UPDATE FIXTURES AND SCORES
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2014/15 League One Fixtures
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Pre-season fixtures
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The highlights In brief
Friendlies
Shelbourne 0 CITY 4
UCD 3 City 2
Guiseley 0 City 3
July 21
League One side Bradford City sign Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford on a season-long loan deal
City's game at Barnsley now moved to the Sunday (12 October) and will be shown LIVE on Sky Sports.
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Thursday 17th Ireland update
http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/news/article/latest-from-ireland-1765260.aspx
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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/11337299.Bradford_City_kick_off_pre_season_with_comfortable_win/
Bradford City kick off pre-season with comfortable win
4:46pm Saturday 12th July 2014
By Simon Parker
City eased to a comfortable 3-0 win at Guiseley in their opening pre-season friendly this afternoon.
All the goals came in the first half with youngster Lewis Clarkson, who started up front alongside James Hanson, netting
twice. Matty Dolan was also on target with a free-kick.
City, who changed the entire team at half-time, used five trialists, including one-time QPR attacker Angelo Balanta and
former Derby striker Callum Ball.
The second half saw no more goals but City had the chances to increase their tally.
Mark Yeates and Billy Clarke both had efforts cleared off the line, and Ball headed against the bar. Raffaele De Vita also
should have scored from close range.
City fly off to Dublin tomorrow (sunday) to begin their training week in Ireland.
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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/11338340.Bradford_City_striker_Clarkson_finds_top_gear_to_shoot_down_
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PP on Guisely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxjDJ_v-4lk
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Clarkson at the double but City beaten
9:38pm Tuesday 15th July 2014
By Simon Parker
Lewis Clarkson grabbed another two goals but City's opening friendly in Ireland ended in a 3-2 defeat at UCD.
Goals from Robbie Creevy, Conor Cannon and Toyeed Mustapha earned the win for the Dublin side.
Matt Taylor successfully negotiated the second half in his first appearance since December.
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Bantams boss Phil Parkinson gives his post-match views after UCD friendly -
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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/11342912.Lew_beauty__Clarkson_bang_on_form_for_Bantams_again_in_Irela
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Lew beauty! Clarkson bang on form for Bantams again in Ireland
8:31am Wednesday 16th July 2014
By Simon Parker
UCD 3 Bradford City 2
LEWIS Clarkson continued his one-man campaign to force his way into the City picture with another double in Dublin.
With four goals in four days, the youngster is fast making up for lost time with an explosive start to pre-season.
Clarkson proved his poaching skills at Guiseley were no one-off as he twice equalised against an enthusiastic UCD side.
Once again there was no Aaron Mclean or Oliver McBurnie, although the youngster should be okay to face Shelbourne on
Saturday. So Clarkson once again grabbed his chance to steal the limelight.
But while he took another sizeable step into Phil Parkinson's thinking, the same could not be said for Angelo Balanta.
The Colombian trialist, who started on the left side of City's tweaked 4-2-3-1 line-up, horribly blew a one-on-one early on
and did little else to impress. On this evidence, he will do well to get offered anything.
Parkinson kept with tradition and upped the playing time for game two, holding off the raft of substitutions until just
after the hour.
The only interval change had seen first-half skipper Rory McArdle make way for Matt Taylor and the central defender's first
outing since December.
Most of the big-hitters came on from the bench and the starting side found it tough going against lively hosts in the
middle of their season.
The plan was for Balanta and Raffaele De Vita to drift in from wide and back up Clarkson and Mark Yeates. But there was
none of Saturday's edge to their attacking play.
UCD struck the first blow after 20 minutes when Gary Burke's free-kick was flicked on by Robbie Creevy and the back header
looped over Jon McLaughlin into the far corner.
Balanta's bad miss soon followed and then De Vita blazed high and wide before that man Clarkson levelled just ahead of the
break with a sharp finish from a set-up by Yeates.
The Irishman's cross eluded the head of Balanta but the little striker was alert to it at the far post to convert past
Niall Corbet.
But instead of shaking up City, the goal just served to gee up UCD. McLaughlin, clad in day-glo orange, saved superbly from
Timmy Molloy but was promptly betrayed by sloppiness from his defence.
Yeates put his own man Alan Sheehan under pressure by the City box, his pass for Niall Heaton went awry and Conor Cannon
neatly stepped around McLaughlin before restoring the home side's lead.
UCD threatened a third as Robbie Benson's chip bounced on the bar but Clarkson was not to be denied and, after collecting a
well-judged pass from De Vita, drilled a second equaliser through keeper Niall Corbet's legs.
The Students continued to pose a threat even after the mass City change – the "substitution from Hell" as the luckless
announcer described it.
Youngster Sam Wright was the only Bantam to go the distance and acquitted himself keenly in the middle. But unfortunately
he was involved in the mix-up which led to UCD's 78th-minute winner.
A misplaced pass by the youth-team midfielder to Andrew Davies allowed Toyeed Mustapha to burst away and score.
City tried to peg them back for a third time but James Hanson headed across goal from Stephen Darby's cross.
UCD, who drew with Peterborough and MK Dons in last pre-season, had their scalp.
Boss Aaron Callaghan could also enjoy the bragging rights over City assistant Steve Parkin, his former team-mate at Stoke.
James Meredith was the third member of the travelling party not to feature after hurting his foot in training on Monday.
Given that it was in the same area that he fractured in January, nobody was taking any chances.
Parkinson said: "UCD were energetic and it certainly wasn't a typical pre-season game.
"Physically it was a good test for us on a very big pitch but we conceded three poor goals."
CITY: McLaughlin (Barker 63), Arnold (Darby 63), McArdle (Taylor 46), Sheehan (Davies 63), Heaton (King 76), Kennedy (Dolan
63), Wright, De Vita (Liddle 63), Yeates (Knott 63), Balanta (Clarke 63), Clarkson (Hanson 63).
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Bantams boss Phil Parkinson after Shelbourne pre-season victory -
https://t.co/ukCS1q7ZMe
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/11353015.Clarke_doubles_up_as_Bradford_City_stroll_in_Dublin/
4:39pm Saturday 19th July 2014
By Simon Parker
Billy Clarke fired a double as City rounded off their Irish tour with a convincing 4-0 win over Shelbourne this afternoon.
Barring Aaron Mclean, Phil Parkinson fielded his strongest possible side for the first hour. And the gulf in class showed
against a home side made up chiefly of youngsters and trialists.
Alan Sheehan scored City's opener in the 20th minute from the penalty spot after Willo McDonagh handled his cross.
Clarke soon made it two from a pass by the energetic Mark Yeates as the visitors took complete control.
Clarke fired his second ten minutes into the second half after a charge up the field by Andrew Davies.
City switched all 11 players just after the hour and Raffaele De Vita thumped in the fourth from an angle.
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Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford joins Bradford on loan
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28404108
Bradford City have signed Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford on a season-long loan deal.
The 20-year-old ended last season on loan in League One with Carlisle, making 18 appearances as they failed to avoid
relegation.
Pickford, who has yet to make his Black Cats debut, previously had loan spells with Darlington, Alfreton and Burton.
He is the second Sunderland player to sign for the Bantams this summer after midfielder Billy Knott joined in May.
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