Read this article online
http://texasbantam.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/46810838356/
===========================
Signings, Loans and Injuries
Oliver McBurnie has been promoted to the senior squad
Injuries
Hanson, hand fracture
Yeates, knee, expected to be available for selection
Loan rumour
Haris Vuckic -
===========================
General Links
Current table
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/fixtures-results/league-table/
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/league-one/table
http://m.espn.go.com/soccer/standings?leagueTag=ENG.3&lang=EN&wjb=
Fixtures
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/
http://m.espn.go.com/soccer/scoreboard?leagueTag=ENG.3&lang=EN
The "Social media Corner"
http://paper.li/f-1315926867
http://www.bradfordcity.tv/
Head to Head stats
http://www.11v11.com/teams/bradford-city/tab/opposingTeams
http://www.statto.com/football/teams/bradford-city/
T&A Reports & Pictures
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/sportbcfcmatch/
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/sport_bantams_pics2012/
Bantams Player (subscription required)
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/commercial/Bantams-player/
BBC headlines and highlights (video may be uk only)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/bradford-city
Pulse audio (last match highlights, post match interviews)
http://www.pulse.co.uk/on-air/pulse-sport/
Match stats
http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=234#teamTabs=results
===========================
Game links
Preview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23644906
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10615600.Buzzing_Bradford_City_told_to_hit_same_heights/
Goals
Live Blog
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10619378.Live_blog__Port_Vale_v_Bantams/
===========================
When the dust settled - match report
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10619783.Bradford_City_in_Burslem_action_replay_as_Vale_prevail
Bradford City in Burslem action replay as Vale prevail
7:40am Monday 19th August 2013
By Simon Parker
Port Vale 2 Bradford City 1
With his ten-hole Doc Martens, braces and hair cropped to the bone, the Vale fan looked like a menacing throwback to a bygone era.
Trips to Burslem can often feel like stepping back in time – and Saturday was certainly a frustrating case of déjà vu for City.
For the fourth time in five years, they trailed away from this unappealing corner of Stoke on the wrong end of a single-goal league defeat.
Once more there was that familiar feeling of "so near but so far" – beaten by an out-of-character blunder from James Meredith and a deflection.
City hadn't played particularly well but Phil Parkinson could still offer a case that they had the opportunities to have salvaged something.
So a damp and overcast Vale Park became the morning after the Carlisle night before. While nobody read too much into last week's romp – Coventry's efforts at Brunton Park this weekend underlined that – it still came as a slap in the face.
For Parkinson and his team, this is all part of the learning process as they adjust to life on the next tier. But you could still see the irritation etched on the manager's face afterwards.
Vale away is never a glamorous stop on the journey but he shouldn't have needed to remind the players that they were booking in for an afternoon at the university of hard knocks.
He knew what to expect – so did they. The point had been stressed in the build-up to expect a backlash from a Vale side wounded by a tongue-lashing from their own boss following a tepid display at Colchester.
Yet after a bright – and misleading – start, City soon found themselves hustled out of their game by opponents who were in their faces at every turn.
That pressing is a trademark of a Micky Adams side; hardly something that should have caught the Bantams on the hop.
But after an early seemingly goal-bound bullet from Nathan Doyle was deflected over, City spent most of the first half on the back foot.
Doyle was up for the fight and centre halves Andrew Davies and Rory McArdle were just as unflinching. But others around them had a rare off day.
The attacking edge was missing from City's game, blunted by the hand injury to James Hanson which very noticeably played on his mind. He won less than half the aerial challenges with marker Chris Robertson – unheard of for the big man.
The midfield, with Doyle the exception, were second best and Vale's wingers far more productive than their counterparts.
And whatever your opinion of Lee Hughes – and the baying away end left nobody in any doubt with their verdict – the former West Brom striker can still play.
His battle with McArdle was constant and reached a flashpoint midway through the first half when he accused the defender of going in late on the halfway line. Players pushed and shoved in the ensuing melee and so did the coaching staff as Parkinson pressed foreheads with Vale coach Rob Page.
Referee Carl Boyeson, normally never one backward at coming forward with cards, surprisingly chose to do nothing. He later annoyed the away end by being equally unmoved when Davies appeared to be wrestled to the floor at a corner.
For all the provocation, McArdle stuck to his task admirably. But Hughes still got his goal thanks to a catastrophic error from Meredith.
City appeared to have weathered any storm as half-time approached.
Tom Pope, still without a goal this season after leading the country last time, twice fluffed headers. The second was a free one he should have buried with his eyes shut and the striker was left pounding the ground with an angry fist.
Jon McLaughlin had thwarted Vale with a superb double save, diving to his left to block a Hughes volley and then clambering up in time to deny Kaid Mohamed's follow-up.
But City's resistance was broken in a self-inflicted manner three minutes from the interval.
