Michael Roberts

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Bradford City U18
4 Nov 2029
Sunday
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110 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Mark Thompson has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bradford City can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

The Bradford City board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Player ratings

Mathias Jørgensen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Sam Walker signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sam Walker and Bradford City agree another 2 years.

Squad

Words at Bradford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bobby Pointon is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Toby Steward

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Eyes on Joe Hilton again

The phone has started ringing about Joe Hilton again, and this time the name on the line is Sheffield Wednesday. Bradford City are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bradford City against Shrewsbury Town

0‑1 to Shrewsbury Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

K'Marni Miller in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bradford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief