BASIC INFO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_A.F.C. Fixtures before Wembley 26th Jan â Wycombe (H) POSTPONED 2nd Feb â Fleetwood Town (A) D 2-2 9th Feb â Gillingham (H) L 0-1 12th Feb â Wycombe (A) 16th Feb â AFC Wimbledon (A) 24th Feb â Swansea City (Wembley) TEAM - http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/team/ BRADFORD is the 14th biggest City/Town in the UK and the Curry Capital of the UK (I thought St Helens Road was!)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford SEMI FINAL LINE UP Duke Darby, McArdle, McHugh, Good. Hines, Doyle, G Jones, Atkinson. Wells, Hanson. LEAGUE POSITION â 10th - http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/fixtures-results/league-table/ CAPITAL ONE CUP RUN Notts County (A) Won 1-0 Watford (A) Won 2-1 Burton Albion (H) Won 3-2 Wigan (A) Drew 0-0 (Won on penalties) Arsenal (H) Drew 1-1 (Won on penalties) Aston Villa (H) Won 3-1 Aston Villa (A) Lost 2-1 (Won 4-3 on aggregate) RESULTS - http://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/fixtures-results/ MANAGER â Phil Parkinson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Parkinson SWANS FIXTURES BEFORE WEMBLEY 29th Jan â Sunderland (A) D 0-0 2nd Feb â West Ham (A) L 0-1 9th Feb â QPR (H) W 4-1 17th Feb - Liverpool (A) 24th Feb â Bradford City (Wembley) The Swans will have 15 days off before the Final - Too long or ideal preparation? This has now changed as we are playing Liverpool 7 days before the final - PGF 30/1
After tomorrows match Bradford will be flying out to Tenerife for a Midwinter break http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co....unning__now_race_is_on_to_make_the_cup_final/
I've just registered on Claret and Banter, one of Bradford's forums. There's quite a bit of nonsense going on over there on a thread titled 'Swansea Forum" referring to Planet Swans, saying we've forgotten where we've come from, we're over-confident and even arrogant. I've seen little evidence of this so I've set the record straight I'm extremely confident as we all should be, but I'm expecting a tough game. http://www.claretandbanter.co.uk/threads/32972-Swansea-forum
15 days off before the match!! Do we think it'll involve a trip to the Canaries for some mid-winter sunshine training? Hopefully it won't give the boys time to get complacent
Don't think it'll be a case of feet up. I suspect Laudrup will have them training well and studying DVDs. If it goes to pens (god forbid) Vorm will be looking at their pen takers - they're all very good. I don't think it'll come to that. Bradford's final was against Villa and as some of their fans have said they'll be singing if they lose 10-nil. Anything can happen, because it's football, but if we play to our ability we're looking at a comfortable win. I still don't like us being favourites though.
Hmmm...you're right nbj. Hadn't thought of that. Another reason why it shouldn't be allowed to go to pens. Our specialist pen saver will be on the bench.
we will hammer them. they will have a good go because of the occasion but we have to much class and will win by a clear margin. I think we will have it all sown up by half time...4-0 minimum....wigan and villa are both relegation fodder and we are a top half team going for a European place....The players will treat them with respect and play them as if they were man utd and will win the game with not much problem....I have no doubt about that whatsoever....
hope none of players get injured whilst on international duty, wont be our best preperation with half the team away
I know on paper we will hammer them but, we are swansea city we never win the easy games do we! (just setting myself up for the worst) swansea 3-0
When Oldham beat Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday, maybe we'll play Liverpool on Feb 16/17 as we were due to play them at Anfield on Feb 24th. Just a thought.
That is a free weekend for us because of the FA cup so that's a good shout there Aswan. I wouldn't be surprised though if there was some silly rule that stopped us playing them a week earl
I just checked out their forum f.....g deluded bunch. They think that we are only michu and pass sideways! I hate that MOTD crap that everyone spews out about our "tipy tapy pass it in our own half with no execution" I'm sure English people don't know how modern football should be played! I hope we teach them a lesson and SMASH THE FU.K out of then now!
