FA Cup giant-killers: Hereford vs Newcastle, 1972

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The greatest FA Cup game of all time according to many, Hereford’s third-round replay win over Newcastle in 1972 helped build the iconography of the FA Cup in the television era. Locked out fans climbing trees and floodlit pylons to watch, kids sitting behind the goal on hay bales, the pitch invaded three times by a tribe of snorkel parka wearers, Malcolm MacDonald missing sitters and that goal from Ronnie Radford. What more could you ask for?
The mighty Keith Hall of the Talking Bull fanzine - and one of those kids behind the goal back when he was 12 - talks us through the first tie on Tyneside, and what it was like to be in the ground that day, while Sunderland fan Bill Hern revels in Newcastle’s discomfort. Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler are along for the ride, as is, briefly, the late, great John Motson.