A RECORD-breaking fourth tier crowd at Valley Parade - 23,381 - got the occasion and regal claret and amber performance that was thoroughly befitting.
BRADFORD CITY manager Graham Alexander and ultra-consistent right-back Brad Halliday have been shortlisted for EFL monthly awards in League Two for April.
So unloved is the Football League Trophy that normally going out of it produces a shrug of the shoulders at best, a sigh of relief at worst. Not when you are one game from Wembley, though.
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