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| Sam Clucas After Scoring At Cambridge In May 2013 |
Two articles about two different former Hereford players have been published in the last few days.
The first, in the Guardian, is all about Sam Clucas who played for Hereford.
He joined the Glenn Hoddle academy in 2010 after being released by Leicester.
"People were there for different reasons but with the same goal," said Clucas.
"Everyone was at a different level; some were there because technically they were not good enough to play in the professional game, some weren’t tall enough, some were good enough but did not have the right attitude, some mentally could not handle football and were out there to improve."
Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/27/sam-clucas-jordan-hugill-rotherham-glenn-hoddle-academy
The second, on the BBC Wales website, is all about Tommy Best who was the first black player to wear a Cardiff City shirt. He became known as 'Darkie Best' and suffered a lot of abuse.
Best later played for Hereford.
The Hereford Historian Ron Parrott became a good friend of Best.
"He said it could be pretty bad at times, but he told me the worst he ever had was in a game at Merthyr where there had been bananas thrown and the monkey chants," recalls Ron.
"But he swore it didn't upset him. As he told me about it, he leaned to me with a wicked glint in his eye and said the more they did it, the harder he tried."
Read more at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67255682?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA