The Rise & Fall of the FA Cup GIANT-KILLER 🏆 Hereford United
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- 🐂 Hereford United went into liquidation in 2014 BUT it's fair to say the club enjoyed some incredible highs as well as some tragic lows over the years... 🤔 Famously Hereford United Football Club was most known for its FA Cup "Giant Killing" of Newcastle United in 1972. THAT Ronnie Radford goal is played every time a non-league club meets an English footballing giant in cup competition. For me, the game against Brighton in 1997 was the start of the decline for HUFC 👉🏽 putting an end to the club's 25 year stay in the Football League. Brighton & Hove Albion were going through their own troubles in 97 after losing their football ground and almost losing the club as a whole. That infamous game in May 1997 is looked back as something to celebrate to many in the footballing world, but for me it will always be reflected on with sadness... Hereford United returned briefly to the football league in 2006, but ultimately their money troubles would catch up with them and in 2014 they went bust over a measly £1.3 million in debt... 😞 Fans helped resurrect Hereford and a phoenix club was set up... "HEREFORD FC" ...with football still being hosted at the Edgar Street stadium. So... after moving away from Herefordshire many years ago, I returned to see what or if anything had changed over the years... in this stadium tour we see that although physically the ground is pretty much as it was in the 90s and before, the feeling around Hereford FC is full of optimism. I've carried a burden of guilt for drifting away from the football club I spent so much time at as child... so from this point forward, I'd like to relieve myself of some of these sins... Ladies & Gents... SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CLUB... Through the good times and the bad... Hereford, it's time to CELEBRATE YOU BABY and I want to PRAISE you like I should (have all these years)... 🤍🖤
#stadiumtour #football #hereford
Following on from this we'll be in BRIGHTON for a Stadium Tour this weekend 🍻 then ticking our final Premier League destination off the following weekend in Luton 🤩 MORE stadium tours are booked for this month but I'll keep those quiet for now so LET US KNOW IN THE COMMENTS 👉🏽 WHERE NEXT⁉ 🏟
Might sound odd coming from somebody who used to attend Vicarage Road regularly during the 1990s but you know that saying "what goes around comes around" ? I believe Luton are actually due some luck come back to them for that points deduction which was the beginning of their fall down to the National League. You look at the teams above them-Forest,Everton etc,they are not exactly pulling away leaving them stranded,i have to give them credit they deserve a second season in the Prem.
@@owenpavey that’s a fair assessment mate 😊🍻
Hi Ry, as a Newcastle United fan your boyhood team are a recurring nightmare for me every time the FA Cup comes round lol. Despite that I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed watching this as I have watching your other videos. Keep doing what you do, it’s excellent and really interesting to a fellow football fan like myself. Thanks 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍
Haha 😁🍻 thanks mate. Hopefully get back up to Newcastle for when adidas refurbish the club shop
Hi Ry, our present club shop is a joke with very little choice of items. Given that we’re black and white daft up here and would buy fresh air if it had a club crest on it, I’m certain the new owners will realise they’re sitting on a goldmine and the revamped adidas club shop will be a massive step up from what it is today. Hopefully you can get a better quirky item than a duck next time, keep up the good work 👍
@@KevinMarch-si3kz haha cheers mate, yeah looking forward to checking it out - hopefully for a game but I know tickets are like gold dust
Being born in Hereford I’ll always have a soft spot for my home town club ❤️
Great video as per Ry .
Been Edgar street twice Stockport county beat them 2-0 in the fa cup 2005 and we won 2-0 in the efl league two aswell 2007 Sorry Ry 😮
Newcastle, West Ham etc no problem but if the ‘Ford come up against the mighty Stockport they’re nackered 😅👍🏾
5:12 the elbow from the Hereford defender if thrown in this day would result in the Newcastle forward rolling about in agony. Back then it was just shrugged off.
Class watching 70s footy isn’t it - the Leeds team were scrapping all the time 🤣 or that Chopper Harris for Chelsea 😮
@@RysFootyParadise every team seemed to have at least one "reducer".
Love these! Great to learn all this history being from St. Pete Florida. UTV!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊👍🏾
Edgar Street. Just look at it. It's a steam train in a world of the High Speed Train. But people stop to watch a steam train go by,and people still want to see a match at this ground,and why not? Close to an equally charasmatic town centre and railway station, this place echoes with John Motson's first BBC FA Cup Commentary game. If there was a list of "want to see this club back in the league" this would be back,along with Aldershot,Bury,Oldham,Rochdale & Halifax 😊
Mate, that’s a cracking comment and way of describing Edgar Street 👏🏽 I’m gonna make a video about those teams you listed too… let’s BRING THEM BACCKKK
@@RysFootyParadise oh Ry,just seen something that made me laugh on facebook. You may not be aware that cricket counties have local rivalries -though not as intense as soccer or rugby league,it's still nice to get one over the rivals. In Vitality Blast T20 the match between Sussex Sharks (Hove) and Hampshire Hawks (Southampton) is known as "El Clasicoast" .Would be interested to know if football rivals have similar puns 🙂
@@owenpavey yep “El Glosico” is the fiesty rivalry around here between the 2 Gloucestershire clubs Cheltenham & Forest Green 😅
Enjoying your video's. I left England in 73, and remember the giant killings in '72. I also used to go to the Fair with my granddad, so have fond memories of Hereford, to the point I do check their scores on the weekend.
Thanks again
Thanks for watching 😊
From a distance the Len Weston stand looks like a stand you would see at a racecourse track. Another great video.
