It was Saturday lunchtime on the outskirts of Bradford and Graham Alexander found himself caught in traffic. He was, in his mind, a good 20 minutes’ drive from the University of Bradford Stadium on a route usually clear of cars. “I thought: ‘this can’t be for our game’,” said the Bantams manager. “As I got closer and closer … it was.”
Bradford City are becoming familiar with bumper crowds these days as the club ride high in League Two. Promotion talk is now rife around the city. The 22,214 fans packed into the ground most still know as Valley Parade certainly got value for their money on Saturday. Just 12 seconds had elapsed, in fact, when their team went ahead against Crewe thanks to Bobby Pointon. The visitors’ first proper touch of the ball was when their goalkeeper Filip Marschall fetched the ball from his net, Pointon having steered home after Calum Kavanagh struck the post.
