Stuart McCall makes his FA Cup debut as City boss on Saturday insisting: This competition still feels special.

McCall's men face Chester in the second part of their Valley Parade double-header.

He wants to see them bank another home win and make progress in a cup he believes retains its traditional magic.

McCall wrote his name in FA Cup history as the first substitute to score twice in a final, netting a double for Everton against Liverpool in 1989 - only to see Ian Rush match that and bag the extra-time winner.

"It seems that long ago it was in black and white," laughed McCall. "It's good for my family to look back on but I remember being absolutely gutted at the time because we'd lost the game.

"I was always down more as a team player than an individual so nobody expected me to score two. But Rushy came on for John Aldridge and did the same thing - I would rather we'd won 2-1 and I hadn't scored.

"But there's only three players who have scored two from the bench - myself, Rushy and Ian Wright. There was a lot surrounding that game coming straight after the Hillsborough disaster and people were looking for a good final."

McCall has not been involved in the first round since 1984 when he helped City thump non-leaguers Tow Law Town 7-2. But he reckons the FA Cup buzz is there even at this early stage.

"The FA Cup has still got that aura about it. In the first round it's big for the non-league teams and those in our division; the next round is more magical still and then you get to when the big sides come in which adds even more spice.

"You have to go back such a long time to when Bradford last had a good cup run. There was the Everton game and that great goal from Chris Waddle and we beat Tottenham in the League Cup but it hasn't happened for a long, long time.

"It would be great for everyone if we could go on a bit of a run again as well as the revenue you would get from that."

City have been knocked out in the second round for the past two seasons, going down in extra-time at Millwall a year ago.

They drew first blood against Chester on Tuesday, inflicting a first away defeat of the season on the visitors and McCall is ready for the inevitable backlash.

"They are a good, effective side as we saw and they will be out for revenge. But we've got to concentrate on ourselves and make sure everything we do goes according to plan.

"Having won the other night we want to put a few results together. I don't want that to be a one-off but the start of an undefeated run for us."

Chester boss Bobby Williamson was sore about both City goals in midweek. He claimed Eddie Johnson fouled Laurence Wilson in the build-up to Omar Daley's opener and Alex Rhodes ran the ball out of play before scoring the second.

Williamson said: "I feel that on our day we're a better team than Bradford but we've got to prove that. That's our challenge for Saturday.

"I don't think Bradford have any outstanding players and I'd like to think I have seen enough to tell me that we can beat them in the FA Cup. I think we can beat any team in our division if we play as well as we can do.

"If we play like we did in the first half then we won't go through. But if we play like we did in the second half for 90 minutes then I'll be very confident that we can progress."

McCall added: "The Chester bench thought the ball had gone out of play before Alex's goal. But you couldn't really tell and we've had that twice this season going the other way against Wrexham and last week in the Brentford game.

"It's going to be interesting because both teams played two or three different systems in 90 minutes on Tuesday so we can switch it round."

Chester have injury doubts over John Murphy and Richie Partridge, who both suffered knocks.

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