The team with the third worst League record in the last thirty years, and the third worst FA Cup record; the second most 'shot-shy' club in League history. These are just some of the outstanding achievements that led one of our contributors to have...
A DREAM of HEREFORD
I dream of Barrow playing Hereford United. Having replaced us in the Football League in 1972, it has been a long wait to get a game with them and prove our superiority. Perhaps one season we might get an FA Cup draw at Hereford? What a tie that would be! After 21 years in the Football League it is a good time to assess Hereford's progress. And what a sorry story it is too, although it didn't begin that way. To rub salt in Barrow's wounds they had a great start in the League. Second in Division Four in their first season and Third Division champions in 1976, it looked as if their election to the League was justified. However, 1977 saw them finish bottom of Division Two and the following year they were relegated back to Division Four where they have remained ever since (even though Division Four is now called Division Three, but you know what I mean!). In 1983 they finished bottom and haven't challenged for promotion since 1985 when they finished fifth. Their record over the past fifteen seasons is far worse than Barrow's last fifteen years in the League - three of which were spent in the Third Division proper. Along with Rochdale, Hereford have the worst record in the Football League. They are also the second most 'shot-shy' League club in history, and the most shot-shy team of those presently in the League. Ironically, since it was their FA Cup giant killing of Newcastle United which gave them prominence and probably led to their being elected in the first place, their FA Cup record is also very poor and they are one of eight clubs which have never progressed beyond the third round of the League Cup. I dream of Barrow playing Hereford United... Clint Wags Issue 018 - December 1993 (reproduced without the damning cuttings from Ian St. John's Book of Soccer Lists)