In an article for the Daily Telegraph from 2001, Ricky George remembers:
I have some wonderful memories of the FA Cup. On Monday, Feb 7, 1972, two days after Hereford United's famous third-round victory over Newcastle United, Billy Meadows (Hereford's centre-forward) and I were invited into the old Evening News offices in Fleet Street to listen to the fifth-round draw with the late Victor Railton, the newspaper's football writer.
Incredibly, little Hereford from the Southern League were in the hat for the last 16. We were still to play West Ham in the fourth round but those ties had already been completed two days before. Hereford's third-round replay against Newcastle had been postponed so many times that it was played on the day of the fourth round.
"Huddersfield Town will play West Ham United or Hereford United," said Radio Two's much loved and sadly missed Bryon Butler. Not the most glamorous of ties, but it didn't matter, the excitement and interest created by our win against Newcastle was reaching epic proportions up and down the country, and all over the world, because this was the Cup.
The competition, which had begun 100 years before when 2,000 spectators watched Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 1-0 at the Kennington Oval, had once again thrown up a story to fire the nation's imagination.
"The FA Cup means glory, glamour and excitement and what's more, it is instant." So wrote the legendary Newcastle centre-forward Jackie Milburn, the man who, in the final of 1955, scored the quickest goal in a Wembley final after just 45 seconds to put the Magpies on the road to a 3-1 victory over Manchester City.
Hereford didn't get to play at Huddersfield in the fifth round. We went out of the Cup in a replay at Upton Park where, in front of 42,000 people, a hat-trick from Geoff Hurst ended our historic journey. Even 30 years later, the memories of that period still bring tears to my eyes.
The picture of a ticket for the Huddersfield game came from Ron Parrott.
"Everything was a round behind and Huddersfield had to print the ticket for the fifth round before knowing the outcome of the fourth," Ron told BN.
"It's a bit of a collector's piece really because it's the only time the Club have ever "appeared" in the fifth round!"
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