You can’t beat a bit of Bully – unless it’s Hereford United and those Bulls have beaten us again. But was that always the case? After all, all those red flashes of our home kit could be like a red rag to a, well, y’know. The short answer is “no”. It actually came as a bit of a shock to look back at how many times we ended up playing them over the years. And the idea that our friends from Edgar Street had it all their own way against us is total bullsh…
Our first match against Hereford United came in the FA Cup, but it wasn’t long before we were both competing as equals; the Bulls relegated to the Conference in 1997. For the next nine years, we were adversaries; Boro’ having the pleasure of edging them out of the 2004-5 Nationwide Conference playoffs. They won the race (back) to the League, though. After reuniting in League Two, the Bulls were relegated to non-league once more in 2012.
This time it was permanent; the club suspended by the FA in 2014 and eventually wound up in the High Court. The reason was because the Bulls’ debts had soared to a mammoth £1.3m – and soon the vultures started circling before the High Court stepped in for good.
