Remember Bradford 87 (yes 87)?

I was there at Valley Parade with a few mates. Oh what a night! Paul Stewart particularly and David White were on fire with their pace and strength. I can still picture Stewart speeding towards us and finishing to make it 4-2. He was really good one on one. My glasses went flying a few yards forward onto the terrace as we bounced up and down for that 4th goal! We knew we had won then after so long. One of my most memorable away days because it broke the winless run and the spectacular nature of it.

We had to run for our train at Bradford and across platforms at Leeds for our connection home. Remember being quite out of breath! Happy days.
 
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Eds said:
I was there, hazy memory of blues being everywhere and a huge following despite us not winning away for ages. It was almost as if the longer the winless run went on more people wanted to travel so they could say they were there.
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I wasn’t there, still too young, but I have heard stories, and this being highlighted brings to mind the increasing attendance (often by non-citizens that have come from abroad) of San Marino games as their record international losing streak continued on… until recently.
 
At the time was a great result, definitely was there and I’m sure we went in a lada with Dunc Golding, Lee Hulme, Paul Newton, all Cheadle lads.
 
Sure I was there, one memory was that they kept us in then turned the bloody lights off as we were trying to get out of our stand down a metal and concrete staircase. Thought that was a bit daft at the time !
 
I was there too!! There was no sense of entitlement back then. When a win comes out of the blue, it’s sooo much more exciting.
It’s what keeps fans supporting poor sides up and down the country.
 
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Scaring Europe to Death said:
Strange how the attendance was higher in 87-88 than the crucial promotion decider the following season when City could easily have taken 10,000+ if allowed
Instead the West Yorkshire Police did everything in their powers to stop us from attending.
It's almost as though there had just been a football tragedy and they were still blaming the travelling supporters
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Think us being top of the league back then helped season after fell back down to our normal crap standard.

I actuallý went through one of our programmes at the start of the season and the club was over the moon at selling 2k season tickets !!!!!!!!!

Still great days glad i lived through it despite how crap my teamis and still are .............remember coming over to Maine Rd think it was the spurs games 1989 1-1 ...........cheap train ticket, paying in on the gate ........the amazing thing of getting the pink after the game and being totally blown at the technology of a full match report and the full time score init after ...............i know your club have gone on to better things and time has moved on but thank god i saw them days as well
 
Yes we went to this game don't remember much but do remember being in seats in stand side of pitch not in end as normal no idea why
 
Bantamgaz said:
Think us being top of the league back then helped season after fell back down to our normal crap standard.

I actuallý went through one of our programmes at the start of the season and the club was over the moon at selling 2k season tickets !!!!!!!!!

Still great days glad i lived through it despite how crap my teamis and still are .............remember coming over to Maine Rd think it was the spurs games 1989 1-1 ...........cheap train ticket, paying in on the gate ........the amazing thing of getting the pink after the game and being totally blown at the technology of a full match report and the full time score init after ...............i know your club have gone on to better things and time has moved on but thank god i saw them days as well
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I remember reading an article - it might’ve been in the Sunday Times and I think it was the weekend after this game - which stated that at the time there were only 2 teams in the whole Football League pyramid who were regularly selling out their home games that season. One was Liverpool and the other was…..Bradford! That might seem strange to younger posters but attendances were very poor in the 80s compared to the present day and sell out crowds weren’t very common. United were getting the biggest crowds but most weeks they weren’t selling out.
 
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On a related note, does anyone remember our near 5-year wait for a top flight away win on a Saturday? It ran from that win at Spurs in January 1986 and finally ended over Christmas 1990 when we won 3-1 at Forest. Cue blues at the City Ground singing “5 years, we’ve only waited 5 years!”
 
M18CTID said:
It was before I started doing away games but yes, I remember Bradford were top at the time and thinking we didn't have a prayer of winning. I recall listening to Piccadilly for this one but I think it was limited to score updates and going over to Brian Clarke after each goal rather than full commentary.
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87/88 was my first full season watching City home and away. I saw a lot of games that season,but wasn't at Bradford. At the time ,it was a big match as they were top of the league, I'm not sure how we suddenly decided to turn up that night, I was a amazed at the final score, Paul Stewart was a powerhouse centre forward for us,brilliant finishing on the night,scoring with the outside of his right foot whilst running at full speed,Quality.
 
Was there my 2 mates was in away end because they had tickets but I went in the home end behind goal we decided to meet after game at pub up the hill, a very enjoyable evening watching the strippers doing there job
 
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