Pretty sure FA regs don't allow fans to even have a view of the pitch when buying alcoholic beverages... and that discourages drunken behaviour at football for sure rl It seems to be a bit of an annual event.

Just leave 2 massive holes in bradford, like we need mor of them...

City are fighting for their lives. One thing that I have heard though from City fans is the question of whether the current board have been looking hard enough for outside investment? I don't know. im certainly not a City fan but two successful sports teams would be beneficial to the City of Bradford as a whole. Not sure what the way forward is for both clubs but i certainly don't begrudge them using the Bulls and Odsal as a bargaining chip.

Seems to be enough negative press about the City anyway (anyone heard that doylum Pickles' comments today?) without infighting between sports fans in Bradford.

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At that rate he should hopefully explode around 2016.

That's actually so accurate, it's quite depressing.

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... neighbours

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... neighbours

More important than the City chat:

"Meanwhile, Hood confirmed the Bulls are currently involved in talks with overseas stars Heath L’Estrange and Brett Kearney over potential new deals."

I don't think the City fan base is ever really going to be happy with moving to Odsal, there's just many memories tied up in Valley Parade. I'm not really a City fan (although I guess they are 'my team') but I was there on the day of the fire in 1985, and fully appreciate the attachment to the site.

And I'm pretty sure that many Bulls fans aren't going to want to abandon Odsal for Valley Parade. Partly its memories and the tradition, and partly the unsuitability of the Valley Parade location and surroundings. Even though it would be far more convenient for me personally, I would still rather stay at our historic home rather than 'move in' with City.

Surely, given the 'issues' with both grounds, the obvious thing would be leave BOTH sites and start again (like Hull, Huddersfield, Wigan) on a fresh site with a purpose-built 20K seated stadium. Somewhere near the M606 would be an ideal location for transport links.

Of course it would need a fully committed, visionary and energetic local authority to grab hold of this and drive things forward. And that's where the thing starts to hit the buffers

It would be great, if only for regularly bringing people into the city centre, but there just isn't the space there. It's a big hole but I'm not sure it's big enough.

They could flatten Little Germany & put car parking there? I've never forgiven them for the war you know.

Oddly enough, using Google maps and a BIC pen top on the screen for measuring, (which means I have to allow margin for error of say 10%) - the hole in the ground, and the whole of Odsal stadium from fence to fence, are pretty much exactly the same size, shape and orientation.

This being so, why can't we just get a helicopter, lift and drop the ground a couple of miles down the road, and job done?

Cos first you'd have to drop a car park. And then drop the stadium on top of that.

Though I suppose you could knock the job centre down with all the bounteous employment that will flow from having a park in the city centre and put the car park there.

Maybe a park and ride could be put in on some of the land at somewhere like Odsal maybe...