But it needed a late brace by substitute Steve Torpey plus a Michael Carr thunderbolt to secure the Rebels their second high-scoring triumph of the Bank Holiday weekend after they'd twice allowed the visitors to fight back from a goal down.
First Lee Neville (24 mins) and then Adam Jones (45) headed FC in front, only for Bradford to reply through Michael Duckworth and Richard Marshall.
Torpey finally netted the winner when he coolly converted a 79th minute penalty after skipper Mike Norton had been upended before he and Carr added further gloss to the result.
Garry Flitcroft's Chorley stay top despite suffering their first defeat in sinking 2-1 to visiting Marine, while Northwich move up to second following a 3-1 home win over Ashton United.
Altrincham's stuttering start in Blue Square Bet North under Lee Sinnott continued as they surrendered a two-goal advantage in being held 2-2 by Guiseley at Moss Lane.
But it could have been worse for Alty, who led 2-0 through Damian Reeves (seven mins) and Shaun Densmore (26) only to see the visitors draw level by the break, as they had to see out the final 25 minutes with only 10 men following Anthony Danylyk's dismissal for a second bookable offence.
Curzon Ashton leapfrogged Lancaster to the top of Evo-Stik North while sending neighbours Mossley sliding to the foot of the table with Kristian Dennis's hat-trick helping them to a sixth successive victory in a 4-0 romp at Seel Park.
Woodley were comfortable 3-0 winners at Radcliffe and Salford drew 1-1 at Prescot, but Trafford lost 3-2 to Witton Albion at Shawe View.
Ally Pickering's New Mills maintained their two-point lead at the Evo-Stik South summit with Ashley Stott scoring twice as they came from behind to beat Stamford 2-1 at Church Lane. Tweet
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FC United and Evostik League officials met with Chorley Football Club and Lancashire Police earlier today to discuss matchday arrangements for this coming Saturday’s match at Victory Park.
The information given at the meeting has been discussed by the FC United board but we have regrettably refused to accept an allocation of tickets for the game. The League and Chorley FC have been informed of our decision.
We were informed on August 17th that the game had been designated all ticket with a kick off time of 11:30am and that FC United had been restricted to an allocation of 520 tickets.
We have spent the last two weeks trying unsuccessfully to understand the reasons behind the decisions taken and obtain more information about ticketing arrangements. Chorley FC were due at Gigg Lane last weekend to sell tickets prior to our game against Rushall Olympic but when we failed to get satisfactory answers to our concerns that offer was withdrawn.
Matters were given a full airing this afternoon but with the game just a few days away there is nothing that can be done to address our remaining concerns at such short notice
If we had been involved in discussions about the matchday arrangements at an earlier stage and had been given full information at an earlier date then we are sure matters could have been resolved. Unfortunately it has not been possible to resolve the problems for this game. We have been grateful for the support and assistance from the League and we have resolved to work with them to ensure that lessons are learnt for the future.
So where is the comment section on the "Rebel Reds opt to keep travelling army in check" story MEN? You might want to hear the real story not the version fed to the media.