...look forward in hope
East Anglian Bull looks to the future.
Every article I have seen on this Third Round FA Cup weekend, with anything slightly "Radfordesque" (to copy a phrase) in it has been written as our eulogy and is quite mournful of the fact that all that was Hereford United before has gone, never to return, but have we really lost our history.
The United mugs I drink my Tea from in various family houses, my Lionel Ainsworth signed shirt or the League 1 promotion team signed Football I've got in my cupboard, are they worthless? No, they are not. They are priceless.
Yes, they are from better times than we are in now and yes it will take a long time to establish ourselves to getting to where we were then but it can be done.
The most important thing is we have got our club back.
When the dust settles and fans finally get that moment, where they once again can set foot into Edgar Street, with their White and Bull emblazoned shirts on and stand at the Meadow End to cheer out the new squad, that is the new stamp to be embedded onto the next page of our old history books, not in a completely different new one.
Watching scores come in over the weekend for teams like Yeovil, Gateshead, Blyth Spartans and AFC Wimbledon, it will burn an envious hole in my chest but I know our future looks immense and though to others, not linked to the club, it will be a renamed team playing at Edgar Street in the future, to us, it will always be United.