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Bradford Town FOLLOW US ONLINE TWITTER.COM/FOOTYFOCUSMAG Bradford Town FOOTBALL CLUB Bradford Town FC is based on Trowbridge Road in Wiltshire and their first team currently competes in the Premier Division of the Western Football League. They are led by the team of President Les Stevens and Chairman Mark Hodkinson and the club is progressing well under their guidance. First established in 1992, the club has gone on to put together a history of which they have every right to be proud and are now an important part of the local community. The current group of players will be looking to build on past successes over the coming years. At first team level the team enjoyed a positive season last time around as they put together a record of seventeen wins, eleven draws and ten defeats from their thirty-eight matches. This saw them finish in 7th place in the league with sixty-two points on the board. 36 Issue 86 This should provide them with a solid platform from which to build during the off-season. As long as they are able to retain their current group of players and can perhaps make one or two quality additions they should be in with a good chance of pushing further up the league in the new campaign. One of the highlights of the team’s performances last season was the attacking brand of football that they were able to produce. This was reflected by the fact that they found the back of the net seventy-eight times in the league alone at a rate of more than two per game. This will certainly have meant that any supporters attending their matches will have been well entertained and should encourage more of the local community to get behind the side in the future. This in turn has the potential to provide them with a valuable source of additional revenue which is particularly important in the current financial climate. Bradford Town FC is not a club to focus solely upon their senior set up however and this is reflected by the fact that they also have a thriving youth section. This part of the club looks to provide young players