Hereford Women Win At Dudley

Hereford Women won their League game at Dudley this afternoon.

Dudley 2 Hereford 3

The Hereford goals were scored by Sheree Smith (2) and Lottie Coleman.

Hereford move up to 7th in the League with 9 points from 7 games.

Next Sunday Hereford are 'at home' to Alvechurch. The game is set to take place at Bromyard. 

Badges On Sale At Telford Match

A large selection of HFC pin badges will be on sale pre match this Tuesday v Telford. The badges pictured are available at £1 and £4 each ( cash only ) from a sales point in front of the matchday ticket office.  All net proceeds go directly to HFC.

Before Kick-Off At Macclesfield

 

Horrible conditions, the kind of day one might have stopped at home.

Nevertheless, 469 Hereford supporters made the trip to Macclesfield yesterday for what turned out to be a game that will be talked about for a long time.

Below a few pictures from before kick-off.

Iwunze Gets The Winner At Macclesfield

Goalscorers Harrison Iwunze And Aaron Skinner

Hereford striker Harrison Iwunze sealed victory for the Bulls at Macclesfield yesterday.

His goal came within a few minutes of the home side equalising after Hereford had taken the lead in the first half when Aaron Skinner scored from the spot.

Iwunze latched on to a through ball from Billy Phillips and his shot went straight past the advancing keeper Dibble. 

Cue more celebrations.

REACTION | John Rooney - Macclesfield 1-2 Hereford FC

Macclesfield's manager John Rooney spoke to the club's youtube channel after the game. Click on the play button to hear his thoughts.

Skinner's Penalty Opened The Scoring At Macclesfield

Hereford's Aaron Skinner stepped up to the mark to take a penalty at Macclesfield yesterday and sent Christian Dibble the wrong way.

It happened after Elliot Osborne had impeded Danny Waldron close to goal. Osborne was sent off.

Upstepped Skinner who made no mistake sending Dibble the wrong way.

The Hereford players then celebrated in front of the home supporters before turning back towards the dug-outs. 

National North Weekend Review

Hereford Players Celebrate First Goal At Macclesfield

This from NL's Sam Elliott:

There were some huge games in the Enterprise National League North and South - and none bigger than at Moss Rose.

In an incident packed encounter, Hereford left Macclesfield with a 2-1 victory to return to the top of the table.

The nine man hosts couldn’t pull off a great recovery with the match settling moment coming from Harrison Iwunze as the Bulls go two points clear.

Oxford City are second but could only draw a Marine, who had ten men for most of the second half.

South Shields are fourth and in form - they defeated Chester as Cedwyn Scott, Toby Onanaye and Caden Kelly scored in the 3-1 success.

Morecambe left Merthyr Town winning by the same scoreline. Isaac Buckley-Ricketts made the points safe.

George Moncur scored the winner as Bedford left Scarborough victorious.

Darlington started the post Steve Watson era with a fine 3-0 win over rivals Spennymoor. Dylan Stephenson scored a hat-trick.

Radcliffe won at Brackley, while Buxton’s 3-2 success at Chorley was earned by Johnny Johnston.

Will Merry confirmed Hednesford’s win over Spalding as Jack Charles claimed a dramatic point for Hebburn at AFC Telford United.

Hereford Women in action today

Hereford Women travel to Dudley today in West Midlands Regional League.

Kick off is 2pm. 

Trip to Gloucester in HFA Cup

Hereford have been drawn away to UDA Gloucester in the quarter finals of the HFA County Challenge Cup.

The Bulls were given a bye in the first round.

Ties are due to take place around November 24.

However, Hereford have a league match at Brackley on the 24th. Therefore it will probably take place during another week. 

