Can we play you every week?

Can we play you every week is a new book by Max Velody which is full of facts about every club in the Football League.

Below is their guide to Hereford United:

Bottom of League One: Hereford United

Chairman, majority shareholder, director, occasional coach. And manager. Let's hear it for Graham Turner, who pulled off a minor miracle of sorts in 2008 when he took Hereford to a second promotion in three years, pulling them from the Conference into England's third tier.

Turner was a reluctant owner. Formerly manager at Villa and Wolves, he arrived in 1995 with the club in the Fourth Division, led them to the play-offs in his first season, but saw the club relegated to the Conference the following year. It wasn't until the last few minutes of the last game of the season that the Bulls occupied bottom place and the big drop stunned the club.

So much so that the then shell-shocked chairman told reporters it was the worst day of his life, momentarily forgetting he had lost both his wife and daughter in the previous 12 months. Turner offered his resignation but it wasn't accepted; and soon afterwards he bought a majority shareholding to stop the club folding.

It was supposed to be a temporary arrangement but he's still there. The future of the club would have been so very different were it not for an FA Cup qualifying tie in 2001 against Dover Athletic. Hereford were in voluntary administration at the time; if they had lost the club would have gone under. A win took them into the first round and a tie against Wrexham, televised live on the BBC.

The TV payment for that game kept the Bulls afloat.

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