Meredith turned to try a blind backpass, scuffed it badly and Hughes beat Pope to the interception, cutting wide of McLaughlin to have his revenge for the taunting fans behind the goal.
Parkinson called for a strong response when City attacked their own end and got it. By the hour, the visitors were back on level terms.
Inevitably it was Wells on the scoresheet to keep up his 100 per cent run for the season. It was a good way to mark his 50th league start for the club – and the first time he had netted against Vale in five attempts.
His own skill conjured the chance, cleverly flicking the ball over Adam Yeates to burst into the box. Keeper Chris Neal shovelled away his shot but Garry Thompson drilled it straight back and the Bermudian was lurking to apply the final touch.
The tide seemed to have turned and now it was City in search of the go-ahead goal as Wells met a Gary Jones cross but nodded over at the near post.
But no sooner were the visitors asking the questions than Vale were back in front.
It came from a corner after a cross had flicked off McArdle and landed on the roof of his own net. The set-piece dropped to Hughes, who laid it back for Doug Loft to let fly from 20 yards.
Although well struck, McLaughlin looked to have it covered until the shot took a fatal deflection off Jones and diverted into the top corner.
City were required to rescue a second deficit, just as they had done at Ashton Gate on the opening day.
Kyel Reid and Raffaele De Vita were thrown on and both subs could have been the hero. The Italian saw two efforts blocked by desperate penalty-area smothering while Reid, as enigmatic as ever, missed the far post by inches with a bobble from a defender.
More corners followed in the five minutes of added time but the disappointing delivery summed up the off-key display.
A traffic jam from hell clogging up the M6 on the way home won't have improved the mood. It had been another unpleasant experience in the Vale of gloom.
===========================
City legend Stuart McCall recalls Blades anguish
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10620756.Bradford_City_legend_McCall_recalls_Blades_anguish/
Wells just one goal from becoming a Bradford City gr-eight
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10621007.Wells_just_one_goal_from_becoming_a_Bradford_City_gr_eight/
'Hans' Hanson / Yeatesy / Oli/Louie and Luke Oliver info
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10622672.Broken_hand_leaves_Bradford_City_striker_struggling_to_face_Blades/
Class of 1999 to return
Sunday 15 September 2013 - kick off 3:00pm.
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/news/article/one-in-a-million-1006175.aspx
===========================
CITY CONFIRM £1.4m LINDLEY CATERING DEAL
By Ian McPherson (Sportmedia.com)
Bradford City have agreed a five-year catering contract with Lindley Venue
Catering (LVC).
The agreement, which is worth £1.4 million in total, will see Lindley Venue
Catering manage all public match day catering at Bradford's 25,000-seater
Coral Windows Stadium. A range of the firm's retail concepts – including
Franks' Original New York Streetdogs, The Pie Factory and Flaming Good
Burger – will be installed at the ground as part of the deal.
LVC, the specialist sports catering division of The Lindley Group, has
similar catering deals with fellow English clubs Rotherham FC, Doncaster
Rovers FC and Sheffield Wednesday FC.
David Baldwin, the director of operations at Bradford City FC, said: "The
club's promotion to League 1 has provided us with an ideal opportunity to
review our catering services and we believe Lindley Venue Catering is best
placed to help us to improve and develop the food offering for our fans and
away visitors on match days."
Jonathan Davies, The Lindley Group's sales and marketing director, added:
"As well as introducing new concepts and initiatives at the ground on match
days, we will also be working with the team at Bradford City AFC to engage
more with fans and encourage them to use the new facilities and support
their club even further with a percentage of the returns from catering being
reinvested into the club."
===========================
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10619353.It_s_Hartlepool_again_for_Bradford_City/
It's Hartlepool again for Bradford City
City will travel to Colin Cooper's Hartlepool in the first round of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
It will be a familiar trip for the Bantams - who have recently been there twice before in the competition. Last season, they won a second-round tie on penalties after the game finished goalless. City were eventually knocked out in the area semi-finals by Crewe.
As well as manager Cooper, Pools boast former Bantams Jack Compton and Nialle Rodney in their ranks.
The tie will take place in the first week of September.
