A Load of Bull
Peter Gilbert 6.12.99
After our little slip up at the weekend it will be nice to go and do something different which is what we will be doing on Saturday when we play Hereford away in the third round of the FA Cup.
I have vivid memories of Hereford in the FA Cup - who could forget them and their giant killing exploits of the early '70's. They in fact provided one of the most spine chillingly emotional football moments when they played against Newcastle United in this competition.
It was a wintry afternoon in Hereford when Newcastle Utd came to town to do the business and proceed in the FA Cup competition.   Newcastle then had stars a plenty as they do now with a goal scoring machine who played for England who was past his best,as they do now.   Hereford somehow sensed a chink in the armour and they went for it.
The winning goal came in injury time, the pitch was a quagmire in the centre which was a great leveller on the day.   As I recall Hereford had a winger called Telfer, somewhat tall for a winger but his gangly running and dribbling across the treacherous surface had been a handful all afternoon.  Tudor the Newcastle 'keeper had looked ill at ease all afternoon and the defenders were slithering about senseless(some things never change) .  The crowd that lined the pitch were held back by a bit of string, I remember some people had brought camp chairs to sit on, it was the age of innocence in football, wonderland, for what was about to happen was truly wonderful.
Telfer wriggled down the wing, crossed a ball which was hacked away by Moncur. The ball squelched to a halt in midfield but the relentless Hereford players who had got into injury time with scores level at 1-1, lifted themselves for one last effort and they ran again at the Geordie boys.   Rikki George played a one two just outside the box and he smashed the ball that flew like an arrow into the top corner of the net.   Pandemonium broke out as the crowd jumped the rope and ran joyously on to the pitch to share the emotion of the moment with their heroes. There was no nastiness, it was all good natured and personally I think it's the most memorable FA Cup moment ever. For me it was far more note worthy than any Wembley Final I have ever seen and the name Hereford Utd is always brought up whenever the FA Cup is mentioned simply for that moment, and you can guarantee 'that goal' will be shown over and over during the course of the next few days and quite right too.

However what we are hoping for is a quiet afternoon in pleasant rural surroundings, watching a football match played on a lush grassy surface with us winning with imperial style and a little foxy craft.
Thank you and good night..................but beware........lightning can strike twice.