 He would swing hard at the ball with his right foot and dummy the player facing him by kicking the ball with the outside of his left.Despite the quality of their midfield, year after year Stoke narrowly clung on to their top-flight status.Improvements to the Victoria Ground in 1903 cost £2,000 swallowing the club's already dwindling finances and so the board agreed to sell their best players with Bradley poised to join Plymouth Argyle in 1905.