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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Hereford United Discussed On Talksport


Talksport devoted ten or so minutes to the subject of Hereford United this evening.

After reminding listeners of the world famous victory over Newcastle United in 1972 watched by 'tens of thousands of people', the presenter stated that recent crowds had fallen to 'small numbers of hundreds'.

HUST vice-chairman Martin Watson was then interviewed.

"We now have a three man board which we haven't had for sometime.

"Andy Lonsdale who was previously chairman has finally joined the board.

"He had the curious position of being chairman of the football club but not actually of the company.

"Yesterday there was the news that the annual return for the company had not been submitted so Companies House put in a statutory notice because they hadn't put the paperwork in."

Asked if the club would fulfil its fixtures Watson replied that he didn't know.

"We've asked time and time again for a statement of clarity from the club.

"We currently have an owner who we don't know anything about.

"He's never made a public statement, never appeared at Edgar Street.

"We don't actually know if he genuinely exists.

"He bought the club from Tommy Agombar who was stopped from owning the club by failing the owners and directors test.

"And in the three months since that transfer happened, we haven't heard a peep from our new owner, we don't actually know who is in charge from day to day."

Watson was asked whether Hereford United needed to go out of business and become Hereford New Co.

"We're a Southern League side which played a game on Tuesday night in front of 239 people because the vast majority of fans are boycotting.

"The club is £1.5M in debt and nobody in their right minds would put that money into the club if they didn't have the club at heart.

"Realistically we are at the point that unless somebody rules with their heart over their head then the club has to go bust because it is the only option.

"This disaster as it stands has been many months in the making. The club was thrown out of the Conference at the start of June after promises from Tommy Agombar that he would put in hundreds of thousands if not millions of pounds into the club.

"There has been promise after promise which have been broken time and time again.

"The Southern League told the club time after time that he had a deadline to pay the football creditors. He had three different deadlines from the Southern League to pay football creditors. He failed to pay football creditors.

"There are today some 50 people from last season who are classed as football creditors who are still owed money by the club.

"The Southern League have done nothing, the FA have done nothing. Greg Dyke complains about FIFA having problems. Greg Dyke should get his own house in order"