When David Wetherall's goal against Liverpool on the final day of the 1999/2000 season prolonged Bradford City's Premiership status for a further year, few fans would have imaged that seven years later City would be plying their trade in the bottom tier of the Football League. After surviving in the top-flight against all odds, the City was buzzing as the ecstatic Bradford fans attempted to take in their team's achievements that season.

However, from the day that talented manager Paul Jewell resigned from his position at the club, the club's fortunes took a turn for the worst as City dropped through the divisions, slipping into administration twice along the way as financial difficulties came close to overshadowing on the field matters and, at one point, the club came within five minutes of closure.

When City sacked manager Colin Todd midway through the 2006/7 season as they looked destined to drop into the bottom tier of English football for the first time in twenty five years, the name of one man was on everyone's lips as the ideal candidate to halt the slide and restore the feel good factor around the club. Only one man could re-unite the clubs fans and restore harmony with the board, who many felt had sealed City's fate that season when they sanctioned the transfers of City's best two players, Dean Windass and Jermaine Johnson, during the January transfer window. That man was Stuart McCall.

This section of my site attempts to tell the story of Bradford's slide down the divisions and describes how the return of Bradford's prodigal son, Stuart McCall, reinstated belief and hope back into the City fans that good times may return to Valley Parade. Please click through the links below to read more.......