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===========================
Signings, Loans and Injuries
Loan extension
Connor Ripley, extended to Jan 2014
Injuries
===========================
General Links
Current table
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/fixtures-results/league-table/
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Fixtures
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The "Social media Corner"
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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/
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BBC headlines and highlights (video may be uk only)
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Pulse audio (last match highlights, post match interviews)
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Match stats
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Sing along
http://terracechants.me.uk/club/chants/Bradford+City/oldest/3/ (warning expletives involved)
2013 suite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYVaty8hdHg
===========================
Preview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23822861
Game links
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Goals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWyf-shjGU&feature=youtu.be
Live Blog
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10646342.Live_blog__Stevenage_v_Bradford_City/
===========================
Final whistle - match report
Bradford City respond well to 'hairdryer' treatment
6:10am Monday 2nd September 2013
By Simon Parker
Stevenage 1, City 1
The whistle had barely left the referee's lips before Steve Parkin appeared on the edge of the pitch jabbing his thumb towards the dressing rooms.
For the City players, the implication of this gesture was crystal clear. "Oi, you lot! Get in here. Now."
There was no need to second guess what was awaiting the team from their half-time "debriefing".
Safe to say, the Stevenage ground staff probably need to pick up some new Dulux this week to replace the paint that had peeled from the walls of the visiting room.
It's not often these days that City come off second best. So that opening 45 minutes came as a nasty shock to the system.
No wonder Parkin and Phil Parkinson could not get the team back inside quick enough. If the players thought it was hot pitchside – and the weather had a pre-season feel to it – that was nothing compared with the temperature awaiting them behind the closed door.
Parkinson has not had many occasions when he has needed to raise his voice of late. He usually keeps his observations calm and calculated.
On Saturday, harsh words needed to be said – and how they found the target. The City that emerged at 4pm were a complete contrast to the one that had kicked off an hour before.
The "passive" approach of the first half, as the manager called it, was replaced by the steely determination that we have grown to expect. Giving up is not in their dictionary.
Parkinson admitted: "Stevenage is a difficult place to come. They put you under a lot of pressure and make it a very physical game.
"You have to stand up and be counted and I don't think we did that to the best of our ability in the first half. We were lacklustre.
"But what a terrific reaction. We showed a different side to us having to respond like that and we did.
"I've been here before and seen teams get rolled over three or four nil if they aren't mentally and physically right. But in the second half we went on the front foot, closed down a lot better and were very competitive."
Those battling qualities and refusal to be bullied should have been admired in the home dugout. Graham Westley, Stevenage's 'Marmite' manager, has built his club to over-achieve on similar rules of engagement.
But the man whose programme notes had centred on the ground-breaking theory "score the goals, keep a clean sheet, three points" was more bothered about having a pop at the referee.
True, Gary Sutton's performance was pretty awful. We had been spoiled by Chris Foy the previous weekend.
And had the Nathan Doyle incident – when the midfielder appeared to have handled as he blocked a shot on the line – occurred at the other end, I'm sure Parkinson would have had a similar beef – if not for quite as long.
But Westley's insistence on blaming just about everything on the official – he also wanted Stephen Darby sent off for a mistimed tackle on the touchline – was tiresome and glossed over the away side's tenacity at rescuing what appeared to be a lost cause.
Certainly Stevenage's midweek exertions at taking Everton to extra time may have caught up with them in the late afternoon sunshine. But take nothing away from the City fightback.
And if this was a good point to take back north, it was a significant afternoon for their goal-scorer.
All eyes have been fixed on Nahki Wells and the list of scouts at the Lamex Stadium was a long one. Newcastle, Huddersfield and Brighton were among the names – no prizes for guessing the prime reason for their trip.
Wells, for once, struck out and missed the opportunity to take sole ownership of the club record for scoring in most games on the trot.
It was not for a lack of trying – particularly shots of the overhead variety – but he squandered the golden chance to make it nine in a row when he spooned over from Kyel Reid's inviting cross in the first half.
Instead it was Reid who seized the spotlight and showed that he is not prepared to accept being the odd man out from Wembley.
Few, if any, promoted sides keep their teams intact to the same extent as City; two or three changes maybe – but just one from the 11 that dismantled Northampton in May?
Reid had been that solitary omission until the weekend. It was so surprising to see a new name on the team sheet, the first one this season in the league, that we had to check it had not been mistyped.
