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Next Game: Home Against Warrington In The League On Saturday January 11th At 1.00pm ( because the floodlights aren't working )

Friday, January 02, 2015

Ronnie's Weekend


John Motson Interviewing Ronnie Radford At Edgar Street in 2012
It's the third round of the FA Cup this weekend but absent from the competition will be a team from Hereford.

Nevertheless, there have been several press articles to remind of Hereford's glory days in the Cup, particularily from 1972 when Ronnie Radford scored a goal against Newcastle that continues to be remembered by football fans the world over.


Perhaps the most interesting article has appeared in the Daily Telegraph.

http://babb.telegraph.co.uk/2015/01/ronnie-radford-and-the-goal-that-launched-a-thousand-fa-cup-cliches/ 

The last paragraph brings readers back to reality.

43 years later, Hereford United are no more. Put into liquidation after their parent company was served with a winding-up order, their Wikipedia page now is now written in the mournful past tense. There was to be no Radfordesque, last-ditch rescue at the high court in London – hugely unpopular owner Andy Lonsdale claimed to be stuck in traffic on his way to provide proof of £1m funding to pay the club’s creditors – and the fans have been left to form their own phoenix club for next season. Five years ago, the club were in League One, but a series of unfit and improper owners and unpaid debts saw them plummet back to the Southern League in 2014.

Meanwhile Millwall manager Iain Holloway has praised the FA Cup saying that it is a 'wonderful competition'.

"Absolutely fantastic tournament where anybody used to be able to beat anybody, and that was the whole thing. I remember Ronnie Radford’s (equalising) goal against Newcastle, for Hereford (who won 2-1, in 1972)."