Cheers Paul - it's mad its exactly as it was in the 90s
Bulls fan from Ledbury also
Excellent video my friend I am also a Hereford United fan/ FC. I went to the Hereford Brighton game in 1997 that was a tough day love the video
Glad you enjoyed it mate! As ive put in the description - I've held onto the guilt of drifting away from Hereford over the years... not just Geographically (been out of the Shire for around 11 years) but from a footballing sense... My dad and brother who live in Hereford are still season ticket holders... so I'm hoping to shed more light on clubs like Hereford and remind those of the great (and at times "sad") history of the club :)
I am a Wolves fan , but also like Chasetown 👍, Hereford keeper Curtis Pond was Chasetown keeper...
A really lovely video, Ry. It was nice to see you remenice about your childhood watching Hereford. Really enjoyed this one.
Glad you enjoyed it mate, was fun to get all nostalgic
Nice one Ry, love the Hereford hedge !, a really deep tribute to your home town club. Superb edits in there too your getting better at this passion of yours, so keep up the good work, plus love the lead into the next Brighton video. Hope you get a nice warm welcome at the Amex and no pesky security guards giving you grief. Really looking forward to the next one mate, make sure you get something good from the club shop for Paradise HQ too ,e.g. no seagull tat!
haha cheers mate, appreciate the kind words as always! Really looking forward to Brighton - we'll be joined by a knowledgable fan who even has a Brighton podcast so it'll be interesting hearing the events of that day in 97 from a different perspective
❤❤❤ love it pal watch a video ❤❤❤ real football days remember this
I've got caught up watching for the last few weeks , not sure how but just wanted to say your doing a fantastic job and I'm bloody falling in love with you haha. That old saying about milkmen is definitely true 🤔 .... Keep it up Ry and thanks
Haha cheers mate 🍻 glad you’re enjoying the videos. Lots more coming up 👍🏾
great vlog ry know a few ex hereford players,always had a bit of a softspot for em cheers mate
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it 🍻
Love this channel I’m from Hereford and live in Leominster and I love Hereford COYW!!!
Awesome! Thank you!
0-0 Nottingham Forest in the league cup in 1994/95 season
Trueee!!! Can’t believe I didn’t mention that 😅 rambled enough!
Loved watching this! And you're spot on, clubs like Hereford need all the support they can get 🐮⚪⚫
Certainly remember that day, being a Brighton supporter it was a heart stopping moment for us!
Next video coming to the channel is on Brighton 😉👍🏾
My local ground, the one and only Edgar Street
Seen some highs & lows over the years
Oh yes was Edgar the mascot for a lovely 3 seasons, had to give it up due to work commitments
@@JAMIE15MEADOWS ohh mate that’s CLASS 🤩
Thank you for the shoutout bro 🎧⚽️. Hope you are well 😎
Only just seen this 🤣 yes brother you too!
Interesting video again visited here a few times never really been a happy hunting ground and often ended up on the receiving end of stick here and I sat near that bolts hut thing one night which felt out the way.
Thanks Rys, as a Brighton fan I really enjoyed that & your honesty re Man Utd. I was there for that draw or bust game (for us). I’m a season tkt holder at the Amex and people talk about this match or that match. When your clubs existence is at question, no other game has ever come close in terms of importance. Really interesting to see the story told from Herefords point of view. Good to see Hereford back on the up.
Glad you enjoyed it mate! Check out the recent Brighton video 🤩
I grew up in Yeovil in the 70s, remember many games against Hereford in the Southern League and the FA Cup always a good punch up before and after the game, happy days😀😀
Hahaha they’re a rowdy bunch 😅🍻
What a great video glad I had a butch its nice to hear about Hereford as my favourite player at my team west ham jarrod bowen come from there and hes an amazing talent to come from that club so from all west ham fans thanks so much. Would you do a jarrod bowen video of someone making it big ⚒
I can feel the history of this ground and team through my computer screen, it's nothing you get at a Premier League ground.
Have to say, thats your best video ive seen to date. At least you got to the last game of the season to find out your fate. Unlike us at donni knew we were down by early new year. How about a video on donni. What with a crook for a chairman. Then a fan who took us to heights we never imagined.
thanks Ian!
In 1997 after we drew 1-1 against you, we got drawn against you in the FA Cup at your place the season after.
It was like a war zone driving into your town, you were after blood that season.
Haha completely forgot about that game, would have been there too… was it getting rowdy then? 😅
A stadium with plenty of history and character 👌🏼 hopefully they can find their way back.
It’s funny you should mention Leicester City and Tranmere. My club, Tranmere, went on to play Leicester in the league cup final, I wonder if it was the same season you played them in the same cup? 👍🏻
possibly... 97/98 season it was :) game would have been in January possibly mid-week
Only plastic fans in prem wont care about this.... Efl down will show respect
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Currently a ball boy at this beautiful club
I went to Edgar Sreet once. 1975-76 season. Hereford 1 Burnley 4 in the League Cup.
was that in the old division 2? or maybe 3 actually
@@RysFootyParadise League Cup. Burnley were in the old first division. They got relegated that season.
@@1990-t1j sorry mate you literally said league cup 🤣 my bad! Do have a soft spot for Burnley
I have been watching them since 1962-63. UTC@@RysFootyParadise
Great video, just to mention though, Radford scored the equaliser, Ricky George scored the winner against Newcastle.
And Brighton didn't win, they drew.
True haha yes 1-1 Vs Brighton I don’t think I said Brighton won did I? 😅
If you go there now the blacfriars end is being demolished and you can see into the ground from the witrose car park
Aaaaaalllllldddddeeeerrrrssssshhhhhhoooottt till I die
7 year old watches Hereford. Becomes Man United fan 😂😂
Great video after great video... Love it! You're becoming one of my favourite youtubers. Cheers mate
Legend, thanks for watching the videos 👍🏾