Stevenage who are on the brink of facing Newcastle never left anything in reserve and took the game to Hereford from the start.

The early minutes saw Andy Quy make a couple of excellent saves from Wordsworth and Neil Trebble as they fought for an early goal which has usually leaves United beaten.

They were justly awared their goal after 20 minutes when Neil Trebble sent an excellent cross to Gary Crawshaw who neatly turned on the ball and drilled it past the diving figure of Andy Quy.

Hereford made a poor attempt at a reply to this but the best they could come up with was when a cross reached Tony Agana which he headed well clear of the bar and a later cross from Richard Leadbeater was sent wide by Neil Grayson.

Stevenage collected their second thanks to a rare mistake from Gavin Mahon who completely mis-judged a backpass which never looked like reaching Quy even if it had been left to its own devices by Crawshaw raced through the defence and never gave Andy Quy as chance as he again drilled his shot into the goal.

Hereford never looked like, nor I hate to say it, deserved even a point from this match.