But Parkinson felt Reid had shown enough on the training pitch to justify his selection. He was in on merit.
The left winger can excite and infuriate in equal measure but this time he relished the stage. His stunning free-kick equaliser was true reward for an afternoon of positive intent and attacking menace.
Not that we saw too much of that from the blue shirts in a first half that Stevenage dominated.
With their strikers dropping off into holes, the home movement confused City at times and a defensive rearguard action was required.
In trying a diving block from one Freeman effort, Gary Jones used a hand and Greg Tansey beat Jon McLaughlin from the penalty spot.
There were other scares but the biggest came on the half-hour mark as Doyle smuggled the ball away from inside the right post. "Hands," screamed Westley and his cohorts; nothing doing was Sutton's response with a shake of the head.
Westley later argued that at 2-0 against ten men, it would have been game over. Maybe, on this occasion, City got a big break.
Wells missed at the other end and Reid drove over the bar but the half-time gee-up was much needed – and City were back level within three minutes of the restart.
Wells was shoved in the back – a soft foul but a clear one – and the 25-yard free-kick was set up for Reid's left foot. Over the wall it went with enough power to elude Chris Day's fingertips.
The shifting momentum saw City knocking on the door once more. Centre halves Andrew Davies and Rory McArdle threatened at set-pieces and Wells stretched Day with another gymnastic attempt.
But the good work was almost undone late on when they dropped off from Oumare Tounkara. City inexplicably parted like the Red Sea to allow the substitute an inviting sight of goal from the edge of the penalty area.
Step forward McLaughlin to the rescue. The keeper may not have been publicly pronounced City's number one but his current form is that of someone who will take a lot of shifting.
He dived low to his left with a strong enough hand to push the ball away – much to the disbelief of the Stevenage striker.
Parkinson said: "It was a magnificent save. Jon's got to keep focused. which I know he will do. He is producing some big moments for us and that's what you need from your goalkeeper."
Attendance: 3,242
===========================
When the dust settled - match report
Reid equaliser gives Parkinson a Bradford City nudge
8:10am Monday 2nd September 2013
By Simon Parker
Kyel Reid hopes he has delivered a timely reminder that he won't become City's forgotten Wembley hero.
The winger has been the odd man out from their promotion party after losing his place to summer capture Mark Yeates.
But he buried any frustration with a stunning free-kick equaliser in his first league start of the campaign at Stevenage.
Reid said: "I've been a bit disappointed to be the one change from last season and I was just happy to get my chance.
"I had problems with my groin at the back end of last season and wasn't 100 per cent fit going into the play-off final.
"But I've worked hard throughout the whole summer and every day since the season started to strengthen it and make sure there's no more trouble.
"I've just been making sure I'm on it every day. To get the goal gives the manager something to think about for the next game.
"I told Nahki (Wells) I fancied taking the free-kick. I saw the gap between the keeper and the wall and thought if I could get it over with a bit of pace, there was a fair chance of it going in."
Reid's first goal since March rescued a point after City had trailed to Greg Tansey's penalty. They were second best in the first half but improved dramatically after a rocket from Phil Parkinson.
Reid said: "The gaffer had a go pretty much at everyone because we were sluggish and we all agreed.
"Stevenage are a difficult team to play against because they are quite strong and physical. We had to match that second half and step it up and we did."
Reid's opportunity at the Lamex Stadium was the first time Parkinson had changed the starting line-up in five league games.
The City boss said: "Reidy's been training so well in the last few weeks. He's scored a lot of goals and looked really sharp.
"On the reverse side, Mark Yeates has had a terrific start for us but he's had a couple of weeks when he's missed training.
"In fairness to Reidy, he took his chance. He was committed and his all-round general game was good.
"Nahki has scored lot of goals for us this season but it's good for us that someone else has got one. It was a top-class free-kick."
Goalkeeper Connor Ripley's extended stay at Valley Parade is expected to be sorted today but Parkinson is non-committal about any permanent addition to the squad before the transfer window shuts at 11pm.
He said: "We've got one or two things we're talking about but it might be the week after or the week after that when we bring a loan player in if we need one."
===========================
City's teenage goal machine Oliver McBurnie has been warned: The hard work starts here.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10639847.Bantams_starlet_McBurnie_in_hat_trick_heaven/
===========================
City's away game at Coventry – who play their home games at Northampton's Sixfields Stadium this season – has moved forward to a 2pm kick-off on Saturday, February 15 to avoid
clashing with the Northampton Saints, who kick off at 3pm.
