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First County Visit:<\/td>Saturday 14th April 1979<\/td><\/tr>
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Competition:<\/td>Football League Division 4 – (Tier 4)<\/td><\/tr>
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Result:<\/td>Hereford United 1 – 0 Stockport County<\/td><\/tr>
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Attendance:<\/td>3,609<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Trip:<\/td>13<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Day:<\/td>14<\/td><\/tr>
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County Line-up<\/td>1 David Lawson; 2 Carl Halford; 3 John Rutter; 4 Paul Edwards; 5 Andy Thorpe; 6 George Armstrong; 7 Phil Henson; 8 Alan Sumner; (12 Andy Seddon); 9 Les Bradd; 10 Eddie Prudham; 11 Stuart Lee<\/td><\/tr>
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Manager:<\/td>Mike Summerbee<\/td><\/tr>
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County Visits:<\/td>20<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Rumour has it that the pre-match entertainment at Edgar Street once involved a bull being paraded around the pitch.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The rumour makes sense, with the stadium sitting adjacent to the town\u2019s cattle market. On nineteen visits to Hereford I never uncovered any evidence of this, nor had a sighting of said ruminant.  Maybe the spectacle fell foul of the Health and Safety busybodies as they gradually throttled the lifeblood from a competitive nation. Or maybe not.  I know where my money is. It is with some satisfaction that I note, as Hereford FC were reborn from the ashes of the management induced debacle that was Hereford United, that the creature did make a re-appearance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proper pre-match entertainment seems to have disappeared in the last three decades, and certainly Hereford can claim something unique in their brand!!  Some of the very first games I went to, in the early 1960\u2019s, were at Maine Road and Old Trafford when the throng was royally entertained by the Beswick Prize Band, (conductor Albert Risby). That\u2019ll ring a bell with those of similar years to myself I imagine.   It felt like something to entertain the crowd rather than the anodyne pumping out of the latest pop ditty, interspersed with a reading of half time scores, (sometimes with dubious degrees of accuracy arising from trawling the less up to date web sites)..  Anyway, enough of that \u2013 it\u2019s just the old fogey emerging at this point!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edgar Street panorama. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the photo above in the foreground is the Meadow End, on the right the Len Weston Stand; the Main Stand, (left), and in the distance the Blackfriars Street End<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose that 19 (\u2020) trips to Edgar Street are a direct reflection of the fact that the Hatters and Hereford were very much fellow travellers throughout the 1980\u2019s and through to the early 2000\u2019s. There\u2019s certainly a fair degree of synonimity between the two. True tales of mismanagement on an epic scale at Board Room level resulted in ignominious falls from grace. Hereford United went out of business, and County must have been within inches of matching them. It\u2019s good to see that the reborn Hereford FC are now making their way back up the pyramid, maybe to follow Accrington Stanley and AFC Wimbledon, back to their rightful place in the League hierarchy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2020 At the time of writing this piece originally, (November 2016), I had been to Edgar Street 19 times – in April 2019 came a 20th trip – see the postscript below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What of Edgar Street that first time I entered back in April 1979?  (Archive footage as Edgar Street was then)<\/a><\/strong>, Tucked tightly between the road that gives the stadium it name and the cattle market, it feels as though it\u2019s been shoehorned in.    A smallish main stand fronted by a lot of glass which points to hospitality arrangements or something similar, I hope that Hereford managed to get a decent sponsorship from the double glazing manufacturers.  Their product must have been good to withstand the impact of heavy clearances from leaden footed Division 4 centre halves, and thus protect those enjoying the warmth inside from the icy blast which always seemed to surround Edgar Street on winter afternoons, never mind showers of glass shards.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edgar Street – Main Stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Edgar Street – Meadow End for the homesters<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Behind each goal was a curved terrace, the curvature being a reminder that the venue was also once home to an athletics track.  The Meadow End reserved for home fans was seemingly a lot closer to the action than its counterpart, the Blackfriars Street Stand, where a small cover, and maybe 10 rows of standing, was the away fans destination.  The problem was that the terrace was a good 15 yards away from dead-ball line.  It always felt a bit detached.  Not as bad as the accommodation allocated to away fans at the Withdean Stadium many years later, which stills holds pride, (or shame), of place at the top of the list for simply the worst view I have ever experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Blackfriars Street End (for away fans), viewed from the vertiginous Len Weston Stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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So after a couple of tries of this terrace, my third visit saw me pay the couple of quid more to experience the Len Weston Stand, (below)<\/strong>, which backed, literally onto Edgar Street and the passing traffic.  Len Weston was formerly a president and benefactor of the Club and this edifice was constructed in 1974.  Clearly the architects had a job on their hands.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running virtually the whole length of the pitch the real constraint was a building footprint no wider than a decent sized pavement.  On this was created a double decker stand, the lower part for standing and the upper for those who fancied a sit-down.  With the best will in the world nobody would ever describe the standing area as affording a good view, as the structure required a substantial number of concrete pillars to keep it aloft.  It was virtually impossible to get a proper view of the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upstairs was better, but for those a slave to vertigo not recommended. There were 5 rows of seating, and to afford a view over the heads of the row below the steepness of the structure was something to be marvelled at.  Standing up to salute a goal was to chance plummeting downwards and joining those who had elected to stand.  Not that it was much of an issue for the diehard Hatters fans.  It took 8 visits, (managing only a couple of draws), for me to see the legendary Tommy Sword on target and break my Edgar Street duck.  We still lost though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Len Weston Stand – a trial and test for vertigo-sufferers<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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It became a pretty happy\nhunting ground after that. 8 wins in the next 11 visits, which may have always\ndrawn me to an Away Day which wasn\u2019t the easiest.  