Bradford are making progress on and off the filed under Rahic, their German owner

As the former finance director of one of the world’s biggest companies, Bradford City’s co-owner Edin Rahic knows a thing or two about economics. So, when he promises that tickets will cost £1 should the League One club reach the Premier League, it is no idle boast.

Rahic arrived in English football last year fired with a missionary zeal. The first German to have taken the plunge into ownership in the English league, he is spreading the gospel of affordable tickets and the economies of scale that accompany it.

In some ways the approach is blindingly obvious: he has targeted 20,000 fans paying the current £149 to watch the Bantams next year and that would bring in the same money as 15,000 paying £199. However,