{"id":782576,"date":"2026-09-25T21:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782576\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T21:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:42:17","slug":"graham-alexander-preston-north-end-closing-in-on-appointment-of-bradford-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782576\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Alexander: Preston North End closing in on appointment of Bradford boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has led the Bantams to the top of League One with five wins from their first seven games of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Scotland international took over at Valley Parade in November 2023 and won promotion from League Two in his first full season in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They finished fourth in League One in 2025-26 before losing to Bolton Wanderers in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alexander, who has also had spells in charge of Fleetwood, Scunthorpe, Salford, Motherwell and MK Dons, is contracted to the club until the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston host Millwall in their first game after the international break on Saturday, 10 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford&#8217;s next League One fixture is on 3 October at Reading with their game this weekend against Barnsley postponed because of international call-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has led the Bantams to the top of League One with five wins from their first seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}