===========================
Newcastle starlet training with City
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10624867.Newcastle_starlet_training_with_Bradford_City/
---
Excited by news on the Guardian´s transfer blog: ´One of the unluckiest
players at SJP has been Haris Vuckic, the young Slovenian creative
midfielder has been beset by a series of nasty injuries. Newly recovered
from a cruciate repair he is joining League One Bradford on loan in a bid
to kick-start his once highly promising career.´
A good video clip compilation of his most recent contributions for N´castle
can be found here:
http://www.toonforum.co.uk/blog/haris-vuckic-what-role-does-he-have-this-season/
===========================
http://texasbantam.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/46810838356/
===========================
Signings, Loans and Injuries
Oliver McBurnie has been promoted to the senior squad
Injuries
Hanson, hand fracture
Yeates, knee, expected to be available for selection
Loan rumour
Haris Vuckic -
===========================
General Links
Current table
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/fixtures-results/league-table/
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/league-one/table
http://m.espn.go.com/soccer/standings?leagueTag=ENG.3&lang=EN&wjb=
Fixtures
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/
http://m.espn.go.com/soccer/scoreboard?leagueTag=ENG.3&lang=EN
The "Social media Corner"
http://paper.li/f-1315926867
http://www.bradfordcity.tv/
Head to Head stats
http://www.11v11.com/teams/bradford-city/tab/opposingTeams
http://www.statto.com/football/teams/bradford-city/
T&A Reports & Pictures
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/sportbcfcmatch/
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/sport_bantams_pics2012/
Bantams Player (subscription required)
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/commercial/Bantams-player/
BBC headlines and highlights (video may be uk only)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/bradford-city
Pulse audio (last match highlights, post match interviews)
http://www.pulse.co.uk/on-air/pulse-sport/
Match stats
http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=234#teamTabs=results
===========================
Game links
Preview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23644906
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10615600.Buzzing_Bradford_City_told_to_hit_same_heights/
Goals
Live Blog
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10619378.Live_blog__Port_Vale_v_Bantams/
===========================
When the dust settled - match report
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10619783.Bradford_City_in_Burslem_action_replay_as_Vale_prevail
Bradford City in Burslem action replay as Vale prevail
7:40am Monday 19th August 2013
By Simon Parker
Port Vale 2 Bradford City 1
With his ten-hole Doc Martens, braces and hair cropped to the bone, the Vale fan looked like a menacing throwback to a bygone era.
Trips to Burslem can often feel like stepping back in time – and Saturday was certainly a frustrating case of déjà vu for City.
For the fourth time in five years, they trailed away from this unappealing corner of Stoke on the wrong end of a single-goal league defeat.
Once more there was that familiar feeling of "so near but so far" – beaten by an out-of-character blunder from James Meredith and a deflection.
City hadn't played particularly well but Phil Parkinson could still offer a case that they had the opportunities to have salvaged something.
So a damp and overcast Vale Park became the morning after the Carlisle night before. While nobody read too much into last week's romp – Coventry's efforts at Brunton Park this weekend underlined that – it still came as a slap in the face.
For Parkinson and his team, this is all part of the learning process as they adjust to life on the next tier. But you could still see the irritation etched on the manager's face afterwards.
Vale away is never a glamorous stop on the journey but he shouldn't have needed to remind the players that they were booking in for an afternoon at the university of hard knocks.
He knew what to expect – so did they. The point had been stressed in the build-up to expect a backlash from a Vale side wounded by a tongue-lashing from their own boss following a tepid display at Colchester.
Yet after a bright – and misleading – start, City soon found themselves hustled out of their game by opponents who were in their faces at every turn.
That pressing is a trademark of a Micky Adams side; hardly something that should have caught the Bantams on the hop.
But after an early seemingly goal-bound bullet from Nathan Doyle was deflected over, City spent most of the first half on the back foot.
Doyle was up for the fight and centre halves Andrew Davies and Rory McArdle were just as unflinching. But others around them had a rare off day.
The attacking edge was missing from City's game, blunted by the hand injury to James Hanson which very noticeably played on his mind. He won less than half the aerial challenges with marker Chris Robertson – unheard of for the big man.
The midfield, with Doyle the exception, were second best and Vale's wingers far more productive than their counterparts.
And whatever your opinion of Lee Hughes – and the baying away end left nobody in any doubt with their verdict – the former West Brom striker can still play.
His battle with McArdle was constant and reached a flashpoint midway through the first half when he accused the defender of going in late on the halfway line. Players pushed and shoved in the ensuing melee and so did the coaching staff as Parkinson pressed foreheads with Vale coach Rob Page.
Referee Carl Boyeson, normally never one backward at coming forward with cards, surprisingly chose to do nothing. He later annoyed the away end by being equally unmoved when Davies appeared to be wrestled to the floor at a corner.
For all the provocation, McArdle stuck to his task admirably. But Hughes still got his goal thanks to a catastrophic error from Meredith.
City appeared to have weathered any storm as half-time approached.
Tom Pope, still without a goal this season after leading the country last time, twice fluffed headers. The second was a free one he should have buried with his eyes shut and the striker was left pounding the ground with an angry fist.
Jon McLaughlin had thwarted Vale with a superb double save, diving to his left to block a Hughes volley and then clambering up in time to deny Kaid Mohamed's follow-up.
But City's resistance was broken in a self-inflicted manner three minutes from the interval.
