Simon Parker's opinion on his 17 Bradford City bosses

Really enjoyed reading these articles. They provide an interesting peep behind the curtain. Colin Todd stands out as a particularly nice bloke and there was a lovely comment from a former city employee saying about how supportive he was of non-playing staff, and always took pains to include them in the same way as players, during the challenging periods of administration.

 

This is very honest about Simon Grayson, always found him pretty vanilla, Parker clearly not a fan! -

SIMON GRAYSON
Club secretary Mark Harrison sounded apologetic as he conveyed the bad news.

“The manager has asked me to tell you that he hasn’t got time to take any calls during the week.”

I had been told that Simon Grayson was a dream to work with for the local media. Clearly, that was not the case at City.

He had announced that the club were lucky to have a Championship manager in charge and that seemed to be his attitude to dealing with the press. The Bantams version of Grayson had that air of arrogance.

The form was hardly Championship during his short tenure – his best quotes came after an absolutely-woeful spanking by Blackpool – and I wasn’t too upset to see him decline the offer to stay on.

He obviously felt the job was a step down from where he should be – and hasn’t been since.

 

Another example of GA being a “people person” !

 

Quite enjoyed reading his favourite 25 games as well. Brought back some memories!

 

How do you remove the paywall? I know, i know, should know…….

 

Getting out your credit card is the easiest way.

 

Never!

 

Cheers!

 

Good reads. Thanks.
For some reason I didn’t get a paywall. I just clicked on the links and read both articles.

 

I’m probably in a minority but I have a lot of fond memories of the Colin Todd era.

 

Paste the URL into printfriendly.com

 

Bridge Wilkinson with JJ and Holmes on the wing and Windass up front. Really good attacking side until it all went wrong. Probably the best spell during our steady decline post prem.

 

And a young Nathan Doyle on loan at right back.
Letting JJ and Windass go was a disaster.

 

VPN set to USa

 

Sold to pay January’s rent

 

Only £5 for 5 months and help support the only written media that has any real interest in Bradford City. Once the T&A goes there won’t be much news about City. The National papers used to have local editions which covered Yorkshire football with reasonable match reports,now it’s all Premier league news.

 

In what way? One of our more negative managers!

 

Then auto renews at a fiver a month.