In December 2012, Bradford City, a team that cost less than £10K to assemble, and then in danger of dropping out of the football league, wrote one of the most romantic chapters in the history of British sport when they met Arsenal, one of the elites of the game, in a competitive fixture.
The game represented not only a collision of football extremes, but economic circumstance. For Bradford, the contest symbolised a broader north-south divide.
So, led by former supermarket-shelf-stacker turned striker James Hanson, they set out to achieve the impossible.


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A Football Fairy Tale was written and produced by Rob Mulhern
Original idea - Joe Rawson, Sky News Radio Sports Editor
Special thanks to our contributors, James Hanson, Tim Thornton and Carl Smith.
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