Simon Walker

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Marked for Simon Walker

438 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

18 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Dec 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simon Walker

16 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.

Match16 Dec 2034

Nowhere to hide for Bradford City

0‑4 against Cambridge United, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match16 Dec 2034

5 matches without a win for Bradford City

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Bradford City are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings18 Dec 2034

Omari Benjamin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Dec 2034

Callum Bates falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad18 Dec 2034

Jenson Metcalfe gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
437 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

11 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces11 Dec 2034

Anger at Bradford City spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad11 Dec 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simon Walker

23 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.

Match9 Dec 2034

No end in sight to Bradford City's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bradford City has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings11 Dec 2034

Omari Benjamin in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings11 Dec 2034

Callum Bates was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad11 Dec 2034

Omari Benjamin is carrying Bradford City

8 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad11 Dec 2034

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.

Match9 Dec 2034

Honours even between Bradford City and Colchester United

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad11 Dec 2034

Bakhammad Khadjimusala gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

436 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

4 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Dec 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simon Walker

30 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.

Squad4 Dec 2034

A fracture rules Jason Harris out for 18 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bradford City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market4 Dec 2034

Cameron Paul is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bradford City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad4 Dec 2034

Andrey Khityaev stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrey Khityaev and Bradford City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad4 Dec 2034

Callum Bates falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match2 Dec 2034

A bad afternoon for Bradford City against Exeter City

1‑2 to Exeter City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

435 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

27 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings27 Nov 2034

Nobody could get near Omari Benjamin

Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad27 Nov 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simon Walker

37 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.

Squad27 Nov 2034

A fracture rules Jason Harris out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bradford City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad27 Nov 2034

Ryan Manning 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.

Squad27 Nov 2034

Words at Bradford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Callum Bates 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.

Match25 Nov 2034

Bradford City draw a blank against Oldham Athletic

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Oldham Athletic defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief