top after a stodgy first 45 minutes.
In that first half, Izale McLeod had missed a great chance from close range before Oliver's header broke the deadlock after David Syers had pressured debutant keeper Liam O'Brien into a mistake.
Shane Duff clipped the post soon after the re-start before being replaced by Kiernan, whose header into his own net from Glen Southam's cross then totally changed the course of the match.
Syers was thwarted as he tried to take the ball round O'Brien and there was no way back.
It was such a miserable comedown after the double victory which had kicked off the new year the week before.
While the 86 travelling Barnet fans celebrated a rare road success, City had shot themselves in the foot.
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Monday morning match report
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/8779793./
Bradford City boss Taylor driven mad by crazy six minutes
8:10am Monday 10th January 2011
By Simon Parker
Bradford City 1 Barnet 3
It will be no consolation to Peter Taylor that he avoided one 3-1 embarrassment for another.
Taylor could have been sat on the bench at Broadhall Way watching Newcastle get turfed out of the FA Cup by Stevenage.
Instead he was forced to suffer another afternoon of hari kari which City do so depressingly well from time to time.
Having turned down the Toon advances, this was a real slap in the face for the manager.
Even more so considering that neither he – nor 10,500 others in the stand – saw it coming.
That's what made the goading chants of the 86 jubilant travelling Barnet fans all the more galling.
"Can we play you every week?" they taunted as City were left numbed by six minutes of utter madness half way through the second period.
It had not been a good game. The Bantams were a mere shadow of the team that had ripped into Bury five days before.
But that's par for the course with this club. Turn over the side with the best away record one week; then collapse totally against one with the worst the next.
And yet City had emerged from a sterile first half still a goal to the good.
Despite lacking any kind of tempo or fluidity to their play, they survived a howling miss by Izale McLeod to steal in front with the last touch of added time.
David Syers worried a mistake out of rookie goalkeeper Liam O'Brien, who failed to gather a long punt from Lenny Pidgeley. Syers flipped the loose ball over the stranded stopper and Luke Oliver found the empty net to break his scoring duck for the season.
All well and good, even more so when City re-emerged with the vim and vigour that Valley Parade had been anticipating an hour before.
Corner after corner followed as Barnet struggled to escape the penalty area, let alone their own half.
Shane Duff clipped a post and Oliver bobbed a header on top of the bar and a decisive second goal – and third successive win – seemed only a matter of time.
Then everything went crazy.
Barnet won a throw-in on City's right, Glen Southam was allowed to cross unchallenged and sub Rob Kiernan – equally uninhibited – bulleted a header past his own keeper from six yards.
It was a nightmare moment for the on-loan Watford youngster, who had been outstanding against Bury in his previous outing. Perhaps Pidgeley, too, could have shouted to avert the potential disaster.
Taylor, though, thought the rot set when Syers failed to close down the Barnet midfielder in the first place.
He said: "If Dave Syers does his job right, he just gives away another throw-in or the ball goes back to the thrower. You cannot allow your man just to come off, turn and cross it like that.
"It caused indecision because of the way it was allowed to be played in so easily."
Worse, much worse, was quickly to follow.
Barnet – without an away win in ten months – suddenly sensed this was going to be the day that rotten run was put to bed.
Fair play for not letting their heads drop when City had picked their pocket with Oliver's goal against the run of play. But they must have expected a bit more home resistance once the equaliser did go in.
Instead, Anwar Uddin was left free by Oliver at the next corner and cashed in with a far-post header.
And as City hurled bodies forward for a corner of their own, McLeod led a sniperish counter-attack before teeing up Ricky Holmes for the simplest of finishes. The Bantams had been blown away.
Taylor, all gyrating arms and frustrated posturing for the first 45 minutes, looked shell-shocked on the sideline. Having stirred a 15-minute response out of his lackadaisical players at the start of the second half, that good work had come to nothing in three critical incidents. They were Barnet's only three efforts on target.
Not for the first time, Taylor had a beef about the lack of volume within the home ranks. Nobody was shouting and bawling and maybe sorting out the problems before they could get out of hand.
Duff, back in the team for the injured Steve Williams, had not had the best first half. But having found the woodwork straight after the restart, he was forced to withdraw just five minutes in after taking a bang in the back.
The one commanding voice in the side was silenced but Taylor admitted he had no choice.
"Shane's back was stiffening up and there's nothing we could have done. People would have seen he could only just about run when we took him off."
Tom Adeyemi had made way at half-time, primarily to spare his badly-bruised instep from further punishment, though he had contributed little.
So Hull youngster Mark Cullen was thrown in for his first 45 minutes and twice should have been played in for scoring chances by James Hanson and Gareth Evans.
