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Farnborough Town 2 - 1 Hereford United

26th November 1997

What can I say, I didn't attend the match and the only access to information about the game is an article in the mightly "Talking Bull", Hereford United's spendid fanzine.

The author of the article is Mike "GFB" Quarrell, and he spent three pages discussing the journey down there and the events of the night, with only two paragraphs even vaguly relating to game itself.

I understand that Neil Grayson's goal made the entire journey worthwile as he thundered home a shot from all of 25 yards out, into the top corner.

The Farnborough keeper is believed to have asked the United fans if they thought he should have saved the shot as he was going to get a bollocking from the manager anyway.

The Farnborough goals can both be attributed to keeper error, again. The first one was from a cross which DeBont failed to collect when he should have stayed on his line, and the second one also came from a cross where DeBont stayed on his line but should have come out to collect. Hindsight has always had 20:20 vision though.

United also managed to get a player sent off. Craig Mansell was the victim of the red card following two bookable offences. This was however, quite an acheivement, as he had only been brought on as a substitute 5 minutes earlier.

So Hereford finished the match and dropped out of the competition. I would personal prefer to see them drop out of all the competitions in the first round and champion the Conference than see them play at Wembley.