Bradford Park Avenue's FA Cup first-round clash against Bristol City on Sunday (1pm) has brought memories flooding back from the days when the city boasted two Football League clubs.

Avenue take on the Second Division club in a mouth-watering all-ticket clash which manager Trevor Storton believes could provide an upset.

Tickets are being snapped up by regularly supporters and fair-weather fans - and commercial director Paul Grayson hopes the cup run will re-ignite interest in the UniBond Premier club.

"We have sold more than half of our allocation but even if Bristol do not sell all theirs, we will not be able to put them on sale because of segregation," said Grayson.

Bristol have been given 865 tickets and are giving season-ticket holders the chance to buy first.

Fans in Bradford can buy tickets from the Horsfall Stadium social club between 6 and 8pm tomorrow evening and at times to be announced later in the week.

Sunday will be the 21st time the two clubs have met - the series of matches starting in the 1911-12 season and finishing in 1963 when Avenue dropped back into the old Fourth Division.

Statistics show that Avenue won eight of the meetings and City nine.

The Telegraph & Argus has been provided with a programme from Avenue's Third Division game with Bristol City, played on September 29, 1962.

The programme cost four old pence and in the Avenue line-up were Jimmy Scoular, Don McCalman and a certain bustling Rodney Green, who was to later become a Bradford City favourite.

Bristol City had England international John Atyeo in their side - a fearsome striker.

Avenue lost the game 5-2. Later in the season they lost the away game 4-2 but by then Kevin Hector had burst on to the scene and was quickly establishing himself as a rare goal-scoring talent.

Hector was to go on to score more than 100 league goals for Avenue and then for Derby County.

Avenue have had some magic moments in the FA Cup.

In the 1919-20 season, they reached the quarter-finals knocking out Nottingham Forest (3-0), Castleford Town (3-2) and Notts County (4-3) before crashing out to Chelsea 4-1 at Stamford Bridge. That season they were Yorkshire's most successful club in the League finishing 11th in Division One.

In the 1947-48 season, they knocked mighty Arsenal out of the competition at Highbury in front of 48,000 spectators with a Billy Elliott goal.

The following season the highest-ever attendance for a Bradford match was the 82,771 who packed into Maine Road to see Avenue draw 1-1 with Manchester United in the FA Cup fourth round. United won a second replay 5-0.