Sing when your winning

The case for running out at Valley Parade.

The word is out. City are flipping open CD boxes and popping in eight tracks to try find a new tune for the boys to enter the field to, a new theme for the Bantams to replace the A-Team. BfB walked the cyberstreets of Bradford to find out what the locals would have as the tune for promotion...

The A-Team

BfB editor Michael Wood: There are some things in life that you can't choose: Your family, your football team, your name, the male pattern baldness that has kicked in. There are other things hat you can choose, do, but with you had gone a different route for. Think of the name for this web site and your not far off.

But like this humble site's name the A-Team tune is not there because it is good, or because it means anything on a greater scale but rather it is, because it is. The A-Team was the tune that greeted promotion. The A-Team was the tune we sung on the way back from Wolves. The A-Team is my mobile phone ring. Of course if we had known that memories of glory would be attached to what was pumped out of the PA in November 1999 we might have gone for a bit more class: Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, Barber's Adagio perhaps, but we did not.

The memories, the inspiration is attached to a single tune, the A Team. Cheesy yes, but our kind of cheese.

Into The Valley

Believed to be the club's choice and a favourite of City Gent man Dave Pendleton fan Paul Fixter takes up it's cause "Into The Valley! Better than all the other crap they are thinking of.

It's a true 70s classic and so appropriate to City and VP. Let's hope they crank it up loud, last time we ran out to it, it was so quiet you couldn't hear it!

The uni-named Phil agrees. "Punk rock was about getting people excited, play it loud and get everyone singing I say."

Rock DJ

Roland Harris So it's really a Barry White song with different words and the boy Williams is a Port Vale fan but lets face it, it rocks the house right.

That's what we need at City. A thumping tune to get us going. To get the place heaving. A full Valley Parade, that beat. You know it makes sense.

Follow Dean Windass to Boro and listen to Pig Bag, a right ropy old tune at regular volume but blast it through the Riverside PA and it gets the crowd jumping. The A-Team is cool, old punk song are ok (if pre-music) but we need something that the whole family will get down to and Williams is the housewives favourite these days. Traditions are all well and good, but we need a pumping VP and Rock DJ would give us one.

Flower of Scotland

Mark Beetham For the tartan clad clan wearing Claret & Amber. May antagonise the St George followers in the crowd.

One Step Beyond or Basket Case

Mark BeethamTunes by Madness and Green Day respectively on account of the fact you have it to be to be one or the other to be a city fan. Mark warns that the former may induce some of the unbalanced to regress.

Good Riddance (The Time Of Your Life) or Nice Guys Finish Last

Michael Wood On a Green Day theme. The latter is a self explanatory two fingers to the critics while the former would have made the perfect sign off tune for the Premiership.