===========================
NAHKI WELLS NAMED IN ENGLAND'S "FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE WEEK"
By Lawrence Trott, Royal Gazette, Bermuda
Nahki Wells won't be joining Queens Park Rangers or anybody else any time
soon, according to Bradford City manager Phil Parkinson.
And it was revealed today the Bermudian doesn't yet hold the Bradford
scoring record which was reported on the weekend.
Still, his scoring exploits are earning him recognition after he was named
in the Football League Team of the Week which includes all 72 teams in the
three divisions below the Premier League.
Parkinson reiterated that the club's hottest property won't be sold to QPR
or another club before the transfer window closes on Monday. Wells became
the subject of a possible £3 million bid from Championship side QPR, but
Parkinson is determined the player won't be leaving Valley Parade.
"There are always going to be rumours. You expect that," said the Bradford
manager. "QPR have just signed Charlie Austin and others. I'm sure they
won't be interested.
"It's fairly difficult at this point to let anyone go because it would be
almost impossible to bring someone in. It's something we don't want. I want
to keep improving the squad and not weakening it by losing players. That's
the situation."
Wells netted twice against Sheffield United last weekend to extend his
remarkable scoring run to eight games on the trot. It was reported at the
time to be a club scoring record but Bradford Telegraph and Argus reported
yesterday that Wells actually equalled the tally set by Derek Stokes between
December 1959 and February 1960. That leaves Wells needing to score against
Stevenage on Saturday to break the record which he now shares with Stokes.
Wells remained in the headlines yesterday by being named in the Football
League Team of the Week after his performance last weekend against Sheffield
United. Wells is the only League One player named in the team, along with
Huddersfield striker James Vaughan, a £600,000 summer buy from Norwich who
has already netted seven goals this season.
The team includes other Sky Bet Championship players, goalkeeper Matt Gilks
of Blackpool, defenders Todd Kane of Blackburn and Clint Hill of QPR and
midfielders Adam Hammill (Huddersfield), Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough)
and Andy Reed (Nottingham Forest). Three League 2 also make the team.
===========================
http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/bradford-city-bantams-wait-is-over.html
Mick Doyle is the club's Head Groundsman
===========================
http://texasbantam.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/46810838356/
===========================
Signings, Loans and Injuries
Loan extension
Connor Ripley, extended to Jan 2014
Injuries
===========================
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
Sing along
http://terracechants.me.uk/club/chants/Bradford+City/oldest/3/ (warning expletives involved)
2013 suite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYVaty8hdHg
===========================
Preview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23822861
Game links
http://m.espn.go.com/soccer/gamecast?gameId=368116&action=stats&lang=EN
Goals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWyf-shjGU&feature=youtu.be
Live Blog
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10646342.Live_blog__Stevenage_v_Bradford_City/
===========================
Final whistle - match report
Bradford City respond well to 'hairdryer' treatment
6:10am Monday 2nd September 2013
By Simon Parker
Stevenage 1, City 1
The whistle had barely left the referee's lips before Steve Parkin appeared on the edge of the pitch jabbing his thumb towards the dressing rooms.
For the City players, the implication of this gesture was crystal clear. "Oi, you lot! Get in here. Now."
There was no need to second guess what was awaiting the team from their half-time "debriefing".
Safe to say, the Stevenage ground staff probably need to pick up some new Dulux this week to replace the paint that had peeled from the walls of the visiting room.
It's not often these days that City come off second best. So that opening 45 minutes came as a nasty shock to the system.
No wonder Parkin and Phil Parkinson could not get the team back inside quick enough. If the players thought it was hot pitchside – and the weather had a pre-season feel to it – that was nothing compared with the temperature awaiting them behind the closed door.
Parkinson has not had many occasions when he has needed to raise his voice of late. He usually keeps his observations calm and calculated.
On Saturday, harsh words needed to be said – and how they found the target. The City that emerged at 4pm were a complete contrast to the one that had kicked off an hour before.
The "passive" approach of the first half, as the manager called it, was replaced by the steely determination that we have grown to expect. Giving up is not in their dictionary.
Parkinson admitted: "Stevenage is a difficult place to come. They put you under a lot of pressure and make it a very physical game.
"You have to stand up and be counted and I don't think we did that to the best of our ability in the first half. We were lacklustre.
"But what a terrific reaction. We showed a different side to us having to respond like that and we did.
