Quote: af "Partially inspired by a thread on TotalRL - who are the best Bradford-born players to play for Bradford?
Top of my head, it's Keith Mumby, followed by Leon. What other notables are there?
Any Bradfordians who never played for us?'"
Much as I regard Keith as my all time hero, I have to point out that I believe he was born in Durham, albeit that the family was an established Bradford family, and he was brought up in Bradford. I don't have a definitive source for this, but have seen it metioned in a couple of places, and I believe that he did once play for an "Other Nationalities" team that briefly appeared alongside Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria in the County Championship.
This is a topic I have thought about a few times before, especially given that we have a relatively high number of Bradfordians in the team at the moment (Kopczak, Halley, Sheriffe, Whitehead, Reardon). Even in earlier, less geographically-mobile times, I can think of few true Bradfordians to play for the club, though many Kiwis and Welsh. Even the iconically named B.Radford was, I believe, Welsh. Brian Noble is a good call, though.
As for Bradfordians who played elsewhere, how about Graeme Hallas?
