Will be a sad day if they're going out of existance..... At this time of year with memories of the famous win over Newcastle with Ronnie Radford and co Hereford United have been suspended "from all football activity" by the Football Association. The club have "failed to comply" with the orders laid down by the Independent Regulatory Commission's Owners' and Directors' Test. Hereford United now play in the Southern League following their expulsion from the Conference last summer.
Another one of my favourite games was against Hereford when we won 3-0 in the Second leg of the Southern Final of The Mickey Mouse trophy to get to Wembley for the first time. Stevie Neville scoring in the last minute of extra time after we had lost the first leg 2-0, (that wasn't such a good game)
We also beat them 1-0 at Edgar St before we drew Leeds in the FA Cup 5th round in 1974 if my memory serves
Very very sad and to think Wade bloody Rooney earns £300k a week. The footballing world has gone mad. 'Another one of my favourite games' and mine. It was played up there in a quagmire, we won, and was coming back across the Severn Bridge listening to the radio when City were paired with Leeds Utd. The rest is History.
Rather Rooney earned £300k a week given that he gives 110% every game than Beckham now having us believe he drinks Haig scotch rather than the expected Ribena and earning big bucks for nowt into the bargain You couldn't make it up !
Edgar Road was still more modern than the memorial ground. Nice away day town and hopefully they'll be researched from the dead sometime in the future.
Beckham's performance in that game against Greece was the best performance by an individual for England I ever saw (so as the 1970 WC is my earliest memory that's nearly 45 years!) Not sure our Waggy could do that!
Oh God the Beckham apologists have started.... 1 goal on his own tump in a game we wouldn't have been eliminated from the following competion straight away anyway. So if he was that good in that game what about the other 115 or however many unwarranted caps he was gifted when he was always totally anonymous against the big teams, or was being petulant/sent off, being booked on purpose because his stick insect Wife had a modelling assignment, or playing Quarterback in one of our worst displays ever..........? FFS you couldn't make it up. I'm disappointed in you Simon, very very disappointed.
You don't play for the likes of Man United, England, Real Madrid, AC Milan or PSG for being over rated. You both clearly don't like the bloke personally which means you'll never rate him as a player.
115 caps - so Glenn Hoddle, Howard Wilkinson, Kevin Keegan, Peter Taylor, Sven Goran-Erikson, Steve Maclaren (eventually) and Fabio Cappello were all wrong to pick him? Over 400 appearances for top clubs (Man U , Real Madrid, Milan, PSG) plus 90-odd LA Galaxay (ok not a top club) - but my point is managers such as Fergusson etc picked him regularly. Twice runner-up in FIFA player of the year. No apologies here - simply think the lad can play - IMO the best crosser of a ball in English football
'clearly don't like the bloke personally' Smashing bloke, came round for tea last night. 'which means you'll never rate him as a player' Fantastic logic Shiny - Equally daft as 'Smashing bloke, came round for tea last night'
He largely warmed the bench in Madrid and his arrival coincided with the most fruitless time in their entire history AC Milan fans, just like LA Galaxy saw through him and he did nothing in Italy The move to PSG was frankly a joke and was just a final publicity stunt He wasn't a bad player, I've never said that But he has been massively overhpyed during his whole career. Bestie got it right. Can't tackle, can't head but he can pass a bit Add on no positional awareness, no leadership qualities yet was still made England captain etc etc etc The FA and in particular SGE who fawned all over him from day 1 have a lot to answer for for giving him more than 80 or so caps
What I love about football is the differing views people have about players/teams etc. I take your point about tackling - nor could Paul Scholes by the way! I actually think he's a good leader - not the John Terry style of leadership, but led by example. For me Beckham's plus points were: Crossing Passing Dead Ball Delivery Work Rate Attitude (always made himself available for selection) I suppose if we are talking about over-hype, you could say that about all of the so called "golden generation"?
Basically this. It's the same as people who can't spot the talent Wayne Rooney has. People love to hate and ignore the positives. Unless you're Messi or Ronaldo you're not going to shine in every game.
