First time for Grays Athletic at Edgar Street

Next Saturday will be the first time Grays Athletic have visited Edgar Street for any fixture let alone a Conference game.

The Essex side come to Hereford as current top goalscorers in the league and with just one point less than the Bulls. They put six goals past Gravesend in their first game this season although were held to a 1-1 draw by York City last Saturday.

Below is a liitle information about Grays taken from their Official Website:

Grays Athletic had to wait 115 years to reach the top flight of non-league football, but when the Club did make the grade, it did so in style.

In May 2005, the Club completed a remarkable double of league and FA Trophy success in a season of firsts.

Grays clinched promotion to the Football Conference, becoming the first club to win the newly-inaugurated Conference South league, wrapping up the title by the end of March, scoring 118 goals in the process.

Then, having claimed the scalps of Conference sides Exeter City and Burton Albion on the way, Grays faced Conference North side Hucknall Town in the FA Trophy final at Villa Park. A closely-contested game watched by over 8,000 fans went to extra time and then penalties, where 'keeper Ashley Bayes was the hero saving from Russell Cooke to claim the biggest knockout prize in non-league football.

Grays were the first Club outside of the Football Conference to achieve this league and FA Trophy double.

Elsewhere Grays produced their first non-league internationals, with captain Stuart Thurgood playing two games for Paul Fairclough's England National Game XI and teammates Mitchell Cole and Dennis Oli also getting callups.

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