SAM Walker could become the first City keeper for nine years to keep five successive league clean sheets.

The January recruit has gone nearly seven hours since his last concession at Swindon.

Consecutive shut-outs against Wimbledon, Wrexham, MK Dons and Sutton have provided the base for the Bantams to revive hopes of still being involved in the play-off equation.

Notts County, League Two’s top scorers averaging just over two goals a game, will provide a threat to that record.

But another blank for Walker at Valley Parade this weekend and City’s number one would equal a run last set by Ben Williams in 2015.

Williams enjoyed a record-breaking campaign that year by setting a club record of 22 clean sheets as the Bantams reached the League One play-offs in Phil Parkinson’s final season.

In fact, Williams kept 27 in all – with five in FA Cup ties as City ensured quiz-question status by bowing out in the third round on penalties in a replay with Bury without conceding a single goal along the way.

His five league shut-outs on the bounce against Millwall, Blackpool, Crewe, Scunthorpe and Coventry – a Valley Parade game watched by two would-be German buyers – came in a staggering run of seven in all competitions as he blanked non-league Aldershot in two FA Cup ties during the same period.

Williams had another block of four blanks between March and April of that season and ended the league campaign with three more – keeping seven clean sheets in the final nine games.

The best run from a City stopper since then came this time last year as Mark Hughes’ side put the accelerator down in their promotion push.

Harry Lewis registered four straight clean sheets in wins over Doncaster, Gillingham and Colchester and a goalless draw at Walsall.

There have been a few three-in-a-rows in recent seasons – towards the end of Stuart McCall’s play-off chase in 2017, under Gary Bowyer around Christmas in 2019 – when City conceded just once in six games – and for caretakers Mark Trueman and Conor Sellars in their honeymoon period behind closed doors a year later.

Lewis also kept a hat-trick of clean sheets in a row in November and December in Graham Alexander’s first league wins at the helm against Accrington, Forest Green and Gillingham.

That followed the four-goal salvo in the first half at Notts County. Now the Magpies stand in the way of his successor between the sticks recording a notable feat.