Crowds of 20,000? No sweat if the entertainment is this good every week.

What a dream advert this was on the day that Julian Rhodes unveiled his latest ticket scheme to fill Valley Parade.

As the joint-chairman admits, this has not been a vintage campaign for the bumper home crowds; just six wins from 15 attempts before this classic.

But any doubts that current season-ticket holders may have about renewing next time will surely be washed away with performances like this.

City bagged their second win in four days after 90 pulsating minutes as open and exciting as any this season.

It takes two teams to make a contest and Rotherham played their full part. But for the posts, they could have gone back to South Yorkshire with at least a point - if not more.

City, though, will not worry about that after moving three points closer to the top half of the table - and the supporters lapped it all up.

Rotherham had made the brightest start and only the woodwork denied them a tenth-minute lead.

When Paul Heckingbottom was muscled off the ball it broke for Chris O'Grady, whose shot on the turn from the edge of the box left the unsighted Scott Loach motionless in the City goal. Fortunately the ball crashed against the inside of his left post and pinged across goal, leaving the home side breathing a huge sigh of relief.

City immediately seized on their good fortune by sensationally scoring twice in two minutes.

Rotherham caused their own downfall with the first as Dale Tonge sold fellow defender Ian Sharps criminally short with his backpass. Omar Daley was in between them in a flash, a little flick taking him beyond the stranded centre half into the penalty area.

The Jamaican had team-mates in support but his sights were fixed on goal and, as keeper Andy Warrington advanced, he thrashed the ball inside the far post. For a player whose finishing is not the steadiest, it was a quality effort.

City's fans were still cheering when their team went two up. Lee Bullock's ball over the top released Joe Colbeck on the right and he delivered the perfect low cross for Alex Rhodes to slide in his second goal of the week.

Rotherham could not cope with City's blistering pace and Daley instantly launched another assault through the middle. His pass sent Colbeck clear but, having nicked the ball wide of Warrington, the winger's touch let him down at the vital moment.

You could not take your eyes off the action as Rotherham hit back and should have halved the deficit straight away.

Marc Newsham's ball over the top sent O'Grady bursting clear and he left Mark Hudson with the simplest of tap-ins from five yards out - but the midfielder, who had scored on both his previous Valley Parade visits with Huddersfield, somehow clipped the post and the rebound landed in the arms of a relieved Loach.

Rotherham, though, did not have to wait long for their first goal and questions had to be asked how Ryan Taylor found himself totally unmarked in front of goal to receive Ian Ross's left-wing centre before beating the keeper from close range.

It was like watching a human Playstation game as both sides went at it gung-ho. The all-round cavalier approach made for cracking viewing for those in the stands, if not the dugouts.

The Millers had numerical advantage in the middle of the park with their three-man midfield but they were terrified of the speed that City could utilise from all angles when they attacked.

Rotherham's response had got them right back in the match and David Wetherall made a vital sliding block to take the sting out of O'Grady's shot.

Wetherall then got nudged at the other end to give City a free-kick in a useful position. The set-piece was stopped by the wall but Daley teed up Heckingbottom for a cross-shot that did not miss by much.

As the game see-sawed again, Danny Harrison was just as close for the visitors from 20 yards. It was that type of half.

But City were not finished. As half-time approached, Daley's twinkling feet bamboozled Sharps and Colbeck produced another juicy centre which Bullock greedily gobbled up, his downward header giving Warrington no chance.

There was no sign of anyone shutting up shop from the restart, with Harrison and Rhodes trading early shooting efforts. Then Eddie Johnson bent a free-kick over after Harrison clipped Daley in the D.

Rotherham were hunting a way back into the game and Loach plunged to his right to stop Taylor's skidding drive from creeping inside the post. Then the keeper beat away a useful cross from Ross and Newsham whisked one across goal as the chances kept on coming.

Rhodes and Colbeck were playing with the swagger from Saturday, giving Rotherham's full backs a torrid time. Surprisingly, Peter Thorne had not been able to cash in from their steady supply against a side he has scored regularly against through his career and his appeal for handball from a Rhodes corner with 20 minutes left fell on deaf ears.

Rhodes deserved his standing ovation five minutes later when he made way for Kyle Nix. The substitute must have been itching to get on against his home-town club, for whom his dad Peter had played in the late 1970s.

Daley received an equally big cheer from the fans as he was replaced by Willy Topp. The Jamaican, below par in recent weeks, had rediscovered his match-winning form.

Topp's first contribution was a defensive one, his presence doing enough to put off left back Marc Joseph from trying a first-time shot from O'Grady's lay-off as Rotherham continued to throw men forward in search of some sort of lifeline.

But City should have made it 4-1 nine minutes from time. Nix's inswinging corner was glanced across goal by Wetherall and struck Thorne at the back post before he had time to react, allowing Warrington to smother.

Rotherham then ensured yet another nail-biting climax when Ross crossed over the head of Heckingbottom and O'Grady dragged the ball back inside and beat Loach with a left-foot drive.

Memories of the last two home games came flooding back but Thorne should have buried any nerves when Colbeck put him a goal on a plate - yet somehow City's leading scorer scooped the ball over the gaping goal from no more than three yards out.

It was an incredible miss from a striker in red-hot form, having notched seven in the previous seven games, and Thorne must have been holding his breath when Hudson kicked thin air from a Rotherham corner a minute later.

Four minutes of added time cranked up the tension but this time there was no repeat of Bury or Rochdale. A rousing rendition of "City 'til I die" from the Kop showed how much the breathless fans had enjoyed what they'd seen.

TELEGRAPH & ARGUS

BRADFORD CITY	ROTHERHAM UNITED
34 Scott Loach	1 Andy Warrington
3 Paul Heckingbottom	2 Dale Tonge
5 David Wetherall	4 Danny Harrison
7 Omar Daley	5 Ian Sharps
8 Eddie Johnson	6 Graham Coughlan
10 Peter Thorne	10 Mark Hudson
11 Alex Rhodes	12 Marc Joseph
15 Joe Colbeck	15 Chris O'Grady
32 Lee Bullock	17 Marc Newsham
33 Ben Starosta	20 Ryan Taylor
35 Thomas Moncur	29 Ian Ross
SUBSTITUTES	SUBSTITUTES
2 Darren Williams	32 Richard O'Donnell
9 Barry Conlon for 10 (90)	8 Peter Holmes
18 Tom Penford	14 Adrian Pettigrew
22 Kyle Nix for 11 (75)	16 Jamie Yates for 17 (72)
23 Willy Topp for 7 (77)	25 Pablo Mills

MATCH OFFICIALS:
Referee:	D S McDermid
Assistant Referee:	C L Reeves
Assistant Referee:	J Waugh
4th Official:	P Graham

GOALSCORERS:
BRADFORD CITY	ROTHERHAM UNITED
Daley (15)	Taylor (29)
Rhodes (17)	O'Grady (84)
Bullock (44)
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DISCIPLINARY:
BRADFORD CITY	ROTHERHAM UNITED
Johnson (74)	Newsham (63)
	Joseph (90)
	Ross (90)
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