This Afternoon's National North Results

This afternoon's results: 

Brackley 0 Radcliffe 1

Chorley 2 Buxton 3

Darlington 3 Spennymoor 0

Harborough 1 Worksop 1

Hednesford 2 Spalding 0

Kings Lynn 0 Southport 0

Macclesfield 1 Hereford 2

Marine 1 Oxford City 1

Merthyr 1 Morecambe 3

Scarborough 1 Bedford 2

South Shields 3 Chester 1

Telford 2 Hebburn 2 

Hereford are now top again with 26 points from 12 games, Oxford are second with Macclesfield third, both with 24 points. 

New Roll For Pell

 

Hereford's coach Harry Pell took on a new role this afternoon at Macclesfield as a groundsman.

This happened before the second half got underway as the referee wasn't happy with a small section of the plastic pitch which was holding water.

Before the game kicked off the Macclesfield groundsman had used a sponge roller to mop up this section which was towards where the Hereford supporters, braving the wind and rain, were standing.

But at half-time nothing was done to mop up the water by Macclesfield. Maybe because at this stage Macclesfield were losing 1-0 and were down to 10 men?

So when the referee came out for the second half he looked at the water-logged area and decided to halt proceedings until action was taken by the Macclesfield ground staff.

But they appeared reluctant to do anything much about it. Then one of the Macclesfield staff went to the other end of the ground and found a broom with which he tried to brush the water off but to no avail.

The referee, to his credit, was not having this and spoke to both managers and staff. It's understood he said that he wanted the game to go ahead and would wait until work was undertook to get the worst of the water off the pitch.

At this stage Hereford chairman Chris Ammonds had noticed where two big red sponge brushes were kept and Harry Pell went to get one.

The Hereford coach rushed on the pitch and started to sponge the water into the container. A minute later he was joined by goal-keeping coach Shaun Edwards with the second sponge roller.

Soon the worst of the water had been removed, the referee then tested the area with a ball, watching how well it bounced, and directed the game should continue.

It's not thought Hereford will make any complaint about what happened but it's expected the referee will report the incident to the FA. No doubt the Hereford supporters will remember this game for many years to come not only for their 2-1 win but ten minutes of being shown how to use a sponge roller by Harry Pell and Shaun Edwards. 

Match Report: Macclesfield FC 1-2 Hereford FC

Aaron Skinner's Penalty Put The Bulls Ahead

Macclesfield FC v Hereford FC in the Enterprise National League North.

After suffering the first defeat of the season at the MandM Edgar Street Stadium a fortnight ago to surrender top spot the Bulls we're back on the road with a trip to the Leasing.com Stadium against the side that replaced them at the summit Macclesfield FC in a mouthwatering top-of-the-table clash.

The second two week hiatus allowed Hereford to get Joe Willis and Fin Holmes yet more recovery time to get up to full speed with both on the bench. There were two changes with Harry Tustin and Danny Waldron both coming into the eleven, Cawley Cox dropped to the bench and Preston Bitemo wasn't involved.

In miserable wet and windy conditions with the country in the grips of Storm Boelo the game kicked-off with an early free-kick for the Silkmen on the left, Luke Duffy pumped the ball into the area towards the back post just evading the onrushing Sam Heathcote who collided into the advertisement hoarding behind the goal.

The Bulls thought they'd taken the lead after having the ball in the back of the net with a strike by Harrison Iwunze but a foul was given due to a push in the back by him on Tom Wilson.

Danny Elliot then fizzed a drive from 30-yards for the hosts into the clutches of Theo Richardson.

On 15 minutes Hereford’s bright start was rewarded when Harry Tustin’s shot from the edge of the box on the right was spilled by Macclesfield keeper Christian Dibble which Danny Waldron would of got to but he was hauled to the ground by Elliot Osborne for a spot-kick who received his marching orders for denying a goalscoring opportunity. Aaron Skinner stepped up with a skip and a hop before calmly sending Dibble the wrong way to break the deadlock.

On the 30 minute mark a high boot on Waldron by Josh Kay just inside the Bulls’ half resulted in the Silkmen midfielder picking up a booking which could quite easily have been a red.

