HAD enough of Christmas quizzes yet? Well, here’s one more poser for you to get the grey matter stirring again after all the excess.

Name the last City player to score on Boxing Day.

The answer, of course, should be Jack Payne at Sunderland two years ago.

Remember, the “equaliser” that clearly crossed the line before Jon McLaughlin hooked it back.

Yet somehow referee Darren England and his assistants missed what 46,000 other witnesses in that bumper Stadium of Light audience clearly spotted and waved play on.

So, the last Bantam to officially be credited with a Boxing Day goal was Paul Taylor in 2017 – and that was little more than a late consolation with his former club Peterborough three up and cruising at Valley Parade.

For a time of spreading good cheer, matches on one of the highlights of the football calendar have produced little joy in recent seasons.

Twelve months ago, a dour goalless struggle with Carlisle provoked some very vocal and crude criticism of Gary Bowyer’s style of play from a full away section.

The point stretched City’s unbeaten run to five games – but was greeted with derision from West Yorkshire folk who had dragged their hangovers 100 miles north to chilly Cumbria.

Many will have been among the large contingent trying to make themselves heard amid the north-east din at Sunderland the year before.

David Hopkin’s City came into that game flying after stringing back-to-back wins together for the first time.

After being robbed of a hard-earned reward by the less than eagle-eyed officials, they would bounce straight back with two more hefty victories to see in the new year. But the less said about what transpired in 2019 the better.

Boxing Day 2016 had seen over 21,000 flock to Valley Parade for a high-flying League One clash with leaders Scunthorpe.

A lively encounter saw plenty of close calls but no goals as City could not find the winner their efforts deserved.

But at least the fans had a game to enjoy – the season before saw a planned Boxing Day home encounter with Burton washed away by the floods that would ravage parts of the region.

So you have to go back to 2014 for the last time that City picked up all three points on December 26 in the numbing cold at Fleetwood.

Little did anyone know that Phil Parkinson’s men were warming up for their FA Cup headline-grabbing exploits in the second half of the season.

The magic of Chelsea was still a month away – an unappetising trip to Millwall the following week in round three appeared to offer a pretty firm barrier to any further progress.

City went into the Highbury clash with the Cod army in decent form – an unbeaten seven-game run ironically started by the come-from-behind FA Cup victory at Halifax in round one.

A late Scunthorpe equaliser six days earlier had not dampened growing talk of a play-off push.

Fleetwood had started the stronger but could not make first-half chances count.

Full back Danny Andrew went closest with a curling effort that just cleared the angle of post and bar. Stephen Dobbie and Josh Morris also threatened Jordan Pickford’s goal.

Jamie Proctor, like Morris a future Bantam, just failed to connect with Dobbie’s pull back as the hosts applied the pressure.

But Andrew was forced off injured before the break – and his absence proved pivotal.

Replacement Stephen Crainey looked rusty and was beaten for pace as Mark Yeates raced to the near post, looping the ball back for James Hanson to apply a simple header to score.

Proctor almost levelled after the break as his 25-yarder rocked against the woodwork.

Tempers were simmering and Parkinson pushed Conor McLaughlin after a sliding challenge on the touchline.

But as any sense of Christmas goodwill was fast disappearing, City grabbed the opportunity to cement their victory with a second.

This time it was Jon Stead leading the break along the left flank as Fleetwood’s defence was prised open.

His cross was left by Hanson but Filipe Morais arrived at the back post to thump the ball past scrambling keeper Chris Maxwell.

Six years on and we’re still waiting for another Boxing Day treat from the Bantams. Let’s see if they can deliver on the Wirral against Tranmere this afternoon.

FLEETWOOD: Maxwell, Jordan, Roberts, Andrew (Crainey 39), McLaughlin, Evans (Hitchcock 85), Morris (Haughton 60), Hughes, Sarcevic, Dobbie, Proctor.

CITY: Pickford, Darby, McArdle, Davies, Meredith, Halliday (Knott 71), Liddle, Yeates (Kennedy 81), Morais, Stead (Zoko 88), Hanson.

REFEREE: Chris Sarginson