Dear Sven, my team Bradford City have had a tough enough decade as it is without you turning up and ruining the opening day of the season for us. Don’t do it again.
Bradford? The less said the better. Their manager, Stuart McCall, tendered his resignation at the end of last season, when they blew promotion and finished ninth. The board talked him into staying, but Yorkshire shell-shock was not confined to Headingley on Saturday night.
Joe Lovejoy in the Guardian
Time to console myself with another fixture between these two teams that ended more favourably for the mighty Bantams, the 1996 Division Two (previously known as Division Three, now known as League One) playoff final:
Whatever happened to Des Hamilton? The lad had real talent…
Mark Stallard! That seems like a long time ago now…