At this point there were puddles starting to form on the 3G surface near the Hereford box before Macclesfield screamed for a penalty of their own when Duffy floated a corner towards the back post where Heathcote was grappling with Kyle Howkins but the appeals were waved away by the referee.

Kay clipped a cross into the danger zone from the right but Elliott's effort from near the penalty spot with his outstretched leg flew over the bar.

Macclesfield’s George Wilson shrugged off Joseph James on the left touchline before galloping down the flank, he proceeded to roll the ball into the path of Duffy but his curler failed to test Richardson and flew high over the bar.

Spokes almost doubled the lead when space opened up on the edge of the box for him, his venomous low shot was tipped away by Dibble who dived low to his right.

Shortly before half-time a high ball by Skinner was latched onto by Waldron who drove into the area - cut onto his right but the Macclesfield shot-stopper was equal to it deflecting the ball out for a corner with his right leg.

A man up and the Bulls were full value for their narrow one-nil lead at the break which if it hadn't been for Dibble it could have been more.

Half-time: Macclesfield FC 0-1 Hereford FC

After half-time the referee came out to look at the area which had started to collect water and took the players back into the changing rooms, a short while afterwards assistant manager Harry Pell and goalkeeping coach Shaun Edwards both even came out to roll the problematic area to get the second-half underway!

Seven minutes after the restart Macclesfield equalised, Duffy was afforded too much time allowing him to advance 35-yards out before unleashing a piledriver which flew past Richardson into the bottom-left corner.

Hereford almost regained the lead responding through Spokes having a dig which Dibble batted away before Tustin made way for Holmes.

The visitors however didn't have to wait too much longer to regain the lead on 63 minutes - Phillips did well midway inside the Silkmen half, threaded a delicate ball through to Iwunze who showed good strength to hold off Heathcote before exquisitely placing the ball into the bottom-left of the net to get his ninth for the club.

Kam Kandola flashed a shot which beat Dibble but flew narrowly past the left post before the hosts were reduced to nine men when Kay picked up his second yellow for a challenge in the middle of the park on Phillips.

Kandola tried his luck again from a similar position to his chance earlier which flew past the right upright.

Macclesfield went back on the offensive looking for a way back with Duffy whipping a corner in from the right with Paul Dawson meeting it with a powerful header into the ground only for Skinner to superbly block on the line.

Before 5 minutes of additional time were announced Spokes made way for Willis who it was great to see back out on the pitch to gain his first minutes following his return from injury.

Hereford almost put the game to bed only for Dibble to pull off a quick double save to keep the hosts in the contest - firstly he pushed away Cawley Cox’s drilled shot before the rebound found Phillips but the Silkmen shot-stopper again came up with a big stop.

Deep into the five minutes Muir stung the palms of Dibble from the right side of the box from an acute angle before seeing out the remaining seconds to seal a massive win to return to the summit.

Full-time: Macclesfield FC 1-2 Hereford FC

Goals scored by Aaron Skinner from the penalty spot and Harrison Iwunze.

Hereford FC: 1. Theo Richardson, 2. Aaron Skinner, 4. Kam Kandola ©️, 5. Will Merrett, 8. Harry Tustin, 10. Danny Waldron, 14. Luke Spokes, 17. Joseph James, 19. Harrison Iwunze, 23. Billy Phillips, 28. Kyle Howkins.

Substitutes: 6. Joe Willis, 7. Keziah Martin, 9. Cawley Cox, 11. Fin Holmes, 18. Liam Roberts, 21. Ollie Lewis, 30. Kameron Muir.

Attendance 3,235 (469 away)

The Bulls come away with a superb victory on the road in the top-of-the-table clash to regain top spot at the summit. Full credit to Harry Pell and Shaun Edwards for both coming out just after half-time and rollering the problematic area and getting the game back underway! 

Hereford return to the MandM Edgar Street Stadium on Tuesday night with the visit of AFC Telford United in a local derby. COYW

Words: Sam Cummins