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Friday, February 03, 2012

BBC H&W at 12 Noon on Sunday

On Sunday at 12 noon, BBC Hereford and Worcester will have an hour long programme on Hereford United's famous FA Cup run from the 1971/72 season.

Introduced by Trevor Owens, the programme will be on all its frequencies and the internet.

On 5 February 1972, 12 players from a non-league football club in sleepy Herefordshire took on one of the biggest clubs in the country in first division Newcastle United.

What happened over the next 120 minutes was to ensure their names would forever be a part of Hereford United's history and, for some of them, FA Cup history.

The non-leaguers beat Newcastle United two-one on a mud heap of a pitch to create the greatest shock in FA Cup history, with one of the Hereford goals that day later being voted the goal of the century.

BBC Hereford and Worcester will tell the story of that cup run through the eyes of the players, journalists who covered the match and, most of all, the supporters - with some of the stories behind the headlines.

We'll hear how that result led to the current sports editor of the Hereford Times making his career choice, and how it led to another journalist incurring the wrath of the future England manager 'Gentleman' Ron Greenwood.

There was the fan who is still convinced Hereford's cup run only ended because he didn't have his lucky pre-match scone, and another who relied on the school vicar to push to the front of the queue to ensure he got a ticket.

There were prophetic parachutists and Bobby Moore's ruined designer shoes. Then, we'll hear how the club trainer filled the players' bath so he could stamp on the white shirts to get them clean in time for the replay, while a local steel company spray-painted the footballs to disguise the fact they had seen better days.

'Now Tudor's Gone Down For Newcastle' is part of the classic John Motson commentary in the lead up to the Hereford equalising goal.