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Sunderland and Bradford City seem worlds apart now – with the Black Cats are enjoying their third consecutive season at Championship level following promotion from League One in 2022 and currently on course for a return to the Premier League.
On the other hand, the beginning of the 2024/25 Football League season marked Bradford’s sixth consecutive League Two campaign after they suffered relegation from the third tier in 2019. Graham Alexander’s side are hoping to return to the third tier this term, however, and are in the play-off mix.
It seems difficult to believe now that the two clubs locked horns during the 2018/19 League One season, although while the Black Cats landed a play-off spot that year, the Bantams finished bottom of the table and are yet to bounce back.
While the North East outfit and their West Yorkshire counterparts don’t boast much in common nowadays, what both sets of supporters can agree on is that they enjoyed the services of striker Charlie Wyke during their respective spells in League One in recent years.
The forward is a Middlesbrough academy product, but he never made an appearance at senior level for his hometown club and instead endured loan spells with Kettering Town, Hartlepool United and AFC Wimbledon throughout the early 2010s.
But it was not until he made a permanent switch to Carlisle United in January 2015 that the target man established his prolific tendencies.
During the latter half of the 2014/15 League Two campaign, Wyke produced a decent return of six goals and one assist in just 17 appearances and established a sturdy platform which he would eventually build from.
He then went on to score 15 goals in 38 appearances across all competitions for the Cumbrian outfit during the subsequent 2015/16 season, including 12 goals in 34 fourth-tier outings, which he further complemented by creating two assists.
But the forward’s most impressive Carlisle days were still yet to come as he bagged an impressive 14 goals in 26 League Two appearances during the first half of the 2016/17 season.
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