The Bradford City Herald
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Thomas Butler is out at Bradford City
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Dastan Sätpayev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bradford City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
John Foster minds the shop at Bradford City
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; John Foster recited it perfectly.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Up for the corner, and Jenson Metcalfe delivers — 7.84
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Jenson Metcalfe scored, was marked 7.84, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Kalvin Phillips 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.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Nothing got past Jota
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Bradford City
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words at Bradford City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bashir Humphreys 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.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Aston Villa tell Bradford City: Róbert Boženík is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Jenson Metcalfe
- Market Bradford City promote Jacob Collins from within
- Market One of our own: Edward White joins the Bradford City first team