His frustrated reaction to seeing his positioning go unrewarded was that of a striker used to better service from Championship team-mates. But he looked lively enough on first glance.
Cullen's shot on the turn late on forced a routine save from debutant O'Brien, who had also tipped over from Omar Daley and nipped the ball smartly off the toes of Syers.
But they were isolated incidents and you never felt there was any conviction for any fightback. The game was up long before.
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Peter Taylor has taken a swipe at the City fans who slated him during the Barnet loss.
Taylor is determined to pick up the pieces from Saturday's shock defeat which jolted his team's push up the table.
But while he is keen to move on and prepare for the hectic schedule coming up, the City chief revealed his anger at the way some supporters turned on him during Barnet's comeback.
Taylor, who has stood up to the Valley Parade boo boys before, was unimpressed with what he heard in his first game since turning down Newcastle's offer to become their assistant manager.
He said: "What I can't understand was our crowd's reaction. They weren't fair.
"I got a nice welcome before the game thanking me for staying at the club. Then all of a sudden, two seconds later people are shouting 'Taylor, why don't you go off to Newcastle'.
"I know people get frustrated but that doesn't mean I just have to accept it. And I wasn't happy with their response."
With rearranged games building up, this is City's last free midweek for a month. Taylor admits it could not have come at a better time to get the Barnet result out of the system.
"We are definitely going to have a good strong week on the training pitch because there were some ridiculous things that happened.
"It was an amazing day. The first half was nowhere near good enough but we went in 1-0 up.
"Then we had two tremendous chances to increase the lead and the momentum was with us. But all of a sudden, we let in two very poor goals and then another from a good counter-attack.
"We can't carry on making the type of ridiculous mistakes that we did. But I wouldn't class us as a very experienced team. We've got a lot of new players and some were in non-league last year. Maybe we have to go over things a few times.
"Thankfully for me I've dealt with all sorts of players and all levels. I know the ones who you can tell once and those who might need a bit more."
Jake Speight was back in training with City yesterday for the first time since his loan at Port Vale ended. The striker had been given last week off after a family bereavement.
And Taylor has told him that there are places up for grabs in the forward line.
He said: "It's up to Jake to come back and show us what he's got. There is an opportunity for him after Saturday because I don't think any of them did that well."
In two months with Vale, Speight started only once and came off the bench three times with a single goal.
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Barnet's stand-in manager, Paul Fairclough, stated about Saturday's game.
"Bradford are a big, strong, physical side who don't play a lot of football,
but we stayed strong, kept our composure and stuck to our plan of getting
the ball down and passing our way through the game. That was all down to the
players - they stayed strong."
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ECKERSLEY & KEIRNAN EXTEND LOAN DEALS
Richard Eckersley and Rob Kiernan have extended their deals at Bradford
City, while Jason Price has returned to Carlisle.
Burnley left-back Eckersley will stay with Bradford until February 6 after
arriving in mid-November and has made six appearances for Peter Taylor's
side.
Watford centre-half Kiernan will remain with the Bantams until January 22.
Taylor said: "I thought Rob was outstanding (against Bury) on Monday. That's
the best he has played and we'd be mad to let him go."
Meanwhile, Price has returned to Carlisle following the end of his
three-month loan spell. The 33-year-old made 11 appearances for Taylor's
side.
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NORWICH AGREE TO ADEYEMI LOAN EXTENSION
By Simon Parker (T&A)
Tom Adeyemi will spend the whole campaign at Valley Parade.
City are set to extend the youngster's loan from Norwich after receiving no
objections from the Canaries.
Peter Taylor confirmed he had got the green light after a chat with Paul
Lambert.
He said: "I've spoken to (Norwich manager) Paul and he's happy with it so
I'm going to extend the deal until the end of the season.
"Tom has been playing a little bit out of position, to be fair, and Saturday
was hard for him. He didn't get the ball enough and I wanted to bring Mark
Cullen on for the second half. Somebody had to be sacrificed.
"But Tom is absolutely fine. He has had some tremendous games and some not
so tremendous ones - but you could say the same about everybody. He is
learning the game and he will be a good player."
The 19-year-old midfielder made his 20th appearance at the weekend and has
scored twice.
Having netted City's first of the campaign at Shrewsbury on the opening day,
he also found the target in the crucial win over Barnet in October when
Taylor's position was in doubt.
Adeyemi, a Norwich lad, signed a new long-term deal with his hometown club
last year and they are keen for him to pick up senior experience with the
Bantams.
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City signed Mark Cullen on loan from Hull. He is 18yo 'promising' attacker ..... so was Moult!
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