Report for November 2001
Hall of fame
John Hendrie
Players come and players go, but there is only one John Hendrie and BfB readers have added him to the BfB Bradford City Hall of Fame.
Employee of the month
Robbie Blake
When Robbie Blake trudged down the tunnel after being taken off for Juanjo who sealed that 2-0 win over Walsall the cheers for the Spaniard's strike must have run in the City striker's ears and thought so time cooling his heels in the reserves sprung to mind. However this year's Blake is here to last and Robbie pulled up his socks and started to score again with two at Norwich and a stunner at Preston.
Goal of the month
Blake's 25 yarder against Preston
A ball tucked into Robbie Blake who stumbles, turn, moves across his marker and fires into the far top corner from outside the box.
On-field positive
Things are back on track with Jim Jefferies 442 formation.
On-field negative
The move from the 433 formation and loss of the likes of Benito Carbone and David Wetherall has left City looking less special that the team that terrorised at the start of the season.
Off-field positive
Talks for Premiership Two started, and we are in them.
Off-field negative
David Wetherall's continued being off of the field in a problem.
Funny
The Norwich City top of the league party that fell kind of flat when we beat them 4-1.
Not funny
The virus that the webmaster of certain City captain's web site sent to BfB towers putting our brand spanking new machine out of action.
Breakdown
Crewe Alexandra [a] 2-2 Blake, McCall
Norwich City [a] 4-1 Jess, Blake 2 (1p), Bower
Walsall [h] 2-0 Jess, Juanjo
Preston North End [a] 1-1 Blake
West Bromwich Albion [a] 0-1
Comments
- Michael Wood Column
- Thursday 22 November, 2001 Backing the players strike despite the PFA
- Jon Blakely's Canadian Chronicles
- Wednesday 21 November, 2001 Between Bantams and Baggies
- Saturday 10 November, 2001 That was then, this is now
- Jonathan Jackson Column
- Wednesday 14 November, 2001 A life sentence
- Saturday 10 November, 2001 Windass, Wetherall and dividends
- David Wood Column
- Saturday 10 November, 2001 Big Jim reads BfB
- Roland Harris Column
- Wednesday 28 November, 2001 Joining the Jim
- Mike Thorne Column
- Saturday 10 November, 2001 I'd love to but I don't want to
- James Ramsden Column
- Friday 23 November, 2001 Football in the land of song