The much travelled M6 \/ M5 route wasn\u2019t a\nproblem but it always seemed to take ages to cover that last 30 miles or so\nalong winding country roads.  But\nHereford was always a decent trip, indeed many of the long suffering and far\ntravelled County faithful regard it as the best Away Trip.  Others prefer Bootham Crescent.  It\u2019s each to his own, but I\u2019d probably side\nwith those who liked a visit to the Minster city, which coincidentally was my\nnext Away Day\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Postscript (March 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I originally wrote what\nappears above in November 2016.  A further\ntrip to Edgar Street came in April 2019. \nThe opposition this time round was the phoenix from the ashes Hereford\nFC.  They had stormed through the pyramid\nafter their formation in 2014, and the game came as the Hatters and Chorley\nwere engaged in a titanic struggle to claim the one automatic promotion place\nfrom National League North. County had 6 games left, one more than the Magpies,\nbut were two points adrift.  Chorley\nlooked nailed on for 3 points, as they hosted Telford.  A win was therefore paramount to ensure that\nwe kept in touch, knowing that if we did the title would more than likely be decided\nwhen we travelled to Victory Park on Easter Saturday, two weeks hence.  County\u2019s travelling support, always good, had\nincreased in the weeks leading up to the game, and the \u201cauthorities\u201d had made\nit an all-ticket affair for Hatters fans. \nWith Rob living in Solihull, it was an ideal opportunity for Julie and\nmyself to go down, and for Rob and I to go to the game.  I managed to get a ticket for him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving at Edgar\nStreet it was as though time had stood still. \nThe ground remained unchanged from my last visit there, back in 2012,\napart from the installation of a small stand at the Blackfriars Street End.  It stood just behind the goal, inside the\noriginal fence, and was very similar to the construction at the Horsfall\nStadium, Bradford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game kicked off and soon news came through of an early lead for Chorley and the tension built.  It was assuaged somewhat as Adam Thomas put County in the lead, and the mood changed to something akin to delirium as Nyal Bell doubled the lead a minute later.  There was no change at Chorley, and with Hereford pulling one back around 20 minutes from time it promised to be a nervy end.  The nerves changed to deep gloom as Liburd netted his second of the game deep into injury time.  Two vital points dropped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving the ground I suggested to Rob that it was now certain that the best we could get was the play-offs, as we now stood 4 points adrift of Chorley, albeit with that game in hand.  He looked at his phone and said \u201cNot so\u201d.  Brendon Daniels had pulled Telford level with a late penalty, and it was \u201cas you were\u201d, 90 minutes earlier.  County folklore affords cult hero status to Glenn Taylor, for his late, late goal which beat Chorley up at the Brewery Field Spennymoor on Easter Monday.  Arguably Brendon Daniels played just as big a part!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VISITS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day<\/strong><\/td>Date<\/strong><\/td>Competition<\/strong><\/td>Tier \/ Round<\/strong><\/td>Opponents<\/strong><\/td>Res<\/strong><\/td>F<\/strong><\/td>A<\/strong><\/td>Crowd<\/strong><\/td>Away Day<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>14\/04\/79<\/td>Football League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>1<\/td>3,609<\/td>14<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>15\/03\/80<\/td>Football League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>2,424<\/td>25<\/td><\/tr>
Wed<\/td>06\/05\/81<\/td>Football League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>1,707<\/td>43<\/td><\/tr>
Wed<\/td>04\/11\/81<\/td>Football League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>D<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>2,350<\/td>49<\/td><\/tr>
Wed<\/td>02\/03\/83<\/td>Football League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>D<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>1,294<\/td>74<\/td><\/tr>
Mon<\/td>23\/04\/84<\/td>Canon League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>3,728<\/td>95<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>15\/09\/84<\/td>Canon League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>3,395<\/td>98<\/td><\/tr>
Wed<\/td>16\/04\/86<\/td>Canon League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>2<\/td>3<\/td>1,978<\/td>132<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>11\/04\/87<\/td>Today League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>2,251<\/td>142<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>26\/03\/88<\/td>Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>1,695<\/td>158<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>25\/02\/89<\/td>Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>2,015<\/td>169<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>17\/03\/90<\/td>Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>2,458<\/td>187<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>29\/09\/90
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>D<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>2,619<\/td>195<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>03\/12\/05
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		FA Cup<\/td>Round 2<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td>3,620<\/td>543<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>03\/02\/07
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Coca-Cola Football League – League 2<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td>3,310<\/td>573<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>01\/03\/08<\/td>Coca-Cola Football League – League 2<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>3,526<\/td>600<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>25\/10\/08
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Coca-Cola Football League – League 1<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>3,210<\/td>615<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>15\/01\/11<\/td>npower Football League – League 2<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>3<\/td>3,154<\/td>667<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>06\/10\/12<\/td>Blue Square Bet Premier<\/td>Tier 5<\/td>Hereford United<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>1,889<\/td>709<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>06\/04\/19
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Vanarama National League North<\/td>Tier 6<\/td>Hereford FC<\/td>D<\/td>2<\/td>2<\/td>3,025<\/td>843<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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ON MY JOURNEY WITH COUNTY AROUND 180 GROUNDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

..<\/p>\n\n\nPreviously – LEEDS ROAD<\/span><\/a>\n\nNext stop – BOOTHAM CRESCENT<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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