Sam Walker

Goalkeeper - Bradford City
9 Jan 2027
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16 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Bradford City

Tommy Leigh 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Gullit Peña 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.

Loan watch16 Nov 2026

Harry Ibbitson has seen enough of Cheltenham Town

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bradford City, and 3 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Sam Walker 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.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

A reunion for Will Swan

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Port Vale in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

George Lapslie gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say George Lapslie is on it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes Matthew Pennington a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Bradford City. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

George Lapslie knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and George Lapslie trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

Looking ahead: the trip to Port Vale

Position 19 for the hosts, a long journey for the away end, and a fixture that will look ordinary on paper right up until it is not.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Bradford City Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Sep 2026

Tyreik Wright hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bradford City can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Bradford City close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

No thanks: Anísio Cabral rejects the move

Bradford City had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Benfica, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

The window shuts on the Emmanuel Adegboyega deal

Bradford City ran out of time with Rotherham United. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Max Dean

Bradford City asked and KV Kortrijk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market7 Sep 2026

Still no ink between Bradford City and Jayden Wareham

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bradford City, another week without a signature from Jayden Wareham.

Squad7 Sep 2026

10 new faces, and Bradford City are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Josh Andrews

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Josh Andrews, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Nick Powell is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Nick Powell has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief