Driving to Chester to watch Hereford on November 2nd? Supporters can park at the ground for £3 on a first come, first served basis.
Farsley Celtic chairman Paul Barthorpe had his car damaged last Saturday after his team lost to Kettering in the FA Cup. The tie was played at Guiesley whilst Farsley's pitch is being converted to 4G. Farsley are currently under a transfer embargo.
It will cost Hereford supporters £17 to watch next Saturday's game at Curzon Ashton. Concessions are £12.
Former Hereford player Peter Vincenti is training to become a referee.
He has joined a scheme based at Warwick University along with 15 other former players which is a collaboration between players union the PFA and elite refereeing body PGMOL. It is being funded by the Premier League.
Vincenti had a 14 year long playing career with eight different clubs including Hereford. He hopes his experience as a player will count when as a referee he gets abuse.
“We have already experienced that in our playing careers,” said Vincenti.
“You have situations as a player where your form dips and people are on your back.
“You know it [abuse] is going to happen but we have a thick skin. It’s not at the forefront of my mind, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. I prefer to look at the more positive aspects.”
The group will be monitored and if they show promise fast-tracked.
With
the news that Hereford FC are upgrading the floodlights at
Edgar Street, BN looks back to two articles published in 2010 about the
floodlights.
March 7th 2010
It was back in the
1952/53 season that floodlights were first installed at Edgar Street.
Hereford United were one of the first non-league clubs to have them.
The
pylons, on which the floodlights were perched, were presented to the
club by Painter Brothers, a local steel fabrication company.
Then,
according to John Williamson's book 'The Hereford United Story', they
were tried out for a reserve match in the Birmingham League.
The game, played on March 10th, resulted in a 2-0 win for the reserve against Walsall.
The
grand opening was later that week. Some 7508 spectators saw Hereford
United defeat Merthyr Tydfil 3-1 in a Herefordshire Senior Cup replay.
The gate was around 3000 more than average.
However,
according to club historian Ron Parrott, the original pylons went when
Edgar Street was widened in 1968 for the new relief road. The 'new' ones
(pictured) were erected at the end of November, early December 1968 and
to test them out Swansea sent their first team up on Wednesday 11th
December for a friendly, which United won 3-2 in front of a very
disappointing gate of 1,050.
The official opening was to be on
the following Monday against Yeovil Town in the Southern League Cup but
the game was postponed due to a frozen pitch and not rearranged until
Monday 30th December.
In between, United played at home to
Atherstone Town on Wednesday 18th December in a 5-1 win in the Camkin
Cup when the floodlights were used for the first time and a crowd of
only 1,303 witnessed the occasion (Ron Parrott was one of them!).
June 22nd 2010
Ron Parrott, the Hereford United historian, is currently writing a book on the club and he has kindly allowed BN to print a couple of paragraphs about the floodlights in 1953.
Work was due to start today installing new floodlights at Edgar Street after planning permission was finally granted last week.
Hereford chairman Chris Ammonds has spoken to BBC Hereford and Worcester and started by saying it was brilliant news for the club.
"It's been going on for quite some time, the planning application was put in at the end of April.
"There's been a lot of detail required, a lot of information required, quite a lot of it as a club we couldn't possibly understand.
"But after a lot of hard work, particularily in the last two or three weeks there's been a real will and a real urgency from all the parties involved to try and get this over the line.
"The great thing is we've managed to get it all sorted and agreed in time to allow us to start work on Monday.
"We need a two week window (for the work) because you are installing four new pylons in the four corners of the pitch, it's going to require a big lorry delivering everything.
"The poles come in different sections, not in one long piece. There will be a crain required to lift the pieces into place so that's a big job which will take the best part of ten days I think.
"But we've got this window between home fixtures now which should allow us to do it and then carry out the required tests in time to use it.
"The longer we leave it you worry about the weather getting worse and the pitch getting softer and also the clocks go back very soon as well so even on a Saturday afternoon game you are going to need those lights very swiftly. So to get them in now is brilliant."
Should the new lights not be installed in time for the next home game - Farsley Celtic on October 30th - what happens?
"We've still got the current floodlights in place, we haven't unplugged them or anything so if we need to use those we can continue to use those in the short term. Hopefully we won't have to, hopefully the old pylons will just become spectators at matches.
"They can do the installation at the Meadow End in the first instance and then once that's completed doing the Blackfriars End wouldn't involve going over the pitch so it should work out okay."
Despite the delay it looks like the project will be fully grant funded.
"The Football Foundation have been incredibly supportive, we've kept them updated all the way through.
"But you do begin to worry, we first were given confirmation we would get grant funding almost prior to even asking for planning permission so it's been quite a lengthy process.
"But because we kept them involved they've been very supportive and stayed with us.
"But it is a relief, you don't want to see a pot of money that you've worked really hard to secure, you don't want to see it disappear.
"We're hopeful we may land up with the entire project paid with grant funding. we're working through that sat the moment."
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Highlights from Saturday's game between Buxton and Hereford are available to watch.
Please go to: https://www.herefordfc.co.uk/highlights-buxton-1-2-hereford/
Attendance: 9,004
Hereford United: Hughes, Carver, Naylor, McLaughlin, Tucker, Tavener, Evans, Jenkins, Redrobe, Gregory, Mallender.
Opposition: Johnson, Fagan, Farrimond, Moore, Yeats, Stevenson, Tynan, Palios, Loyden, Young, McAuley
League Position: 11th (6 games in), the win for Tranmere sent them top.
Colin's Comments: Some things haven't changed much in 50 years, with Addison acknowledging that the team haven't been at their best at home. Although, I think we could all probably cope with the disappointment of a poor performance in the previous game resulting in only getting a point against visiting Watford.
In the Opposition: Where do you start with their squad? Their Scottish born player manager Ron Yeats who sadly passed away in September won two titles and an FA Cup in a 10 year spell at Liverpool and was made an honorary Scouser in 2009. Fellow Scot Tommy Lawrence had an almost identical career, he passed away in 2018, his latter days though were best remembered for this heart melting interview in 2015.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-31188264
Ray Matthias holds the record for most appearances for Tranmere (637, 64-85). Kit Fagan is the son of former Liverpool boot room member Joe Fagan who would manage Liverpool in the mid '80s. Kit manages to put the "how old am I" boot in by being 74 himself. Brains of the outfit, Mark Palios got a mention in the last programme, a player who would go on to be the FA's main man. The "Meet the Rovers" page has Tommy Tynan in the squad, a name that will be familiar as he was a lower league player that was full of goals, as Hereford found to their cost in the League Cup against a very handy Newport County team in 1980. Anyway it wasn't Tommy, it was a typo. It was a fellow scouser Bobby (misspelt Bobbie on the back page), they were both born in Liverpool on 17th November and 7th December 1955 respectively. Cousins maybe? Hopefully not twins.
Finally, you will be relieved to learn, Ronnie Moore. He would play roughly half of his over 600 games at Tranmere before going into management for 30 years, which would include a double promotion winning spell at Rotherham.
Fan of the Week: Or rather 100 fans of the week, looking at a packed terrace photo. Even the infamous Bulls News photographers struggle to get that many in the net.
Edgar Street Chatter: Plenty going on as ever in and around 1970's Edgar Street, including the programme editor jinxing the evening by celebrating that Hereford had gone 12 months unbeaten at Edgar Street. This puts into context how excellent Hereford were, given Colin Addison had taken the opportunity in his notes to bemoan the fact that they weren't hitting the high notes at home.
Third Division Round Up: This article clocks that Tranmere were on the verge of achieving a rare feat (starting the season with five clean sheets), something that they accomplished in this match despite the efforts of in-form Brian Evans.
Supporters' Corner: It looks like it is full steam ahead with the project of the day, the extension of the main stand with the building of the now Block D and integrated social facilities. The new stand would increase the main stand capacity from 900 to 1,300, with a further 1,200 seats quite literally jammed into the upper deck of the Len Weston. 1970s fans' bladders were clearly made of sterner stuff.
I believe the two new stands gave Hereford the distinction of being the only team outside the top flight of English football to have two stands with cantilevered roofs.
Going by Car: Check out "The Aerobats 73".
In the Charts: Young Love by Donny Osmond is at No.1
He's One of Our Own: Steve Blatherwick was born on 20th September 1973. He played 10 times for Hereford on loan from Nottingham Forest in the 95-96 play-off season, scoring once in a 2-2 draw against Exeter - well twice really, as he also conceded an own goal. His "club" would become Chesterfield where he would play over 200 games, but not before commanding a fee of £150k when Burnley bought him from Nottingham Forest.
Click on photos to enlarge.
A good turn out of Hereford supporters at Buxton yesterday especially given the game was 'televised'.
A later kick off at 3.00pm (2.00pm usual in women’s football) saw Hereford (tier 7) take on Boldmere ( tier 4) at Church Road in the FA Womens Cup on an artificial pitch.
For the first 45 minutes Hereford defended deep, the defence was under constant pressure.
Midway through the first half a good strike from a central position on the edge of the box beat Hannah Pritchard in goal.
HT Boldmere 1-0 Hereford
Second half the Mikes began in the same attacking form as the first, with the striker going down in the box although there appeared to be very little contact.
The resulting penalty was converted.
Boldmere 2-0 Hereford
Hereford made several substitutions late in the game and looked more attacking but it was Boldmere who again found the net from a good strike this time from well outside the box.
Full Time
Boldmere 3-0 Hereford
The FA cup run may be over but Hereford were no way out classed, they looked disciplined and kept to the game plan impeccably.
A selection of pictures from the second half of yesterday's game between Buxton and Hereford.
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