"I've been here before and seen teams get rolled over three or four nil if they aren't mentally and physically right. But in the second half we went on the front foot, closed down a lot better and were very competitive."
Those battling qualities and refusal to be bullied should have been admired in the home dugout. Graham Westley, Stevenage's 'Marmite' manager, has built his club to over-achieve on similar rules of engagement.
But the man whose programme notes had centred on the ground-breaking theory "score the goals, keep a clean sheet, three points" was more bothered about having a pop at the referee.
True, Gary Sutton's performance was pretty awful. We had been spoiled by Chris Foy the previous weekend.
And had the Nathan Doyle incident – when the midfielder appeared to have handled as he blocked a shot on the line – occurred at the other end, I'm sure Parkinson would have had a similar beef – if not for quite as long.
But Westley's insistence on blaming just about everything on the official – he also wanted Stephen Darby sent off for a mistimed tackle on the touchline – was tiresome and glossed over the away side's tenacity at rescuing what appeared to be a lost cause.
Certainly Stevenage's midweek exertions at taking Everton to extra time may have caught up with them in the late afternoon sunshine. But take nothing away from the City fightback.
And if this was a good point to take back north, it was a significant afternoon for their goal-scorer.
All eyes have been fixed on Nahki Wells and the list of scouts at the Lamex Stadium was a long one. Newcastle, Huddersfield and Brighton were among the names – no prizes for guessing the prime reason for their trip.
Wells, for once, struck out and missed the opportunity to take sole ownership of the club record for scoring in most games on the trot.
It was not for a lack of trying – particularly shots of the overhead variety – but he squandered the golden chance to make it nine in a row when he spooned over from Kyel Reid's inviting cross in the first half.
Instead it was Reid who seized the spotlight and showed that he is not prepared to accept being the odd man out from Wembley.
Few, if any, promoted sides keep their teams intact to the same extent as City; two or three changes maybe – but just one from the 11 that dismantled Northampton in May?
Reid had been that solitary omission until the weekend. It was so surprising to see a new name on the team sheet, the first one this season in the league, that we had to check it had not been mistyped.
But Parkinson felt Reid had shown enough on the training pitch to justify his selection. He was in on merit.
The left winger can excite and infuriate in equal measure but this time he relished the stage. His stunning free-kick equaliser was true reward for an afternoon of positive intent and attacking menace.
Not that we saw too much of that from the blue shirts in a first half that Stevenage dominated.
With their strikers dropping off into holes, the home movement confused City at times and a defensive rearguard action was required.
In trying a diving block from one Freeman effort, Gary Jones used a hand and Greg Tansey beat Jon McLaughlin from the penalty spot.
There were other scares but the biggest came on the half-hour mark as Doyle smuggled the ball away from inside the right post. "Hands," screamed Westley and his cohorts; nothing doing was Sutton's response with a shake of the head.
Westley later argued that at 2-0 against ten men, it would have been game over. Maybe, on this occasion, City got a big break.
Wells missed at the other end and Reid drove over the bar but the half-time gee-up was much needed – and City were back level within three minutes of the restart.
Wells was shoved in the back – a soft foul but a clear one – and the 25-yard free-kick was set up for Reid's left foot. Over the wall it went with enough power to elude Chris Day's fingertips.
The shifting momentum saw City knocking on the door once more. Centre halves Andrew Davies and Rory McArdle threatened at set-pieces and Wells stretched Day with another gymnastic attempt.
But the good work was almost undone late on when they dropped off from Oumare Tounkara. City inexplicably parted like the Red Sea to allow the substitute an inviting sight of goal from the edge of the penalty area.
Step forward McLaughlin to the rescue. The keeper may not have been publicly pronounced City's number one but his current form is that of someone who will take a lot of shifting.
He dived low to his left with a strong enough hand to push the ball away – much to the disbelief of the Stevenage striker.
Parkinson said: "It was a magnificent save. Jon's got to keep focused. which I know he will do. He is producing some big moments for us and that's what you need from your goalkeeper."
Attendance: 3,242
===========================
When the dust settled - match report
Reid equaliser gives Parkinson a Bradford City nudge
8:10am Monday 2nd September 2013
By Simon Parker
Kyel Reid hopes he has delivered a timely reminder that he won't become City's forgotten Wembley hero.
The winger has been the odd man out from their promotion party after losing his place to summer capture Mark Yeates.
