NewsBradford City announce closure of stadium – Allowing staff to decamp to St James’ ParkI am loving the way that Bradford City are so fully embracing their trip to play Newcastle United. A 52,000+ capacity crowd will include almost 5,000 Bradford City fans. A nice touch as well this, Bradford City closing down their entire stadium at 1pm on Wednesday, allowing all of their staff who wanted to, to head to St James’ Park. Amongst the comments from Bradford fans on BBC Sport after this 3-1 away win at Cardiff:‘Great statement from Bradford. “I’ve never been on the pitch at St James’ Park so to do that would be unreal.