Meredith turned to try a blind backpass, scuffed it badly and Hughes beat Pope to the interception, cutting wide of McLaughlin to have his revenge for the taunting fans behind the goal.
Parkinson called for a strong response when City attacked their own end and got it. By the hour, the visitors were back on level terms.
Inevitably it was Wells on the scoresheet to keep up his 100 per cent run for the season. It was a good way to mark his 50th league start for the club – and the first time he had netted against Vale in five attempts.
His own skill conjured the chance, cleverly flicking the ball over Adam Yeates to burst into the box. Keeper Chris Neal shovelled away his shot but Garry Thompson drilled it straight back and the Bermudian was lurking to apply the final touch.
The tide seemed to have turned and now it was City in search of the go-ahead goal as Wells met a Gary Jones cross but nodded over at the near post.
But no sooner were the visitors asking the questions than Vale were back in front.
It came from a corner after a cross had flicked off McArdle and landed on the roof of his own net. The set-piece dropped to Hughes, who laid it back for Doug Loft to let fly from 20 yards.
Although well struck, McLaughlin looked to have it covered until the shot took a fatal deflection off Jones and diverted into the top corner.
City were required to rescue a second deficit, just as they had done at Ashton Gate on the opening day.
Kyel Reid and Raffaele De Vita were thrown on and both subs could have been the hero. The Italian saw two efforts blocked by desperate penalty-area smothering while Reid, as enigmatic as ever, missed the far post by inches with a bobble from a defender.
More corners followed in the five minutes of added time but the disappointing delivery summed up the off-key display.
A traffic jam from hell clogging up the M6 on the way home won't have improved the mood. It had been another unpleasant experience in the Vale of gloom.
===========================
City legend Stuart McCall recalls Blades anguish
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10620756.Bradford_City_legend_McCall_recalls_Blades_anguish/
Wells just one goal from becoming a Bradford City gr-eight
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10621007.Wells_just_one_goal_from_becoming_a_Bradford_City_gr_eight/
'Hans' Hanson / Yeatesy / Oli/Louie and Luke Oliver info
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10622672.Broken_hand_leaves_Bradford_City_striker_struggling_to_face_Blades/
Class of 1999 to return
Sunday 15 September 2013 - kick off 3:00pm.
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/news/article/one-in-a-million-1006175.aspx
===========================
CITY CONFIRM £1.4m LINDLEY CATERING DEAL
By Ian McPherson (Sportmedia.com)
Bradford City have agreed a five-year catering contract with Lindley Venue
Catering (LVC).
The agreement, which is worth £1.4 million in total, will see Lindley Venue
Catering manage all public match day catering at Bradford's 25,000-seater
Coral Windows Stadium. A range of the firm's retail concepts – including
Franks' Original New York Streetdogs, The Pie Factory and Flaming Good
Burger – will be installed at the ground as part of the deal.
LVC, the specialist sports catering division of The Lindley Group, has
similar catering deals with fellow English clubs Rotherham FC, Doncaster
Rovers FC and Sheffield Wednesday FC.
David Baldwin, the director of operations at Bradford City FC, said: "The
club's promotion to League 1 has provided us with an ideal opportunity to
review our catering services and we believe Lindley Venue Catering is best
placed to help us to improve and develop the food offering for our fans and
away visitors on match days."
Jonathan Davies, The Lindley Group's sales and marketing director, added:
"As well as introducing new concepts and initiatives at the ground on match
days, we will also be working with the team at Bradford City AFC to engage
more with fans and encourage them to use the new facilities and support
their club even further with a percentage of the returns from catering being
reinvested into the club."
===========================
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10619353.It_s_Hartlepool_again_for_Bradford_City/
It's Hartlepool again for Bradford City
City will travel to Colin Cooper's Hartlepool in the first round of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
It will be a familiar trip for the Bantams - who have recently been there twice before in the competition. Last season, they won a second-round tie on penalties after the game finished goalless. City were eventually knocked out in the area semi-finals by Crewe.
As well as manager Cooper, Pools boast former Bantams Jack Compton and Nialle Rodney in their ranks.
The tie will take place in the first week of September.
===========================
Newcastle starlet training with City
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10624867.Newcastle_starlet_training_with_Bradford_City/
---
Excited by news on the Guardian´s transfer blog: ´One of the unluckiest
players at SJP has been Haris Vuckic, the young Slovenian creative
midfielder has been beset by a series of nasty injuries. Newly recovered
from a cruciate repair he is joining League One Bradford on loan in a bid
to kick-start his once highly promising career.´
A good video clip compilation of his most recent contributions for N´castle
can be found here:
http://www.toonforum.co.uk/blog/haris-vuckic-what-role-does-he-have-this-season/
===========================
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Greg Shepherd
greg.shepherd@eXpRealty.com
(214) 810-2232
(888) 519-7431 x10
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