ANDY Halliday plans his own Stamford Bridge sob story if it helps strengthen his case to stay with City.

The loans of both Halliday and Francois Zoko are up after this afternoon’s clash at Yeovil.

The Middlesbrough midfielder is eager to prolong his time with the Bantams – and avoid the heartache of missing out on next week’s FA Cup fairytale at Chelsea.

Halliday admitted: “I’d be crying if something doesn’t happen now after putting Millwall out of the FA Cup and getting that game against Chelsea.

"Let’s not look too far ahead, we’ve got Yeovil first and we want to push on in the play-off positions with more points.

“It's for Middlesbrough and Bradford to work out obviously. I’ve wanted to keep in the background and just concentrate on the football.

“But I think Middlesbrough know that I want to stay and hopefully Bradford want to keep me. We’ll see what happens after the weekend.”

The gritty Glaswegian has started 13 games in his three-month stint at Valley Parade and bagged his second goal on Wednesday night.

After finishing off a cross from Filipe Morais, Halliday revealed it had been a long while coming following a string of squandered scoring opportunities.

“I really, really wanted to get a goal,” he added. “I see myself as a midfield player who can chip in with goals.

“I’ve had a lot of chances since I’ve been here. I’ve taken some stick for that as well.

“So I’m really glad I put that one away and hopefully it’s the start of a wee run for me now.”

City turned the Millwall replay into a total mismatch with their dominant display. That might have come as a shock to some against Championship opponents but Halliday was not surprised.

“ You’d think (it would be harder) against a Championship team second time round but it was the exact opposite once we got a taste of what they were about and how we were.

“If you match up both teams, I don’t think I’d swap many of their players for ours.

“We agreed after the game at The Den that we never put in anywhere near as good a performance as we could have, even though we should have won there.

“Wednesday night was as comfortable as we allowed it to be.

“Don’t get me wrong, the ten men helped that in the second half when the tempo slowed down but we were still creating chance after chance. It was a case of how many.

“Let’s not disrespect Millwall, they are a Championship club, but we certainly fully deserved it.”

City came flying out of the blocks in both ties against the Lions and Halliday believes that is the template to maintain their play-off push in the league.

“The way we’ve been in our unbeaten run is that we’ve started well at high intensity and then as the game warms up, our quality just takes care of itself.

“I think the way you start matches, especially in this league, is very important. We’ve done that since I came here.

“There are no easy games at Valley Parade and we have to show teams that from the start.”