The previous Saturday's long trek up north had seen Workington end Hereford's 14 match unbeaten run 2-1 courtesy of a late goal. The attendance of 2065 would be the lowest of Hereford's 72/73 league campaign. Brian Owen scored United's only goal.
Despite the defeat, Hereford remained in 5th spot as Lincoln visited; again an impressive attendance of 8639 were rewarded with a 2-1 win, a win that pushed Hereford up to 4th and inside the promotion places for the first time this season.
Colin Tavener certainly played his part in this one; he scored on the stroke of half time, with Tucker putting Hereford 2-0 up on 57. Tavener also chipped in for Lincoln with an own goal, and further manages to find time to have a penalty saved. It looked a lively game, though, as Ron Parrott summarised in his good book...
Injury-hit City bring manager Graham Taylor out of retirement then Jimmy McGeough suffers a broken ankle. Keeper John Kennedy has five stitches in his mouth but gallantly returns to make a great save to stop a penalty from Tavener, who had earlier scored his first ever league goal.
On the Pitch: Addison is gutted about the Workington result, but is confident that Hereford will dust themselves down and go again. Cropping up elsewhere throughout the programme is the name Dixie McNeil, accompanied each time by the word "goal".
Off the Pitch: It is a pity this ding donger of a game wasn't in February as Bits and Pieces reveals that Rothmans organised a promotional drive where every packet of their Cigarettes fans smoked resulted in a penny being donated to the club. The 1970's were proper.
Supporter's Club Jottings focuses on the challenges of producing the programme. Whilst you are probably trying to track down the person responsible for me getting hold of them to prevent any further damage being done, the bumper crowds meant that on matchdays people were sometimes left disappointed. There is also a response to grumblings about the recent Chester programme being out of date.
In the Opposition: Hot on the heels of the last programme's Graham Turner is another very familiar name in Graham Taylor. He had effectively retired due to a hip injury so this was one of his last ever games. Like Turner, Graham Taylor would manage Aston Villa during the 80's. He would manage to avoid the sack at Villa, instead being punished by bagging the England job.
The other familiar name was future Hereford star Dixie McNeil. He would score an impressive 53 goals in 97 appearances between 1972-74 before Hereford paid £15000 for his services.
In the Charts: Blockbuster by Sweet hits top spot, their only ever No.1.
In the News: To give you a sense of where Hereford United were now at, Monday 22nd January sees panic on the trading floors as the City reacts to the away loss at Workington with £4,000,000,000 being wiped off the value of British shares in one day.
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