<TABLE cellSpacing=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=columbusColumnHeader><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" colSpan=2>Crewe 0</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" colSpan=2>Bradford 3</TD></TR><TBODY><TR class=matchSummary><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Date :</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Sat 19 Aug 2006 </TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Kick Off :</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">15:00 </TD></TR><TR class=matchSummary><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Venue :</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Alexandra Stadium </TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Attendance :</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">5274 </TD></TR><TR class=matchSummary><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Comp :</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Coca-Cola Football League One </TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Referee :</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">G Salisbury </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4></TD></TR><TR class=matchSummary><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" colSpan=4>Click Here For Detailed Match Stats </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4></TD></TR><TR class=matchSummary><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" colSpan=4>Goals :</TD></TR><TR class=matchSummary><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right colSpan=2><TABLE><TBODY></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" colSpan=2><TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Johnson 44 </TD></TR><TR><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Bridge-Wilkinson 52 </TD></TR><TR><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Johnson 57 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><DIV class=sponsorStripBottom style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(/javaImages/b2/e1/0,,~2941362,00.gif); WIDTH: 100%; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #adb3bc; TEXT-ALIGN: center">
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<P align=justify>Michael Jackson was top of the album charts with Thriller; Maggie Thatcher romped to a landslide election and Lester Piggott won a record ninth Derby on board Teenoso.<P align=justify>June 1983 also saw Crewe Alexandra appoint a new manager. <P align=justify>Much has changed in nearly quarter of a century since but, well over 1,000 games on, Dario Gradi remains in the Alex hot-seat.<P align=justify>Plenty of players have come and gone but the fact he is still the league's longest-serving manager shows that he has not got too much wrong.<P align=justify>Gradi got it right again when he borrowed Eddie Johnson from Manchester United for the whole of last season. In a relegation campaign, the stocky forward was one of the few hits and his never-say-die attitude won over the fans.<P align=justify>But Gradi's failure to persuade Johnson to commit himself permanently to Gresty Road during the summer came back to bite him on the bottom.<P align=justify>Colin Todd, who was still a player at Derby when Gradi was their first-team coach, beat him to it for the striker's signature. And what a shrewd bit of business that looks to be.<P align=justify>Plenty of eyebrows were raised among fans when Todd snapped up Johnson ahead of the more proven scoring talents of Huddersfield-bound Luke Beckett. <P alig
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