he left to take over at Championship side Preston North End.<\/a><\/p>\nDuff, who has also had spells at Cheltenham Town, Barnsley, Swansea City and Huddersfield Town, was sacked by the Chairboys after a year in charge last month.<\/p>\n
The Bantams are second in League One, level on 16 points with leaders Plymouth Argyle who have played a game more.<\/p>\n
They travel to League Two Rotherham in the EFL Trophy on Tuesday (19:00 BST) before hosting Leyton Orient in the league on Saturday (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n
City see Duff as being capable of continuing the high-energy style of play built around a 3-4-3 formation the team played under Alexander, which took them from League Two to the top end of League One.<\/p>\n
The former Northern Ireland international, who was a team-mate of Alexander’s at Burnley during their playing careers, led Cheltenham to promotion from League Two in his first managerial role.<\/p>\n
After guiding them to their highest-ever EFL finish of 15th in League One in 2021-22 he left to take over Barnsley.<\/p>\n
The Reds finished fourth in the third tier but lost to South Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off final and Duff was subsequently appointed manager of Championship Swansea.<\/p>\n
His spell in South Wales was unsuccessful and he was sacked after just six months in charge in December 2023.<\/p>\n
He returned to Yorkshire with Huddersfield Town in May 2024 but was let go in March the following year after four defeats in five games.<\/p>\n
Wycombe appointed him as Michael Dodds’ successor last September after a winless start to the season and he led them to an 11th-placed finish but was sacked last month<\/a> after three draws and two defeats in their first five league games of 2026-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford City are set to appoint former Wycombe Wanderers boss Michael Duff as their new manager. The 48-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792706","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=792706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}