But he buried any frustration with a stunning free-kick equaliser in his first league start of the campaign at Stevenage.
Reid said: "I've been a bit disappointed to be the one change from last season and I was just happy to get my chance.
"I had problems with my groin at the back end of last season and wasn't 100 per cent fit going into the play-off final.
"But I've worked hard throughout the whole summer and every day since the season started to strengthen it and make sure there's no more trouble.
"I've just been making sure I'm on it every day. To get the goal gives the manager something to think about for the next game.
"I told Nahki (Wells) I fancied taking the free-kick. I saw the gap between the keeper and the wall and thought if I could get it over with a bit of pace, there was a fair chance of it going in."
Reid's first goal since March rescued a point after City had trailed to Greg Tansey's penalty. They were second best in the first half but improved dramatically after a rocket from Phil Parkinson.
Reid said: "The gaffer had a go pretty much at everyone because we were sluggish and we all agreed.
"Stevenage are a difficult team to play against because they are quite strong and physical. We had to match that second half and step it up and we did."
Reid's opportunity at the Lamex Stadium was the first time Parkinson had changed the starting line-up in five league games.
The City boss said: "Reidy's been training so well in the last few weeks. He's scored a lot of goals and looked really sharp.
"On the reverse side, Mark Yeates has had a terrific start for us but he's had a couple of weeks when he's missed training.
"In fairness to Reidy, he took his chance. He was committed and his all-round general game was good.
"Nahki has scored lot of goals for us this season but it's good for us that someone else has got one. It was a top-class free-kick."
Goalkeeper Connor Ripley's extended stay at Valley Parade is expected to be sorted today but Parkinson is non-committal about any permanent addition to the squad before the transfer window shuts at 11pm.
He said: "We've got one or two things we're talking about but it might be the week after or the week after that when we bring a loan player in if we need one."
===========================
City's teenage goal machine Oliver McBurnie has been warned: The hard work starts here.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10639847.Bantams_starlet_McBurnie_in_hat_trick_heaven/
===========================
City's away game at Coventry – who play their home games at Northampton's Sixfields Stadium this season – has moved forward to a 2pm kick-off on Saturday, February 15 to avoid
clashing with the Northampton Saints, who kick off at 3pm.
===========================
NAHKI WELLS NAMED IN ENGLAND'S "FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE WEEK"
By Lawrence Trott, Royal Gazette, Bermuda
Nahki Wells won't be joining Queens Park Rangers or anybody else any time
soon, according to Bradford City manager Phil Parkinson.
And it was revealed today the Bermudian doesn't yet hold the Bradford
scoring record which was reported on the weekend.
Still, his scoring exploits are earning him recognition after he was named
in the Football League Team of the Week which includes all 72 teams in the
three divisions below the Premier League.
Parkinson reiterated that the club's hottest property won't be sold to QPR
or another club before the transfer window closes on Monday. Wells became
the subject of a possible £3 million bid from Championship side QPR, but
Parkinson is determined the player won't be leaving Valley Parade.
"There are always going to be rumours. You expect that," said the Bradford
manager. "QPR have just signed Charlie Austin and others. I'm sure they
won't be interested.
"It's fairly difficult at this point to let anyone go because it would be
almost impossible to bring someone in. It's something we don't want. I want
to keep improving the squad and not weakening it by losing players. That's
the situation."
Wells netted twice against Sheffield United last weekend to extend his
remarkable scoring run to eight games on the trot. It was reported at the
time to be a club scoring record but Bradford Telegraph and Argus reported
yesterday that Wells actually equalled the tally set by Derek Stokes between
December 1959 and February 1960. That leaves Wells needing to score against
Stevenage on Saturday to break the record which he now shares with Stokes.
Wells remained in the headlines yesterday by being named in the Football
League Team of the Week after his performance last weekend against Sheffield
United. Wells is the only League One player named in the team, along with
Huddersfield striker James Vaughan, a £600,000 summer buy from Norwich who
has already netted seven goals this season.
The team includes other Sky Bet Championship players, goalkeeper Matt Gilks
of Blackpool, defenders Todd Kane of Blackburn and Clint Hill of QPR and
midfielders Adam Hammill (Huddersfield), Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough)
and Andy Reed (Nottingham Forest). Three League 2 also make the team.
===========================
http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/bradford-city-bantams-wait-is-over.html
Mick Doyle is the club's Head Groundsman
===========================
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