Work Continues on Complete History of Hereford United

Ron Parrott, with help from Richard Prime, is in the process of writing a new book which will be a complete history of Hereford United. It will not be available for sometime as it covers over 80 years and entails a great deal of research.

Ron has kindly updated Bulls News on the project.

I am in the process of writing the complete history of Hereford United and have already been working on it for over five years and am just about half-way through.

It's a mammoth undertaking but, believe it or not, Richard Prime and myself have managed to get a match report and full team line-ups from every match since 1924.

It won't be a statistically biased book like the last two but rather a month by month, season by season story of events on and off the pitch, complete with a brief match report for every game.

Also included will be a post-war set of pen pictures of every player to have played a first-team game for United (where he came from, how many appearances and goals etc. and details of where he went to)

Hopefully supporters will understand what a massive undertaking it is. I have all the info to hand from old programmes, newspaper reports etc., and it seems a great shame not to share this with the general public.

I'd absolutely love to finish it but realistically, I'm so busy with my work and family that it may not see the light of day until I retire in 3 or 4 years time, when I shall be able to give it the attention it deserves!

Ron Parrott has written two books on Hereford United - The League Era and The Wilderness Years.

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