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Occasional contributor Mike Margetts wants yesterday to be the start of something:
In 2008 as Hereford United fans swarmed on to the pitch at Brentford’s Griffin Park to savour the club’s promotion to League One, little could they have imagined that exactly six short years later they would be invading another pitch a few miles to the South West to celebrate mere survival in the Conference Premier.
Such are the ups and downs of football in general and Hereford United in particular.
A few years ago I wrote about the agony and ecstasy of being a Hereford United fan but never thought that I would experience the extremes of both emotions in just sixty seconds of one game on a sunny spring evening in Hampshire.
What a rollercoaster ride it was. And perhaps there is a certain irony in that the losers on this occasion were Chester. As I recall, it was exactly ten years ago that, despite Hereford’s amazing ten match winning streak at the end of the season, the men from Cheshire pipped them by one point to take the Conference title.
Hereford were duly consigned to the play-offs only to lose to of all teams … Aldershot!
They say football is a funny old game but in truth not too many Hereford supporters will have been amused by what has been happening at Edgar Street this season.
Let’s hope that yesterday’s miracle is the catalyst for something much better in 2014/15.
