Farsley Celtic 1, Bradford City 1: As Chris Newton's powerful drive nestled neatly behind Aidan Davison in the City goal, the cries of "are you watching Ashley Ward?" began.

And the jeer was coming from the Bantams fans and not from the supporters of the brave non-leaguers.

Following in the footsteps of millions before them, the City fans were moaning all ready.

The phoenix-from-the-flames style revival was only two days old and already the City fans were getting on the back of the big striker, whose penalty miss cost Bradford a pre-season win.

They paid their £5, they were entitled to their opinion and it was expressed very thoroughly and, at times, wittily from the terraces at Throstle Nest.

Ward, beginning his first game back from injury, lacked a bit of sharpness but boss Nicky Law was impressed with his early work.

But overall, Law was not happy with his side's performance in drawing 1-1 against Bradford's lower division neighbours.

"I don't think we did ourselves justice out there," said Law, clearly glad to be given the opportunity to talk football, not finances.

"We were a bit sloppy in the second half and didn't get the goals we should have done.

"It was a bright start and I thought we were in for another Bradford Park Avenue scoreline but it didn't work out like that.

"It was a big day for Farsley, who have been very hospitable to us, and good luck to them."

The game began in bright sunshine and with Danny Cadamarteri looking sprightly on the wing and, with the big centre-forward holding it up well, it looked to be another goal-fest for the Division One side.

Cadamarteri opened the scoring after nine minutes when his low drive took a sizeable deflection of the tormented Steve Ball at left-back and left Liam Sutcliffe with no chance.

That was it for the City scoring for the day despite the enormous number of crosses that came over.

Michael Standing was impressive again in midfield and David Wetherall, Andy Myers and Mark Bower all looked assured at the back.

There were as many first-half corners as there were goals against Avenue in mid-week but Ward was among those who failed to convert chance after chance.

Another bit of Cadamarteri trickery duped Ball into a rash challenge which resulted in a dubious penalty on the stroke of half-time.

Ward made a rod for his own back by knocking it wide, the source of most of the second-half Bantams banter.

Farsley came back into it with Newton's goal before the hour-mark, after which City squandered yet more chances.

Farsley Celtic: Sutcliffe, Place, Ball, L Gray, Henderson, Stabb, Beech, Watson, Blackstone, Newton, Freeman. Subs: Poole, Stevenson, Turner, Greaves, Dhariffe, Blair.

Bradford City: Walsh, Uhlenbeek, Myers, Jorgensen, Wetherall, Bower, Cadamarteri, Tod, Ward, Evans, Standing. Subs: Juanjo, Jess, A Gray, Emanuel, Davison, Gedman, Kearney, Fishlock.