Officials Review vs Leeds United

Andy Taylor is in no way a good luck charm for the Bantams. He has taken charge of Bradford City games now on four separate occasions. Last night's visitors have lost three of them and drawn one.

In fact, his first game in charge of the boys in Claret & Amber was also in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in 2006/07, a game we lost 2-1 to Scunthorpe and in which Matt Clarke made his debut. And was of course sent off.

There must have been the temptation for the Lancastrian official to do something similar last night but he kept his reds in his pocket and took a fairly sensible approach towards the bookings he made given the tinder box environment of Elland Road last night.

He didn't endear himself to the Bradford City support however with his dubious consistency in the application of rules and the major talking point of the match - the disallowed goal.

Of course in that respect he can only perform as well as his assistants and whilst few Bradford City supporters would suggest the penalty was completely devoid of merit they might also point to a couple of moments where the Bantams could have had spot kicks of their own. Whilst they might have been harsh they could as easily, or not, be given as the original handball offence.

And if those decisions hadn't got the 4,000 Bantams onside the disallowing of Omar Daley's goal was enough to ensure he received very little respect from the visitors. I haven't seen any replay and I was at the other end of the stadium but I find it difficult to believe that it is possible for Omar to have been offside when Frazer Richardson stopped the ball on the goal line and Omar Daley poked the ball home in a goalmouth scramble.

Still, no point crying over a match that would have been a nice bonus to win but not something that will define this season as successful, or not. But should we have Andy Taylor in charge don't expect the Bantams to emerge victorious!

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