(My match reports from our Premiership days – 1999-2000) Match 03 – Premier League – August 21st 1999 Watford 1 (Mooney 71) Bradford 0 This was a revenge mission for Paul Jewell. The Bradford City boss was playing for the Bantams when they crashed 7-2 to Watford in December 1989; although the scoreline was not…
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LATE BEAGRIE PENALTY RESCUES POINT FOR CITY
(My match reports from our Premiership days – 1999-2000) Match 02 – Premier League – August 14th 1999 Bradford 1 (Beagrie 89 pen) Sheffield Wednesday 1 (Dreyer 39 OG) A last minute Peter Beagrie penalty against Sheffield Wednesday gave Bradford a point in their first Premiership match at Valley Parade. City, still unbeaten, showed determination…
SAUNDERS IS LAST MINUTE HERO
(My match reports from our Premiership days – 1999-2000) Match 01 – Premier League – August 7th 1999 Middlesbrough 0 Bradford City 1 (Saunders 89) If Bradford City’s previous season was like a fairytale for their fans and management, then their first ever Premiership fixture – and first game in the top flight for 77 years…
Day 230 – 365
Day 230 – 365 / August 18th 2015 Valley Parade features, yet again, in another “365 Project” image. Here we see the Bradford City team moments before kick off against Gillingham in the second league match at Valley Parade this season. Seven minutes later James Hanson put us 1-0 up with his first league goal of the…
Day 228 – 365
Day 228 – 365 / August 16th 2015 We were pleased to be able to collect the scarves from the weavers in time for Saturday’s first home game of the season. The folk who had kindly reserved the scarves and turned up to collect them seemed very pleased with them. That was especially gratifying as, with any…
Day 227 – 365
Day 227 – 365 / August 15th 2015 It’s always a special day when you attend the first home game of the season. A chance to revisit your spiritual home and to soak in the ambience and vibe of the place that the close season deprives you off between early May and the start of August. You…
The Parader – a #bcafc logo or not a logo?
I have made a few tweaks and amendments to the logo I was asked to design for “The Parader”, the Bradford City AFC programme, for this coming season. I do not know if it is going to be used but it was on the cover of the programme for the recent pre-season friendly against Carlisle…
Day 177 – 365
Day 177 – 365 / June 26th 2015 My team is Bradford City. I think everyone who knows me knows that. If they don’t then they haven’t been taking an awful lot of interest in me have they? What folk may not know is that City have for several years now offered the lowest cost…
My Ode to Parky.
In Parky We Trust by @Gav_The_Bantam Phil Parkinson, he is our man. He’s lauded by all Bantams. For others, who had come before, Proved nothing, merely phantoms. Despair and woe, The Decade of Hurt, With players unworthy of our shirt. PP came, swept that away, Instilling passion to our play. He is our king, our…
Day 10 – 365
Day 10 – 365 / January 10th 2015 Be afraid of the man on the right of this photo. Be very afraid. Well, if you are a fan of any football team in the professional leagues in England, be afraid. His name is Gavin Ward and he was the referee today at Valley Parade as…
Gavin Dimmock. Writer. 