The Bradford City Herald
Squad27 Aug 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ryan Manning
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bradford City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match25 Aug 2035
Nobody wins at Bradford City
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Tempers go at Bradford City
Bakhammad Khadjimusala was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market27 Aug 2035
Jalil Traoré attracts admirers
The name of Jalil Traoré has come up in conversations Bradford City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match25 Aug 2035
Omari Benjamin sends Bradford City past Port Vale
It finished 1‑0, and it was Omari Benjamin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bradford City.
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
One of those days for Omari Benjamin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad27 Aug 2035
A muscle injury sidelines Jack Ryder for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Bradford City will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Home is on Steven Akanji's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Bradford City are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
Nobody could get near Clarke Oduor
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market The Omari Benjamin question follows Bradford City around
- Market Peter Young leaves for nothing
- Market Benjamin Cook leaves for nothing