Denaby Utd – Denaby 4 Bradford City Res 1 – Bradford City “yorked” 4-1

September 1956

South Yorkshire Times September 8, 1956

Bradford City Reserves “yorked” 4-1

As Cliff Martin crashed in a speculative 35 yarder at Tickell Square on Saturday night I heard an involuntary “core! That boy Martin doesn’t miss a thing!”

If you can forget Westfield Lane – and United must be still wondering where that landslide came from – that has been the secret of Denaby in this season of season.

Bradford City reserves were “yorked” 4-1 after United had held a 25 seconds lead for 63 minutes, and once again very little went begging. Nor is it any pushover. Bradford were a farce, useful combine. Their forward line was slippery as Quicksilver and the defence saw to it that they were kept on the move. But so often it was one move too many – a failing which, happily, belongs to the past at Tickell Square so far this season.

This all attack policy had on Saturday night produced 21 goals in their first five Midland league matches, and with the exception of left half Gillott, who scored one of the four goals on Saturday, they have been evenly shared – five each to Egan and Martin, four to Holmes and three each to Lambert and Clark.

Twenty Five Seconds

Martin will score few snappier goal than that which gave United their first half lead. A touch to Egan from the kick-off, a faint by Egan, astute positioning by Martin, and the centre forward had the ball again, had rounded Currie and beaten an astonished Sharman almost before the sound of the whistle had died away. It had taken 25 seconds – exactly!

The rest of that half was extremely even. It features some excellent work by both defences against lines who snapped up everything that was going, but Williamson was never in trouble and it was United who produced the two scoring chances.

After 63 minutes the roar went up again for out of the hat the admirable Gillott produced one of those longshots of which is always capable, and the first thing we saw was a flying leap by Sharman – too late to save a goal, United were two up.

In the 75th minute Hanson made it 21 but it was merely a signal for action for in the 80th and 81st minute Clarke and Martin put the issue well beyond City’s reach.