Bradford City's home clash with Bolton Wanderers has been put back 22 hours and will now be televised live on Sky.

The potentially mouth-watering clash will be an early indication as to City's chances next season as Bolton were only relegated from the Premiership on the final day of 1997-98 campaign.

It is the Bantams' first televised home game since they beat Queens Park Rangers 3-0 on the final day of the 1996-97 season to avoid relegation.

The game had been scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 22 but will now be staged at Valley Parade a day later, kick off 1pm.

Chairman Geoffrey Richmond said: "We are very, very pleased to have such an early season game selected for Sky Television. Last season we were on television three times but all the games were away from Valley Parade.

"I understand that Sky have selected all the Nationwide games that they will show up until the end of October."

The clash also provides City's record signing John McGinlay with a chance to face his former club. Bolton fans still regard the Scot as a legend for his goalscoring feats with Wanderers..

He was a leading member of three promotion-winning sides at Bolton during his five-year stay and also played in the 1995 Coca-Cola Cup final. He scored 118 goals in 244 appearances after joining Bolton from Millwall.

The Scot moved to City in a record £625,000 deal back in November after being squeezed out of the Wanderers first team with the arrival of Dean Holdsworth and Peter Beardsley.

However his first season at Valley Parade was marred by injury and eventually he had to undergo an operation on his Achilles tendon.

McGinlay has since recovered from the operation and hopes to be fully fit in time for the start of pre-season training on June 29.

The Bolton game being televised will provide City with a welcome cash bonus as they will receive £40,000 from Sky as the home side while Bolton will receive half that fee.

The game will also provide a national audience with their first opportunity to see Stuart McCall since he returned to Valley Parade on a free transfer.

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