Defeat / Carlisle / Soul
Defeat in the League Two play-offs for Mark Hughes' Bradford City is a sobering experience when contrasted with the soulessness which pervades football in May 2023.
View ArticleReview / Opportunity / Eden
The 2022/2023 season finished with City missing out on promotion that, probably, was never an opportunity but given the improvement within the squad it might be reasonable to expect that opportunity in...
View ArticleGibb / Rhodes / Honourable
Flamingo Land will sponsor Bradford City next season, recalling the exit of the theme park's owner Gordon Gibb from Valley Parade, the ramifications of that, and a time when clubs of the size of...
View ArticleMemes / 2023 / Football
A preview of the 2023/2024 season in which Wrexham represent a memeification of League Two football, Stockport County offer an interesting alternative to structured play, and Bradford City have the...
View ArticleEvolution / Ending / Gormenghast
A change in the rules of football have added more time to each game, creating an imbalance in matches which push teams to conserve energy, stopping attacking play, and breaking the fundamental...
View ArticleOppenheimer / Neal / Smallwood
Richie Smallwood is criticised for playing the role which manager Mark Hughes gives him to play, and for playing it well, because a group of people who watch football do not like that there are roles...
View ArticleSolutions / Shifting / Easy
Conversations about solving problems at Valley Parade focus on the thing which can be changed, because making the change as an imposition of will is more important than the effectiveness of that change.
View ArticleShadow / Anima / Decisions
We live split between two worlds. There is the real world in which on the second of October it is raining as Bradford City head over to The Wirral to play Tranmere Rovers having lost 3-1 to Walsall at...
View ArticleSwindon / Flattened / Outside
Having replaced Mark Hughes as Bradford City manager Kevin McDonald made few changes and enjoyed a similar result as Hughes had previously. This creates a problem for the club as it goes to look to...
View ArticleArm / Trap / Stone
There are three ways to win a football match, and a football manager has to have an understanding how a game will be won, and after his opening months as Bradford City manager Graham Alexander does not...
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