David Syers’ cracking strike against Hereford last week was City’s quickest league goal of the season.

But did you also know that it was only the second time in League Two they have scored in the opening ten minutes since Peter Taylor took charge in February?

The other occasion, to save anyone the trouble of looking it up, was James Hanson’s second-minute opener in the 3-3 draw with Dagenham last season.

For those interested in such trivia, there is a new book out to satisfy the Bantams addict.

The fourth to be written by former T&A City reporter David Markham, ‘Bradford City Miscellany’ is a font of trivia, history and stats about the club.

Did you know, for example, that the FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Bristol Rovers in 1920 was blamed on an ill-advised trip to a chocolate factory on the morning?

Or that an ambitious ten-game European tour in 1914 was overshadowed by the constant drone of Zeppelins flying overhead from a neighbouring airbase?

The book is put together in a slightly higgledy-piggledy fashion and jumps backwards and forwards from era to era.

But for fans of titbits and City facts served up in bite-sized chunks, it makes for an easy read during the quieter Christmas periods.

* Bradford City Miscellany, Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd, £9.99.