BRADFORD City joint-chairman Julian Rhodes has never been one to seek the limelight and is happy to stay in the background. But he found the opportunity to poke fun at his Chelsea-supporting taxi driver too hard to resist.

He laughed: “We were driving back to the station on Sunday and I just happened to ask if he was a Chelsea fan.

“The driver went off cursing and swearing about them losing to a League One team at home, so I had to tell him that I was the chairman!

“He actually took it very well and we had a laugh about it. Afterwards, when we got to the station he asked if we’d pose for a photo together so he could tell his friends ‘as if it couldn’t get any worse, I’ve got their chairman in the back...’ It was that kind of weekend!”